Regulatory Affairs Manager at Mars

What are we looking for?

• Lead RSA Royal Canin Regulatory team.
• Monitor & Influence regulatory environment.
• Ensure compliance with product-related regulations, including but not limited to: Ingredients, labelling, claims, product registration, packaging & import/export challenges.
• Represents Royal Canin interests in the most relevant Trade Associations technical working groups.
• Actively facilitate excellent relations with the Department of Agriculture (Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies & Stock Remedies Act 36 of 1947 and Animal Diseases Act 35 of 1984) and relevant authorities (Legal Metrology Act 9 of 2014) and consultants

What will be your key responsibilities?

REGULATORY COMPLIANCE

• Provide an interpretation at a detailed level of new and proposed regulations, the implications on the use of our raw materials and formulas.
• Provide regulatory guidance to manufacturing, commercial & supply chain operations on any upcoming regulatory changes.
• Ensure Royal Canin products are in compliance with requirements for exports and imports.
• Manage inventory of registration certificates for finished goods, raw materials and licensing documents for the facility.
• Manage and co-ordinate internal (SANS 1841 (local e mark), regulatory compliance audit) and external (veterinary establishment re-approval, NRCS imports e mark & local e mark) audits and communicate their findings.
• Participate in the LRQA audits and the production of such process documents as required for the function.
• Liaise with Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies & Stock Remedies Act 36 of 1947, Animal Diseases Act 35 of 1984 and Legal Metrology Act 9 of 2014 authorities to ensure compliance.
• Provide insight and strategic direction to Global SRA and R&D on claims that can be made on our products.
• Review, amend & approve packaging of Eukanuba products. The review process occurs in multiple stages i.e. validation of legal texts and claims on Weshare, validation of legal text on Mot-tiff and review of HD layout (without text) on Easypack

REGULATORY CHALLENGE MANAGEMENT

• Manage regulatory challenges.
• Provide the technical information to respond to either legal, regulatory or competitor challenges to our products, labelling or advertising.
• Provide technical expertise, management & support to resolve regulatory affairs and related incidents.

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS / LOBBYING

• Influence and participate in any future or current regulations and interpretations of regulations with the help of Trade Associations, RC Central Regulatory Affairs, RC Corporate Affairs and Mars teams when appropriate
• Develop and share technical expertise in the Trade Association

REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT AND SUPPORT OF PRODUCTS AND CONTINUED BUSINESS IN SOUTH AFRICA

• Surveillance: SABINET and relevant sites consistently and regularly (at least weekly) as relative to our business and products and the communication thereof to the necessary internal parties
• Protection: RC intellectual property, formulations, raw materials and manufacturing know-how in respect of the required level of transparency for the regulatory process
• Interface: be the active interface of RC Central and local teams (esp QFS and factory) where necessary including Raise the Bar (RTB) quarterly meetings, Mars petcare regulatory meetings, etc,