PR/123385 | Regulatory Affairs Assistant Manager

Essential Job Functions:

• Fulfill regulatory, quality and technical requests in a timely manner from both internal and external customers and file responses if needed. Manage the reporting of product information using standard templates to fulfill customer inquiries.
• Monitor, understand and summarize regulatory changes pertaining to food and food ingredient use in Asia Pacific, share summaries with other regulatory functions and relevant departments affected by the change
• Evaluate and provide with interpretation of regulatory trends and patterns that could affect operations.
• Research and develop company statements in response to regulatory and quality requirements from customers and in response to industry events.
• Compare proposed company statements against other records and standards, verifying consistency and accuracy.
• Collect and use data on departmental performance to make recommendations for continuous process improvement.
• Accurately maintain product information databases to help guide the development of products.

• Research and review information about ingredients used in finished products and raw materials and entering data into databases

   

   

  Education/Experience/Skills:

   

  Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science/ Chemistry or equivalent combination of education and regulatory experience in the food industry
• 8 years of food industry experience in Regulatory Affairs matter
• Demonstrated ability working in teams to manage quick turnaround times in high volume, high variety, open office environment while meeting aggressive deadlines
• Strong organizational and computer skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to work in a professional manner with customers and colleagues by telephone, e-mail and in person and ability to work cross functionally with other departments to complete requests.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be detailed and accurate with strong demonstrated proof reading and reference checking skills
• Experience with research and investigation of quality and regulatory questions and concerns and preparing professional and potentially legally binding written responses