Home Care Regulatory Affairs Manager, Unilever Professional

Unilever; Wirral; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consumer goods company is seeking a Home Care Regulatory Affairs Manager to lead the regulatory strategy and innovation for Home Care Professional products. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in regulatory requirements and a proven track record in stakeholder management, with excellent communication skills. This role offers competitive salary, bonuses, hybrid working, and a focus on wellbeing in the workplace.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual bonus

Subsidised gym membership

Discounted staff shop

Share options

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Significant experience in regulatory requirements for Professional Home Care industry.
• Experience in product development and obtaining registrations in various regions.
• Proven track record in regulatory affairs and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead regulatory strategy for HC Unilever Professional innovation.
• Provide global regulatory guidance and maintain product dossiers.
• Support local teams with regulatory authority inquiries.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Strategic influencing

Regulatory strategy development

Communication skills

Education

BS degree in Biological Science, Toxicology, Environmental Science or Chemistry

MS or PhD preferred

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Home Care Regulatory Affairs Manager, Unilever Professional

Function R&D

Reporting to Regulatory Lead, Global UPro

Scope Global

Location: Port Sunlight

Work-Level: 2A

JOB PURPOSE

Acts as regulatory first point of contact for the HC Unilever Professional (UPro) organization. Leads the regulatory strategy, organisation and guidance for HC Unilever Professional (UPro) innovation, advocacy, and compliance programmes together with any relevant new technology programmes.

Responsibilities

• Ensures the regulatory input to the HC Unilever Professional innovation projects
• Deliver day-to-day strategic regulatory guidance, assessments, and operational inputs to the UPro innovation projects and future technologies on time in full at a global level plus for the key countries in which the products are to be marketed.
• Is an expert on worldwide regulations governing Home Care products in general plus global regulatory developments which impact professional Home Care products, and through strong strategic influencing skills, ensures that these developments are incorporated into the HC Unilever Professional innovation programme.
• Together with Unilever Regulatory colleagues, defines and oversees the building and maintenance of the global HC Unilever Professional product dossiers.
• Creates & maintains the relevant global HC professional regulatory affairs network
• Monitors regulatory activities and challenges in markets.
• Prepare global regulatory summaries for specific product areas.
• Maintain information-sharing systems to ensure access and alignment on regulatory topics across the category and in the regulatory affairs capability.
• Provide expertise to support local teams to respond effectively and with speed to Regulatory Authority questions on product registrations.
• Manages regulatory affairs for HC Unilever Professional: Deliver global regulatory updates on legislation affecting the category and give training as required.
• Deliver global coordination of the Unilever positions in the face of new regulations or amendments in regulations in local markets.
• Be the global regulatory expert in the HC professional claims, including developing claims guidelines by working with scientific writers, Legal, CTI, GDC/S&T to build robust substantiation to enable the landing of claims in local markets.
• Provide regulatory input to the management of globally relevant issues and opportunities.
• Be an issue leader of topics related to HC professional and anticipate regulatory challenges for the future, which may drive the external influencing agenda for the category.
• Execute regulatory risk assessments and participate in stress tests.
• Provide regulatory input in case of mergers and acquisitions.

Advocacy

• Manages and/or supports HC Unilever Professional advocacy topics: Ensure HC Professional needs are inputted into the wider Home Care advocacy plan with assigned key topics.
• Be a Regulatory leader for specific key topics by ensuring objective setting, delivery of plans, managing communications cross-functionally, stakeholder management etc.
• Represent Unilever externally for specific advocacy topics if required.
• Monitor the external and internal environment to identify threats/opportunities and communicates with impact to stakeholders.

All About You

Key interfaces

Category R&D and Brand Development teams delivering HC Unilever Professional innovations, Regulatory Lead for Global UPro, Head of Home Care Regulatory Affairs and full Home Care Regulatory Affairs team, Global Regulatory Affairs leadership team, External Affairs, Corporate Communications, Legal, Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre and external supply partners.

Education :

Minimum BS degree, preferably an MS or PhD in Biological Science, Toxicology, Environmental Science or Chemistry or equivalent.

Experience :

Significant experience of the regulatory requirements that govern the Professional Home Care industry, preferably globally, and preferably with experience in the product development area. Experience in obtaining any necessary product or active substance registrations in one or more regions.

Ability to work with external consultants in different markets to deliver the regulatory strategies for the Unilever Professional business.

A proven track record in supporting the development, research, and regulatory affairs functions and preferably experience of working in an external environment (such as trade associations, Regulatory Authorities, etc.).

Extensive experience of successful stakeholder management, with excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, are essential, together with extensive strategic influencing skills.

Willingness to continually embrace personal and professional development.

Notes

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together for better business performance. We want to push boundaries, and have the flexibility needed to keep adapting in an ever-changing, more dynamic world. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.

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