Director of Regulatory Affairs

A unique opportunity to take a key role on the leadership team of a highly successful and award-winning developer of naturally sourced, sustainable ingredients for regulated consumer products.

They are the leader in their field, the market is exploding, this position will be paramount to this regulatory centric business’ continued global growth.

The company prides itself on the ability to intelligently and creatively navigate the regulatory landscape creating huge competitive advantage. This role will play a lead in safeguarding the business, accelerating customer adoption and defending and further extending their position as world leader in their field of sustainable ingredients.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Shape global regulatory strategy by translating complex regulatory requirements into clear business opportunities and guiding management and customers.
• Drive authorisations by overseeing global registrations and relationships with authorities to ensure approvals and compliance.
• Lead and grow the regulatory team by mentoring staff with positive inspiration, developing their skills, recruiting new talent and overseeing external experts.
• Support customers by providing expert regulatory insight that strengthens partnerships and identifies new market opportunities.
• Protect and leverage company regulatory data to defend and extend market access.

We are looking for a driven strategic thinker who has an enquiring and creative approach. You must have:

• a deep understanding of regulations
• this could be agrochemical (PPP), chemicals (REACH), Biocides or Pharmaceutical
• be able to deep dive into detail AND take a big picture view
• be able to connect the dots to deliver solutions to complex hurdles.

You must be an engaging communicator who can persuasively advise and influence colleagues, customers and regulators. You must be an inspiring leader who enjoys developing and leading from the front.

You will have a background in regulatory affairs, ideally chemical but any complex regulated product area will be considered; there will be a long and structured hand-over period in which you can build deep expertise in the specific regulations and products.

Key Skills: Strategy, creativity, communication, persuasion, leadership, regulatory affairs, regulatory management, product registrations, compliance, passion for sustainable products.

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.