URGENT HIRING: REGULATORY AFFAIRS OFFICER / QUALIFIED PERSON – FDA & PRODUCT COMPLIANCE (COSMETICS & PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS)
Location: Camarines Sur, Bicol Region
Product: Cosmetics & Pharmaceutical Products (bar soaps, etc)
We are looking for a Regulatory Affairs Officer / Regulatory Pharmacist who can take charge of our Philippine FDA regulatory requirements and help bring cosmetics products to market faster—while ensuring everything we launch stays compliant.
If you know your way around FDA product registration, CPNs, LTOs, product labels, claims, and regulatory documentation, we’d love to meet you.
Key Responsibilities:
Philippine FDA Regulatory Affairs
- Handle end-to-end FDA Certificate of Product Notification (CPN) applications for cosmetics products
- Manage new registrations, renewals, amendments, and variations
- Assist in maintaining and renewing the company’s FDA License to Operate (LTO)
- Prepare, organize, review, and submit regulatory dossiers and supporting documents
- Manage applications and follow-ups through applicable FDA online/eServices systems
- Communicate and coordinate with the Philippine FDA regarding applications, deficiencies, clarifications, and compliance matters
- Maintain an organized regulatory tracker for all our products, including registration status, expiration dates, renewals, and pending requirements
Product & Label Compliance
- Review product formulations and ingredients before commercialization to identify potential regulatory issues
- Review labels, packaging, nutrition information, ingredient declarations, warnings, and mandatory statements
- Evaluate marketing and product claims to ensure they are compliant with Philippine FDA requirements
- Flag ingredients, dosages, claims, or formulations that may create registration issues before products enter production
Compliance & Regulatory Intelligence
- Keep the company updated on new and changing Philippine FDA regulations, circulars, administrative orders, and requirements.
- Help prepare the company for FDA inspections and post-market surveillance activities
- Maintain complete and audit-ready regulatory records
- Identify potential compliance risks before they become problems
- Recommend improvements to our internal regulatory processes as the company and product portfolio grow
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy, Chemistry, Microbiology, Biology, Chemical Engineering, or another relevant food/science-related course
- A valid Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) ID is strictly mandatory for the designated company Qualified Person.
- Certificates of attendance to seminars, trainings, and development activities.
- Ideally 1-2+ years of Regulatory Affairs experience in cosmetics products (bar soaps). Fresh graduate welcome to apply.
- **Strong**Hands-on Philippine FDA experience is highly preferred
- Experience preparing and submitting CPN and/or LTO applications
- Familiarity with Philippine FDA requirements for cosmetics
- Strong understanding of product labeling and health claims
- Highly organized and comfortable managing multiple SKUs, deadlines, and applications simultaneously
- Strong written communication and documentation skills
- Detail-oriented—you’re the type of person who notices the one incorrect word on a label before 50,000 units get printed