The Role:
The Product Compliance Specialist will play a key role within our Retail Solution Centre in ensuring that all retailer products, their packaging, labelling, artwork and documentations meet applicable regulatory, environmental, and quality standards. The product approval process will follow the critical path to product launch. Supporting our clients and their suppliers, the Specialist will work cross-functionally to ensure that all aspects of the product comply with relevant requirements, providing expert guidance and technical support.
Main duties:
- Responsible for a variety of products within our client’s Hardline and Softline product ranges.
- Ensuring compliance of product to specific regulatory and retail requirements.
- Product approval process – responsible for meeting Critical Path deadlines through the approval process to launch.
- Review and approve technical specifications and relevant documents.
- Review and approve product artwork, packaging, and labelling to ensure compliance with regional and product specific regulatory and retail requirements.
- Communication to external stakeholders including technical and regulatory guidance, critical path deadlines, product and documentation non-compliances and supplier monitoring.
- Ensure products are legally compliant and fit for purpose.
- Maintain product status on the critical path and keep detailed accurate records of all communications in an orderly fashion.
- Working with Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software for all products critical path and document control.
- Build positive and effective relationships with Quality Assurance, Buying teams and suppliers.
- Attend retailer meetings as and when required either face to face or virtually using teams.
- Any other reasonable task requested to support the business.
What We Are Looking For:
- Experienced in a similar regulatory role ideally within Quality, retailer or supply chain environment
- Proven experience working within the UK and EU regulatory frameworks including General Product Safety Regulation.
- Experience reviewing and approving packaging, labelling, artwork and product documentations for compliance.
- Proven experience and understanding of product sealing procedures.
- Understanding of critical path management and working with retailers, brands, buying and sourcing offices, vendors, suppliers, and factories.
- Understanding manufacturing processes and production experience in the product areas.
- Demonstrates a self-motivated, resilient and above all positive approach to working with all stakeholders.
- Highly organised, detail-orientated, and comfortable managing multiple projects and stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interpret complex regulations and translate into actionable business requirements.
- Team spirit is essential and must be a pro-active, organised and resilient individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment with a “can-do” attitude.
- Delivering quality in all our work is key, so accuracy, speed and attention to detail is essential whilst meeting given priorities/ deadlines.
Benefits: Office based role - 37.5 hours - Monday to Friday, Competitive Salary, Life Assurance 4 x salary, Private Medical Insurance, Healthcash Care Plan, Income Protection, Group Pension Scheme (match contribution of up to 5 %), Option to buy up to 5 days holiday a year, Perkbox (access to discounts), Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support, World-wide career opportunities.
Hybrid working will be considered, you must be able to attend the office in Northampton upto 2 days a week if required.
