Regulatory Affairs Assistant Manager PC and BW - Unilever International

Business Context:

Unilever International is Unilever’s White Space Arm!  of Unilever. With a TO of €1.4 billion it is 6th largest, most profitable, among fastest growing (Double digit USG) business for Unilever.

UI works across the world to fill white spaces for Unilever. As intrapreneurs, we introduce Unilever’s brands into white space geographies like Korea, Pacific Islands, Mongolia, and spearhead launches of iconic household brands like Dove, Lifebuoy, Sunlight, Glow & Lovely, TRESemme into big markets like U.S, China, Western Europe, and SEAA.   

As Unilever’s growth engine, we establish global white space businesses in key channels such as Health & Beauty, Discounters, E-Commerce, and alternate channels such as travel retail, marketing to institutional partners like the United Nations, and seeding Unilever brands to overseas diaspora who crave for a taste of their familiar home brands.   

Singapore is our global hub leading strategy, marketing thinking, seeding plans, and alignment with the global categories and supply chain. We have global presence and UI hubs all over the world. R&D is spread across India (Mumbai, Bangalore and Gurgaon), Korea, Europe and USA.

SPEED is the mantra for our resounding success. To serve the underserved, we embrace a founder’s mentality, explore unchartered territories, redesign end-to-end business models to establish successful businesses. We make a difference by deeply caring for our consumers, customers and talents, focusing on that really matters, think ahead in time and work to win together.

Unilever International (UI) as part of Unilever is committed to ensure that our products are fully compliant with local legislations across the globe and meets Unilever’s own high internal standards as well as with the technical aspects of legislation. UI Regulatory Affairs team leads this mandate and supports the entire Unilever International portfolio across the globe, dealing with a wide variety in compliance activities and interacts with across functions in Unilever. This role will manage regulatory & product compliance requirements for UI portfolio and innovation projects across Europe, UK and Middel East for PC & BW.  For regulatory advocacy and expertise, this role will work with Unilever Regulatory Affairs community as well as with external Regulatory Experts in all clusters.

Job Requirements

• To design and maintains processes to support UI business in product compliance assurance for PC & BW products in Europe, UK and Middle East.
• To builds & maintains a strong network of global contacts in R&D, Marketing, Supply Chain, Legal, SERS, etc., to facilitate assurance of product compliance for UI
• To work with external experts, create of an eco-system of RPs (Regulatory Partners i.e. regulatory consultants), & continuously monitor their performance for Europe and UK
• Manage REACH regulation for UI products in EU, UK & Turkey.
• Co-ordinate and ensure compliance of existing portfolio of UI products, affected by new regulation changes in a geography.
• Act as first point of contact for any regulatory queries for PC & BW products for UI Europe, UK and Middle East teams.
• To be digitally salient to embrace and incorporate digital processes for Regulatory Affairs.

Key requirements for the Job

• Fully operational knowledge in RA for cosmetics in Europe, UK and Middle East region.
• Working knowledge of R&D operations: formulations, products, Raw materials, etc.,
• Strong ability to design processes and to spread best practice
• Strong Business acumen, agility & personal mastery.
• Independent problem-solving personality, that can delegate up and down and works well with multi-functional teams
• Excellent communicator, who can engage senior leaders and enthuse operational teams
• Be able to work flexibly and agile
• Fluent in English and preferably also fluent in few other major European languages.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree/ master’s degree in engineering / science / related disciplines
• 5-7 years of experience on handing cosmetics regulations in a region / category
• Excellence verbal/written communication skills in English is a must
• Being multilingual is highly desirable & ability to work with people across cultures
• Multi-tasking ability & ability to work independently with Cross-functional team members
• A person with strong business understanding will be preferred
• Having working knowledge on majority of the Unilever digital tools will be an advantage.
• Travelling will be required (<10%)

Are you ready for a new adventure and an experience of your lifetime?

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