Givaudan is a company that celebrates the beauty of human experience and creates innovations for happier, healthier lives with love for nature.
Our Mission:
We deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions with passion and creativity. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world.
Regulatory Team Lead - Innovation and Certifications
You will be working for a company that touches billions of consumers more than a hundred times a day. Our Business to Business industry is driven by our passion for customers - the big food & beverage companies - and their brands.
Your Role:
As a Team Leader and Regulatory Manager technical expert, you will work within our Taste & Wellbeing Regulatory Department in a team unit operating in European markets. You will lead regulatory projects and information with and for internal and external customers and provide regulatory expertise to bring new products to the market through strong customer focus, clear accountability, regulatory advice and advocacy to ensure product safety and compliance.
Responsibilities:
* Provide internal and external customers with consistent and compliant product safety and legislative expertise
* Monitor and interpret flavouring and food regulatory and legislative developments, identify early issues that impact the business, and advise the business on eventual risks to ensure compliance and reduced liability
* Be the key point of contact for commercial and research and product development teams for delivering legislation updates and regulatory consultancy for innovation projects, new launches, and marketing promotions based on business processes and internal regulatory systems and procedures and industry and regulatory requirements in an expeditious timeframe
* Ensure certifications for Halal, Kosher, Organic, and any other future schemes are in place for Europe
* Collaborate and ensure alignment with global regulatory teams, other regional regulatory teams (e.g. advocacy group, system/data experts), and other stakeholders such as communication teams and integration project leads
* Utilise functionalities of internal SAP-based regulatory systems and databases to support key compliance and safety initiatives
* Ensure integrity of regulatory database as well as protection of regional intellectual property
* Develop and implement internal policies, processes, procedures, and training for team members/new hires/partners
* Establish relationships with assigned customer contacts including participation/leading customer visits/meetings
* Manage a team of regulatory experts
About You:
Are you someone who wants to grow and shape your own world? Who thrives in a culture where you can express yourself in a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate and learn together with teams who are as passionate as you are?
Your Qualifications:
* University Degree (minimum Master) in a scientific field such as Chemistry or Food, Biological or Physical sciences
* 6-10 years of regulatory experience in Flavours or Food or related industry
* Knowledge of the food industry regulatory issues and trends, understanding of its customer regulatory requirements and market dynamics for food ingredients and flavourings
* Strong communication (both written and oral) and networking skills
* Problem-solving and decision quality skills
* Customer focus and drive for results
* Proactive mindset
* Project management skills and priority setting
* Business fluency in English is a must and additional language is a plus
Location: Kemptthal - Zürich (Switzerland)
Givaudan is committed to equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications regardless of cultural and social background, gender, age, religion, or sexual identity. We also have a safe working environment, progressive working conditions, and are certified as an equal pay employer.
This role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to the success of Givaudan and to shape your own career path in a dynamic and supportive environment.