Regulatory Officer

VRS Regulatory; Remote; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing chemical distribution business is seeking a regulatory compliance professional to support its Product Stewardship team. This diverse role focuses on ensuring compliance of chemical raw materials for the personal care and cosmetics market, including preparing Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and conducting compliance checks. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of CLP and REACH regulations along with experience in SDS authoring and labelling. Strong understanding of regulatory requirements in personal care products is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience with chemical regulatory compliance, particularly in personal care and cosmetics.
• Knowledge of CLP and REACH regulations.
• Proven ability to conduct compliance checks and prepare relevant documentation.

Responsibilities

• Provide regulatory and compliance support for chemical raw materials.
• Ensure compliance of raw materials under chemical regulations.
• Prepare Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and labels.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

Chemical hazard communication

SDS authoring

Cosmetics knowledge

Compliance checks

Labelling

Supplier liaison

Job description

A rare opportunity to join the Product Stewardship team of a growing chemical distribution business.

Your role will be to provide regulatory and compliance support on a range of chemical raw materials with a focus on provision of expertise to the personal care / cosmetics market.

This will be a varied role supporting a wide portfolio of chemical raw materials / ingredients with a focus on supporting the personal care / cosmetic market. This will entail ensuring the raw materials are compliant under chemical regulations (CLP and REACH) but also their compliance for use in personal care and cosmetic products.

Duties will include:

• setting up new raw materials/suppliers
• compliance checks
• preparing SDSs and labels
• checking classifications

You will then provide support to customers, advice of compliance of ingredients/raw materials, completion of new material/customer questionnaires and research/impact assess regulatory developments relevant to the personal care/cosmetic market.

This role would be ideal for a chemical regulatory professional who has experience with chemical hazard communication (SDS authoring, labels etc). We are looking for a candidate with some existing chemical regulatory experience (SDS authoring, classifications, labelling etc).

It is essential that you have knowledge / experience with personal care / cosmetic products and insight into the compliance of raw materials for these categories of end products.

Key Skills: Regulatory compliance, chemicals,CLP, REACH, personal care, cosmetics, compliance, labelling, compliance checks, supplier liaison, questionnaires, regulatory support, hazard communication, SDS authoring, labelling hazard classification, dangerous goods/transport.

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.