Job Description:
Job Purpose
India SRA Senior Manager: Ensure regulatory compliance for all regulatory related activities for Pet Nutrition according to local regulatory legislations/standards. He/she will be recognized as a technical expert for the delivery of the regulatory element of business projects and undertake such activities to ensure that Mars Petcare is at the leading edge of regulatory developments; influencing activities are supported; the business responds in the appropriate way to regulatory developments and challenges; the business is aware of, and reacts to, emerging regulatory issues. Manage internal/external stakeholders and support Global/Asia SRA deployment to OE business unit.
Asia SRA Pillar leader: Support Asia SRA Director to connect the dots across OEs on assigned regulatory pillar anticipate and drive the aligned key success measures.
Key Responsibilities
People Team Management:
- Lead India SRA organization to define OE SRA Roadmap Annual Focus according to OE business objectives and goals, align with Asia SRA Director relevant functional leads, including communicating to key internal stakeholders.
- Supervise SRA team member(s) in daily operations and support to troubleshoot when required.
- Ensure sufficient team resources to perform the responsible scopes and explore initiative approaches to manage short-term workload if any.
Regulatory compliance:
- Undertake responsibility for defined brand/product areas and all product technical and legislative issues pertaining to this area and associated projects.
- Act as primary interface with other functions at the operating level; direct interface with all business functions on technical aspects of regulatory affairs.
- Promote and inform the development and substantiation of innovative claims that that enable the business to maximise the competitive advantage within compliance scope.
- Provide technical expertise to enable the development of robust technical briefings for RD or other business functions/partners to use to proactively when representing our business.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of, and adherence to robust business processes that ensure products and claims are legally compliant.
- Provide reasoned and analytical risk assessments as required that evaluate regulatory risk, business exposure and likely consequences, as well as providing opportunities for mitigation.
External Stakeholder Management:
- Develop/expand strong external networks and lead the technical/regulatory influencing activities of the Petfood industry (competitors via Industry association) and of the Regulatory authorities.
- Strategize for short/mid/long term approaches with association relevant authorities and drive for achievements.
- Monitor and assess regulatory developments both in feed and food sectors to enable the business to react in a timely fashion to minimise impact or facilitate exploitation of such developments.
Internal Stakeholder Management:
- Works closely with the business team to ensure that current and proposed regulatory requirements are understood and correctly interpreted.
- Provide internal expertise in technical regulatory matters for defined functional areas across the entire Mars Petcare business.
- Provide Regulatory Affairs input and/or representation in the appropriate business forums.
- Engage through Asia SRA Leadership team and ensure that OE projects, strategies and initiatives are aligned with global priorities and targets.
- Devise and deliver RA trainings on key strategic technical and regulatory issues for key clients and partners in the business.
Regulatory Intelligence:
- Support Asia SRA to develop Regulatory Intelligence framework to define the effective monitoring program for upcoming regulation or changes of existing regulations.
- Support to consolidate key regulatory contexts and their changes, potential business impacts and mitigation plan.
- Organize communication session to deliver the Regulatory Intelligence information to relevant functions.
Job Specifications/Qualifications
- Degree qualified in a food or science related discipline
- 8 yrs experience working in similar role in FMCG company Science background with Regulatory Affairs experiences.
- Understanding of Regulatory compliance processes, quality management principles, working in teams, process management, conflict resolution
- Fluent in written and spoken English
