Ingredients Governance Manager - Essential Home (12 Month FTC)

Reckitt Benckiser LLC; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consumer goods company is seeking an Ingredients Governance Manager to lead regulatory advocacy efforts globally. This role offers the opportunity to manage strategic regulatory initiatives and engage with industry associations, ensuring compliance and safety for products. Applicants should hold a scientific degree and have at least 10 years of regulatory experience, alongside strong project management skills. Competitive benefits and opportunities for personal growth are offered.

Benefits

Parental benefits

Employee Assistance Program

Life insurance

Global share plans

Short-term incentives

Qualifications

• Educated to honours degree level in a scientific field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 10 years of regulatory experience.
• Strong skillsets and experience in project management are highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver advocacy strategies for EH policy priorities.
• Develop and execute advocacy strategies for EH RAS Policy Priorities.
• Ensure accuracy in impact assessment of external regulatory changes.

Skills

Portfolio Management

Commercial Awareness

Collaboration

Project Management

Adaptability

Communication Skills

Education

Honours degree in a scientific field

Job description

Ingredients Governance Manager - Essential Home (12 Month FTC)

City: Kingston upon Hull

With a trusted portfolio of world‑class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make a House Your Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented. With high‑quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

Research & Development

In Research and Development, we’re full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals – all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. We continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you’ll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

This role offers an exciting opportunity to be the Regulatory Advocacy lead on API legislation and scrutiny globally, combining with providing Management leadership for Regulatory Intelligence (RI) – one of the core Regulatory capabilities critical to Eessential Home business.

Your role will be to develop the EH position and external advocacy strategy, by anticipating and responding to (i) new/revised legislation proposals impacting our medicines and APIs, and (ii) Regulator/NGO/HCP/Academic scrutiny of API safety (human and environmental), that can lead onto changes in legislation, industry guidelines and/or HCP and consumer trust.

You will need to be able to quickly evaluate the potential impact on EH products, by working closely RAS Category Leads and x‑functional partners, for currently marketed products, as well as the ongoing and future product innovations. You will also help x‑functional teams (e.g. Pods) with scenario planning (possible routes of regulation) to aid choice of APIs and route‑to‑market strategies.

External Regulatory & Safety thought leadership in our industry gives EH a strategic and competitive advantage. You will represent EH in industry associations, for which you can provide the necessary expertise, and/or request the support of the appropriate SME from EH.

This role will prioritise and set strategic regulatory advocacy direction, partner with RAS BU Strategy Leads, RAS Regional/Area Head, R&D Category & Operations leaders, Group Sustainability and Global Government Affairs and Public Affairs Leaders, as well as lead cross‑functional, cross‑BU Advocacy Task Forces.

Next to that, this role will provide end to end project leadership to enable the close monitoring, accurate assessment and timely implementation of external regulatory changes that can present opportunities and/or risks to all of the EH categories.

Your responsibilities

• This position plays an essential role in leading and delivering advocacy strategies for EH policy priorities, and in building new regulatory capabilities:
  • Develop and execute advocacy strategies for EH RAS Policy Priorities.
  • Develop Global advocacy strategies in partnership RAS Category Strategy and IMEX teams.
  • Lead x‑functional advocacy task forces.
  • Participate in Category POD teams on relevant projects.
  • Influence external stakeholders and policy makers through compelling and well‑defined advocacy strategies, to fight for proportionate regulation, based on robust and risk‑based science.
  • Ensure Policy Priority Heatmaps, Summary Sheets, Position Papers and Advocacy Masterplans are in place for all policy priorities, as well as readily available to all RAS IMEX teams.
  • Lead ISG to develop and execute advocacy strategies on EH APIs.
  • Coordinating to ensure that the appropriate SMEs are included in Category PODs, and representing EH in industry association committees, to influence and build credibility externally, in line with business strategies.
  • Become a trainer for the ‘Advocacy Fundamentals Training Programme’ developed by our team, develop and maintain up‑to‑date advocacy toolkits, facilitate cross‑country / regional best practices and ensure compliance to relevant, internal processes/SOPs.
• Provide management leadership and work closely within the wider Regulatory, Quality, R&D, Supply and Commercial functions to ensure accurate impact‑assessment of external regulatory changes, and timely implementation of those changes
• Be accountable to establish robust tracking processes, systems and fit‑for‑purpose KPIs that will effectively and efficiently facilitate the impact assessment and implementation of external regulatory changes by the cross functional teams.

The experience we’re looking for

• Educated to honours degree level in a scientific field or equivalent experience
• Minimum 10 years of regulatory experience
• A solid track record of Regulatory Affairs experience with strategic and operational regulatory experience
• Strong skillsets and experience in project management are highly desirable
• Able to manage multiple activities simultaneously whilst maintaining good quality of work and achieve deadlines.
• Good attention to detail, with excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to digest and translate regulatory/technical requirements for the business.

The skills for success

Portfolio Management, Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Collaborator, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Business Strategy, Objective Setting, Consumer Needs, Change Leadership, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Creative Direction, Business Accumen, Relationship Management.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short‑term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.