Regulatory Officer

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

Job summary

A growing chemical distribution business in the UK is seeking a regulatory compliance professional to join their Product Stewardship team. The role involves ensuring compliance of chemical raw materials, particularly for personal care and cosmetic products. Key responsibilities include setting up new raw materials, conducting compliance checks, and preparing Safety Data Sheets (SDS). Ideal candidates will have experience with SDS authoring and knowledge of compliance for personal care products.

Qualifications

• Experience in chemical regulatory compliance is required.
• Knowledge of personal care/cosmetic products and their regulations.
• Ability to prepare Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and labels.

Responsibilities

• Support compliance checks for raw materials.
• Prepare SDSs and labels for chemical products.
• Provide regulatory support and advice to customers.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

SDS authoring

Chemical hazard communication

Compliance checks

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.