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Global Regulatory Affairs & Safety Strategy Manager

City: Shanghai

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Research & Development

In Research and Development, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

As an Regulatory Manager, you'll be the architect of our product compliance, ensuring our renowned brands and products align with UK and Irish regulations. You will be at the forefront of our market strategy, leading Reckitt in innovation while staying true to our commitment to safety and quality. Thrive in an environment that acknowledges your expertise and empowers you to make a tangible difference. Your journey towards regulatory excellence starts here.

Your responsibilities

The Global Regulatory Affairs & Safety Strategy Intimate Wellness has a large global remit, that will be responsible for leading the Regulatory and Safety Strategy end to end for our Intimate Wellness global business.

•Be the voice of Regulatory Affairs and Safety Strategy for your pod(s) and represent the Regulatory & Safety function within all applicable forums as required.
•Represent the Regulatory Function with end-to-end oversight and responsibilities of the registration / notification processes around the world
•Have overall accountability for the Regulatory and Safety E2E (end to end) Strategy for your products/projects, from development, innovation and growth projects to maintenance, risk management and defence activities to meet the business objectives
•Establish overarching global regulatory strategies, fully aligned with corporate strategy and local requirements and considerations, through your pods.
•Manage a complex and diverse set of registration/regulatory requirements across multiple markets to enable strategic global pipeline delivery. Lead the strategy with the corresponding country regulatory affairs to define development plans and timings of projects and critical regulatory parameters in data and timings.
•You will work internally to support interpretation of new requirements or regulation changes, ensuring team understanding and externally to support development of requirements and advocacy in line with Reckitt’s vision and purpose.
•Lead a cross functional RAS team through the matrix to ensure one voice and execution.
•Be accountable for delivery of the product core dossier/technical files, to achieve in market registration/launches, giving support to the rest of the team in driving consistency and direction. Ensure appropriate resources and capabilities are deployed through your RAS pod to ensure consistent and “right first time” approach, across projects.
•Support the work required to refine Regulatory processes and procedures to optimise accuracy and efficiency, thus enabling speed to market.
•Work with country regulatory, support and where necessary lead with them, Health Authority meetings/negotiations in support of submission and approval of strategic new product registration pathways in critical markets
•Work in partnership with the local regulatory teams to identify and be aware of key requirements and to ensure that they are considered to deliver a ‘right first time’ approach to new product development. Identify efficient pathways to markets by challenging the status quo.
•Deliver within a results-oriented culture, where personal ownership, being ‘nimble’, strong teamwork, and ‘care for colleagues’ are key.
•Devise, and deliver to business partners, training materials that optimally prepare the business for the present and future regulatory environment.

The experience we're looking for

•You have 5+ years’ relevant regulatory and/or safety strategic experience of Health/Hygiene products and across multiple product classifications (medical device, cosmetics…) and regions. Relevant Regulatory Experience and knowledge in new product development (NPD) and dossier/technical file creation and global registrations
•You are a trusted business partner with proven track record of working closely with commercial leaders to deliver robust strategic plans and strong interface with senior functional members.
•You bring significant prior experience leading related product development leading global end-to-end programs, from innovation to maintenance and defend/advocacy strategies, with a strong track record of successful projects delivered across multiple categories and regions. You will have a good understanding of global product development practice for Health products, rules, regulations and guidelines.
•You are experienced in preparing and submitting dossiers, variations and renewals.
•You have familiarity with factors likely to influence the regulatory environment, including new and emerging guidelines relevant to dossier/product deliveries.
•You can communicate regulatory strategies simply and efficiently to a non-regulatory audience as well as changes to the business as required.
•You have high scientific credentials with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) / Master of Science (MS) degree in a relevant scientific discipline – such as Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Microbiology, alongside significant applied industry experience.
•You can demonstrate courage and empathy to lead cross-functional teams in a matrix organisation
•You have excellent communication skills in English and Chinese

The skills for success

Portfolio Management, Commercial Awareness, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Collaborator, R&D, Product Lifecycle Management, Ability to challenge the status quo, Propose improvement, Accountability, Adaptability, Business Strategy, Objective Setting, Consumer Needs, Change Leadership, Task Execution Under Pressure, Makes strategic Business Decisions, Adapt to changes in technological development plans, Creative Direction, Business Accumen, Relationship Management.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.