[Hiring] Senior Regulatory Advisor @Ashbury

Role Description

In this role you will be advising clients, their suppliers and Ashbury advisors, on how to get it right. You will be using your regulatory knowledge and experience to inquisitively question and challenge to ensure Ashbury clients have due diligence and are compliant with the law. You will be accountable for quality, accurate and timely risk-based advice, which enables our customers to launch products competitively and safely.

This role is key to the delivery of our services to our clients. You will be part of the largest team within Ashbury, Advisory Services. The Advisory Services Team is made of both industry and regulatory professionals, with expertise in food and non-food, across manufacturing and retail internationally.

• Providing regulatory advice to Ashbury and its clients, to ensure products are legally compliant.
• Researching and horizon scanning for changes and developments, which affect the regulatory landscape.
• Reviewing and advising changes to Ashbury clients’ policies, considering new regulations, guidance, and codes of practice.
• Client customer compliant management, writing responses and managing escalated and/or serious complaints.
• Providing risk-based recommendations to complaints/enforcement challenges for Ashbury clients.
• Leading/Supporting a client through a product recall/withdrawal process.
• Liaising with central & local government agencies and industry bodies.
• Delivering training on regulatory & technical topics to Ashbury and its clients.
• Developing relationships with client Technical/Regulatory decision makers.
• Attending client meetings to discuss Regulatory affairs.
• Producing expert opinion content on subject matters for marketing and training purposes.
• Presenting expert opinion on subject matters internally and externally.
• Keeping up to date with legal requirements and labelling policies.
• Maintaining and growing your expertise in one or more subject areas.
• Carrying out product information services, such as formulation and compliance reviews.
• Executing Performance checks.
• Monitoring and raising performance concerns.
• Identifying and communicating training needs.

Qualifications

• Degree level educational qualification in product safety, consumer protection, consumer law or other relevant qualification or experience.
• In-depth regulatory knowledge in product safety, including codes of practice, policies, guidance, and standards.
• Excellent understanding of legal requirements, challenges and consumer trends relating to product information.
• Maintaining an awareness of relevant changes in the regulatory environment.
• Confident in applying knowledge and experience to advice, tailoring to the client and scenario.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience of working in a regulatory role within industry or trading standards/enforcement.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• Fluent in spoken and written language required for market/region.
• Demonstrable experience of independent working, managing your own workload and time management.
• Demonstrable risk-based decision making.
• Confident to apply requirements to product information and communicating decisions to clients.
• Fluency in one or more other languages.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the retail and manufacturing side, including the product launch process.
• Demonstrate an awareness of client PLM (Product Lifetime Management) systems.
• Excellent oral, written communication skills, including IT and presentation skills.
• Able to explain complex requirements in a simple way.
• Supports the growth of colleagues through training, mentoring and coaching.
• Able to risk assess a situation, providing a risk appropriate solution.
• Ability to research and gather information using available resources.
• Welcomes guidance and understands the commercial environment.
• Stress resilient and able to work against tight deadlines.
• Positive approach to opportunities to develop into new areas as Ashbury grows.
• Consistently works at expected work rate and to a high level of accuracy.
• Clearly demonstrates the Ashbury Values by being trustworthy, positive and welcoming to people and ideas.

Benefits

• Home-based role*
• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays as standard*
• Additional annual leave with length of service.
• Option to buy additional annual leave.
• Charity days and time off to support your favourite charity.
• Payroll Charity giving scheme.
• Cycle to Work scheme and much more!