Regulatory & Compliance Manager

Red Boot Beverage; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Simple IRA

Simple IRA matching

Dental insurance

Flexible spending account

Health insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Job summary

Red Boot Beverage seeks a Compliance & Regulatory Manager to lead federal excise tax and TTB reporting across our beverage manufacturing and co-packing operations. You will serve as the internal expert for regulatory requirements, permits, and policy development, ensuring adherence and accurate recordkeeping.

You will manage regulatory audits, calendar filings, and cross-functional training while maintaining audit-ready documentation and a strong safety culture.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Regulatory Affairs, Business, Accounting, Finance, Food Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of regulatory, compliance, alcohol beverage manufacturing, or related experience.
• Experience with TTB reporting, recordkeeping, and federal excise tax reporting.
• Ability to interpret regulations and translate requirements into practical processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the TTB and alcohol beverage regulatory compliance program, ensuring obligations are fulfilled.
• Manage TTB reporting, regulatory submissions, recordkeeping, and federal excise tax reporting.
• Oversee reconciliation of production, inventory, transfers, losses, and removals for regulatory records.
• Own the regulatory compliance calendar and ensure filings and renewals are completed on time.
• Manage TTB permits, registrations, formulas, COLAs, and other regulatory requirements.
• Establish and maintain compliance policies, SOPs, controls, and audit-ready records.
• Clarify regulatory responsibilities among company, brand owners, customers, and others.
• Lead responses to TTB audits, inspections, inquiries, and regulatory interactions.
• Monitor regulatory developments and implement policy changes across systems and processes.
• Develop and deliver regulatory training and guidance to employees and cross-functional teams.
• Establish metrics and reporting to monitor compliance performance and risk.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

TTB reporting

Document control

Audit readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Regulatory Affairs, Business, Accounting, Finance, Food Science, or related field

Job description

On-site | Full-Time | U.S. Work Authorization Required

Position Summary

The Compliance & Regulatory Manager is responsible for managing and supporting regulatory compliance across the company's alcohol beverage manufacturing and co-packing operations. This role serves as the internal subject-matter expert for TTB requirements, regulatory reporting, recordkeeping, federal excise tax, product approvals, permits, and related compliance activities.

Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodation, and perform other duties as assigned.

• Lead the company's TTB and alcohol beverage regulatory compliance program, ensuring regulatory obligations are accurately interpreted, documented, and fulfilled.
• Manage TTB reporting, regulatory submissions, recordkeeping, and compliance requirements, including operational reports and federal excise tax reporting.
• Oversee reconciliation of production, inventory, transfers, losses, removals, and other regulated activities to ensure accurate and complete regulatory records.
• Own the company's regulatory compliance calendar and ensure required filings, renewals, approvals, and other obligations are completed accurately and on time.
• Manage TTB permits, registrations, formulas, COLAs, and other applicable product and operational regulatory requirements.
• Establish and maintain compliance policies, SOPs, controls, documentation, and audit-ready records.
• Ensure regulatory responsibilities between the company, brand owners, customers, and other parties are clearly defined and appropriately documented.
• Lead responses to TTB audits, inspections, inquiries, and other regulatory interactions.
• Monitor regulatory developments and lead implementation of changes to policies, procedures, systems, and business processes.
• Develop and deliver regulatory training and guidance to employees and cross-functional teams.
• Establish metrics and reporting to monitor compliance performance, identify trends, and communicate significant risks or issues to leadership.
• Meets all Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Safe Quality Food (SQF) requirements; participates in food safety meetings as required.
• Cultivates and promotes a strong safety culture and follows all safety policies, procedures, and regulations; identifies and communicates workplace hazards and corrects or seeks assistance in correcting unsafe actions or conditions; participates in safety meetings as required.

Note: This job description is not exhaustive and may evolve over time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Regulatory Affairs, Business, Accounting, Finance, Food Science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 5+ years of relevant regulatory, compliance, alcohol beverage manufacturing, or related experience.
• Experience with TTB operational reporting, recordkeeping, and/or federal excise tax reporting.
• Strong understanding of the relationship between manufacturing operations, inventory, production records, removals, transfers, and regulatory reporting.
• Ability to interpret regulations and translate requirements into practical business processes.

Work Expectations

• This is a regular, full-time position with daily office hours onsite.
• The ability to be available for work daily and extended hours as necessary.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk andlisten.
• This position requires long periods sitting/working at a computer, standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing.
• The employee should be able to lift and/or move items up to 20 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Why Join Red Boot Beverage

Join Red Boot Beverage and play a key role in building and strengthening compliance programs that support our growing beverage manufacturing and co-packing operations. You’ll have meaningful ownership, work cross-functionally with a collaborative team, and have the opportunity to make a direct impact by ensuring regulatory excellence while helping the company grow.

Benefits

• Simple IRA
• Simple IRA matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.