Product Compliance Specialist – Formulated products

Eurofins; Northampton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Eurofins is seeking a Product Compliance Specialist for formulated products to ensure regulatory, environmental and quality standards across cosmetics, air care, household care and medicines. You will manage product approval timelines, review technical docs and artwork, and provide expert regulatory guidance to clients and teams.

The role involves interpreting evolving UK/EU regulations, translating them into practical guidance, and collaborating with product lifecycle, QA, and supplier teams to

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline (e.g. toxicology, biochemistry, pharmacy, chemistry).
• Experience in regulatory roles covering formulated products across multiple categories (cosmetics/personal care, detergents, air care or medicines).
• Strong knowledge of UK/EU regulatory frameworks (Cosmetics, Detergents, CLP), with medicinal exposure desirable.
• Experience reviewing packaging, labelling and technical docs.
• Understanding manufacturing processes and production environments.

Responsibilities

• Own formulated product area to meet business and client needs for cosmetics and personal care, air care, detergents and medicines.
• Ensure compliance of products to regulatory/retail requirements and manage the approval process to launch.
• Review and approve technical specifications, artwork, packaging and labelling.
• Maintain accurate records on the critical path and document control in PLM systems.
• Provide regulatory horizon scanning, translate updates into actionable guidance for clients and teams.

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation review

Project management

Education

Degree in chemistry/pharmacology/biology

Tools

PLM software

Job description

Product Compliance Specialist - Formulated products

• Full-time

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Eurofins|BLC is a small but growing business specialising in testing and consulting and operates within the Eurofins Softlines and Leather division. Established for over 100 years specialising in leather, consumer and chemicals we have the technical pedigree and experience to provide targeted, testing and consulting solutions up and down the supply chain.

In 2025, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 7.296 billion, and has been the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role

The Role:

The Product Compliance Specialist will play a key role within our Retail Solution Centre in ensuring that all retailer products, their packaging, labelling, artwork and documentations meet applicable regulatory, environmental, and quality standards.

The role supports the full product approval process, ensuring alignment to critical path timelines through to product launch. Working cross-functionally with clients and suppliers, the specialist will ensure that all aspects of products comply with relevant requirements, providing expert guidance and technical support.

In addition, the role contributes to regulatory insight activities by interpreting and contextualising evolving regulatory requirements, supporting the translation of regulatory developments into clear, actionable guidance to enable proactive compliance across product categories.

Product Compliance & Approval

• To take ownership of the formulated product area of responsibility to meet our business and client needs - covering formulated goods across cosmetics and personal care (health & beauty), air care, household cleaning/detergents and medicines
• Ensuring compliance of product to specific regulatory and retail requirements.
• Product approval process - responsible for meeting Critical Path deadlines through the approval process to launch.
• Review and approve technical specifications and relevant documents.
• Review and approve product artwork, packaging, and labelling to ensure compliance with regional and product specific regulatory and retail requirements.
• Ensure products are legally compliant and fit for purpose.
• Maintain product status on the critical path and keep detailed accurate records of all communications in an orderly fashion.
• Working with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software for all products critical path and document control.

Regulatory Horizon Scanning & Advisory

• Support regulatory horizon scanning activities to identify relevant legislative developments impacting formulated products and associated consumer goods categories.
• Monitor selected UK, EU, and international regulatory updates, alongside insights provided by the wider Eurofins global regulatory network.
• Review, interpret, and contextualise regulatory changes to ensure relevance and applicability to client product ranges and business operations.
• Translate regulatory intelligence into clear, practical guidance tailored to client and internal team needs.
• Contribute to the development and enhancement of regulatory update reports, ensuring information is accurate, relevant, and actionable.
• Support communication of key regulatory developments through briefings, summaries, and stakeholder discussions.
• Collaborate with Product Compliance, Quality, and global regulatory teams to ensure alignment with current and emerging requirements.

Stakeholder Communication & Collaboration

• Communication to external stakeholders including technical and regulatory guidance, critical path deadlines, product and documentation non-compliances and supplier monitoring.
• Build positive and effective relationships with Quality Assurance, Buying teams and suppliers.
• Attend retailer meetings as and when required either face to face or virtually using teams.
• Support continuous improvement of compliance processes and systems.
• Any other reasonable task requested to support the business.

What We Are Looking For:

• Ideally degree level qualification (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline e.g. toxicology, biochemistry, pharmacy, chemistry.
• Experience in a regulatory role covering formulated products across at least two categories, such as cosmetics/personal care (health & beauty), household cleaning/detergents, air care or medicinal products.
• Strong working knowledge of UK and EU regulatory frameworks, including Cosmetics, Detergents and CLP Regulations, with exposure to medicinal regulatory requirements desirable.
• Experience reviewing and approving packaging, labelling, artwork and technical documentation
• Understanding manufacturing processes and production environments.
• Experience in regulatory horizon scanning, impact assessment, and stakeholder communication is highly desirable.
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex regulations into actionable requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive, resilient, and positive approach with strong team collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with a "can-do" attitude.
• Ability to travel to client sites across the country (pool car provided