Compliance Delivery Lead

Spirax-Sarco Ltd.; Redruth; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Generous holiday allowance

Volunteering leave

Group Inclusion Plan

Job summary

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, is seeking a Compliance Delivery Lead to drive regulatory data collection, validation and submission for product approvals. You will coordinate with Engineering, GRV, Supply and Manufacturing, and manage external certification bodies to ensure timely, compliant product listings.

You will partner with the Indian Engineering Hub to align processes, use PLM data, and oversee certification activities, while applying knowledge of

Qualifications

• Structured approach to compliance, data analysis and data quality.
• Ability to collaborate across functions and disciplines.
• Result-oriented focus on service, quality and cost.
• Knowledge of Directives, Regulations and Standards for peristaltic pumps.

Responsibilities

• Regulatory Database Oversight: maintain integrity of compliance data and external standards database.
• Delivery readiness: ensure inputs are complete and aligned before third-party certification; coordinate testing timelines.
• Communication: liaise with third party certification bodies and technical leads for clear, timely updates.
• Technical: work with engineers and GRV to understand standards and evidence; engage external consultants when needed.
• Delivery Leadership: plan compliance initiatives with stakeholders and manage sequencing, priorities, and resources.
• Data gathering and analysis: collect, review, and QA data for submission to third parties; resolve queries.
• Risk assessment and mitigation: identify risks and propose contingency plans.
• Process improvement: stay informed on compliance trends and optimise processes.

Skills

Systematic Thinking

Collaboration

Results Orientation

Technical Acumen

Customer-Focused Mindset

Job description

Job Title: Compliance Delivery Lead
Location: WMFTS UK - UK - Cardrew Industrial Estate, Cornwall
Location Type: Hybrid
Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/
Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is part of SpiraxGroup, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Groupwith expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermalsolutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

When you join us, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouragingteam, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoinggrowth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit ourwebsite to learn more.

The Compliance Delivery Lead is responsible for collating,checking and submitting data on the company’s products to ensure that they canbe certified to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. They will workwith the Engineering, GRV, Supply, and Manufacturing teams to ensure compliancewith all relevant rules and regulations. The Compliance Delivery lead will workwith third party compliance certification providers, test houses, componentsuppliers and Engineers to achieve product approvals. They will create andmaintain the compliance data required for products within the WMFTS RegulatoryDatabase (held within the PLM), including raising orders to allow externalcertification tests to be completed on their renewal dates. This role will alsoact as the key contact point for the Indian Engineering Hub compliance deliveryengineers, coordinating their activities and ensuring they follow processes,utilise the correct business tools and deliver in line with the required qualitylevels in the timeframes required.

Key Responsibilities:

Key accountabilities include:

• RegulatoryDatabase Oversight: Manage the ongoing integrity of the compliance datawithin the regulatory database, ensuring that the compliance data held is up todate and surfaced within the business to the correct stakeholders. Maintain theexternal standards database, (BSI), investigating and adding new standards asrequired to build the knowledge of the business.
• DeliveryReadiness: Ensure all compliancecertification delivery‑critical inputs are complete, clear, and aligned withbusiness priorities before third party certification begins. Ensure externaltest activities required for certification are sequenced and delivered in timeto support certification and that compliance data maturity aligns with deliveryneeds.
• Communication and Collaboration Act as the primary liaison between third partycertification parties during submission of products to list and when updatinglisting reports, ensuring clear communication, compliance and testingclarification, and rapid alignment with technical leads on decisions needed tomaintain delivery momentum.
• Technical: Work closely with engineers, technical leads andGRV to understand the applicable standards and the evidence needed to supportcompliance to said standards. Where necessary, work with external consultantsto build a better understanding of directives and standards, including country &regional specific standards, and on how they should be applied to components/sub-systemswithin products and the finished products themselves.
  Ensure that standards are being applied appropriately, consistently and theevidence required can be realistically achieved.
• Delivery Leadershipand Accountability: Collaboratewith Engineering and wider project stakeholders to define and plan complianceinitiatives, ensuring scope, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and cost/effortare understood and that delivery commitments are realistically shaped andaligned with business needs.
  Work with engineering management to adjust sequencing,priorities, and resources to maintain delivery flow when faced with cross‑functionalconstraints or changing business needs.
• Data Gathering andAnalysis: Collaborate withstakeholders to understand compliance needs and documentation evidence requiredfor certification; working with engineers, suppliers, GRV, manufacturing andtest houses.
  Collect,collate, review and quality assure data prior to submission to third partiesand collaborate with third parties when queries arise to find solutions thatalign with business requirements as well as compliance requirements
• Risk Assessment andMitigation:
  Identify potential risks and challenges in compliancedelivery and work proactively to mitigate these risks with help from theProject Team.
  Provide recommendations for risk management and contingency planning.
• ProcessImprovement: Stay informedabout compliance trends, best practices, and emerging technologies.
  Recommend process improvements and optimisations to enhance efficiency andeffectiveness.

Skills/Experience:

• Systematic Thinking: Approaching problems and solutions with structured analysis; ensuring all aspects of compliance, data analysis, data assurance, data consistency and data flow are considered within the context of business delivery, business value and compliance delivery.
  Collaboration: Working effectively across functions and disciplines, building relationships that enhance project outcomes and team effectiveness.
• Results Orientation – Focussing relentlessly on the outcome of our actions and how that improves the business performance in terms of service, quality and cost.
• Technical Acumen: Ability to apply and maintain compliance knowledge, specifically the Directives, Regulations and Standards applicable to Peristaltic pumps. Stays abreast of the global alignment of standards and national deviations applicable to WMFTS products, especially Peristaltic Pumps. Can understand complex technical designs and solutions and how applicable compliance link to said designs and solutions.
• Customer-Focused Mindset: Maintaining a service-oriented approach, ensuring the needs of internal users are understood and addressed.

At Watson-Marlow, we believe in takingcare of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package,including:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible working arrangements
• A generous holiday allowance
• Three days’ paid volunteering leave
• Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included GroupInclusion Plan

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive andequitable working cultures where everyone is themselves and achieve theirfull potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationshipswhere everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and culturalbackgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities,neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything elsethat makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we willalways consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so wehave introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group InclusionCommitments. These include

• Gender-neutral parental leave
• 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave
• Paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss ordomestic abuse
• Menopause-friendly workplace principles and more

Learn more at spiraxgroup.com/inclusion.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. Ifyou would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in ourapplication form.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusiveand diverse workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds toapply.

If you require accommodations during the application process, please let usknow.

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, we aredriven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplacewhere everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader inmanufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies forthe life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products,including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-useapplications.

Our shared Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholdersas we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Ourtechnologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes andindustrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage,Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors andHealthcare. With customers in 116 countries, we provide the solutions thatsit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beansto mobile phones!

Our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions andinspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to maketheir difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers,our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environmentwhere everyone feels included.