Director of Regulatory Affairs

VRS Recruitment; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in regulatory affairs seeks a strategic leader for a pivotal role in the rapidly growing market for sustainable ingredients. The position focuses on shaping global regulatory strategies, driving regulatory compliance, and mentoring a talented regulatory team. Candidates should possess a deep understanding of complex regulations, strong communication skills, and a passion for sustainability. This role offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to make a significant impact in a global growth area.

Benefits

Up to 20% bonus

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of complex regulations in regulated product areas.
• Ideally have a background in regulatory affairs, preferably chemicals or agrochemicals.
• Ability to connect detailed regulatory requirements with business opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Shape global regulatory strategy to translate regulatory requirements into business opportunities.
• Drive authorisations and oversee global registrations and compliance.
• Lead and mentor the regulatory team, recruiting and developing talent.
• Provide expert regulatory insights to support customer partnerships.
• Protect regulatory data to maintain market access.

Skills

Strategy

Creativity

Communication

Persuasion

Leadership

Regulatory affairs

Regulatory management

Product registrations

Compliance

Passion for sustainable products

Job description

Very flexible UK or EU location, Home Based

£80-120,000 + bens + up to 20% bonus

Description

A unique opportunity to take a key role on the leadership team of a highly successful and award-winning developer of naturally sourced, sustainable ingredients for regulated consumer products. They are the leader in their field, the market is exploding, this position will be paramount to this regulatory centric business’ continued global growth.

The company prides itself on the ability to intelligently and creatively navigate the regulatory landscape creating huge competitive advantage. This role will play a lead in safeguarding the business, accelerating customer adoption and defending and further extending their position as world leader in their field of sustainable ingredients.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Shape global regulatory strategy by translating complex regulatory requirements into clear business opportunities and guiding management and customers.
• Drive authorisations by overseeing global registrations and relationships with authorities to ensure approvals and compliance.
• Lead and grow the regulatory team by mentoring staff with positive inspiration, developing their skills, recruiting new talent and overseeing external experts.
• Support customers by providing expert regulatory insight that strengthens partnerships and identifies new market opportunities.
• Protect and leverage company regulatory data to defend and extend market access.

The Person

We are looking for a driven strategic thinker who has an enquiring and creative approach. You must have a deep understanding of complex regulations; this could be agrochemical (PPP), chemicals (REACH), biocides or pharmaceutical. You must have the rare ability to be able to deep dive into detail AND take a big picture view – connecting the dots to deliver solutions to complex hurdles is key to this role. You will be an engaging communicator who can persuasively advise and influence colleagues, customers and regulators. You must be an inspiring leader who enjoys developing and leading from the front.

You will have a background in regulatory affairs, ideally chemical but any regulated product area will be considered; there will be a long and structured hand-over period in which you can build deep expertise in the specific regulations and products.

Key Skills

• Strategy
• Creativity
• Communication
• Persuasion
• Leadership
• Regulatory affairs
• Regulatory management
• Product registrations
• Compliance
• Passion for sustainable products

VRS Regulatory is the Regulatory Affairs and Risk Assessment division of specialist scientific recruiter VRS . We focus on recruitment in Regulatory Affairs, Registrations, REACH, CLP, SDS Authoring, Product Safety, Compliance, Risk Assessment, Regulatory Toxicology, Regulatory Ecotoxicology and Environmental Fate in the chemicals, agrochemicals and biocides sectors.