Product Compliance Assessor - Southampton, United Kingdom - British American Tobacco

British American Tobacco

Verified Company

Southampton, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

BAT is evolving at pace - truly like no other organisation.

To achieve the ambition, we have set for ourselves, we are looking for colleagues who are ready to live our ethos every day. Come be a part of this journey

BAT UK
IS LOOKING FOR A
PRODUCT COMPLIANCE ASSESSOR

SENIORITY LEVEL:
Experienced Non-Management Level

FUNCTION:
Research & Development (R&D)

LOCATION:
Southampton

TYPE OF CONTRACT:
Permanent

ROLE POSITIONING AND OBJECTIVES

What are the key objectives and expectations from this role?

Reports to
Regional Product Compliance Manager

Geographic Scope
Global

Support the growth of the product category and the growth of the regulatory complexity by ensuring close partnership with Regulatory Intelligence, LEX (Legal and External Affairs) and stakeholders to implement and embed legal requirements and new markets into efficient processes and ways of working.

What is the direct impact of this role on the team or organization?
MO products are a rapidly growing category for BAT, supporting our A Better Tomorrow ambition. The shipment, manufacture, launch and ability to remain in market is dependent on compliance to the relevant regulations.

MO product compliance requirements are the most differentiated across markets.

Product Compliance is responsible for the assessment and reporting of MO products to ensure the business is legally compliant and can launch and remain in market.

The role will require rapidly gained expertise in the product and the legal compliance requirements for this product category and will require pro-active stakeholder engagement to ensure that projects and stakeholders are clear on the compliance requirements to be planned into projects/

WHAT YOU WILL BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR

Providing accurate and on time delivery of legal compliance outcomes and/or reporting requirements according to project priority or end market legal requirements.
Support LM in providing user requirements and system development testing to enable efficient assessment and reporting of products through our systems
Support the training of MO legal assessment and reporting as required.
Support the training of MO Packaging Guidelines as required
Stakeholder management from Discover to Deploy to ensure clear project prioritisation
Accurate planning and capacity management through Planning processes
Identify and drive innovative ways of working to deliver process efficiencies
Providing technical support to the Product Compliance team, and all stakeholders on all MO product assessment and reporting related matters.
Ensures the confidentiality of all supplier information is maintained to ensure their trust, support and cooperation.
Working effectively in a highly dynamic and challenging working environment, balancing competing priorities and providing leadership in a key area of the business.
Knowledge of the PLM process and confidence to challenge own and stakeholder ways of working to meet business requirements
Ability to engage with external suppliers and respond to end market authority queries responsibly with knowledge and confidence.

CAN THIS BE YOUR FUTURE ROLE?

Do you have experience in legal compliance assessments or legal reporting of other product categories?
Are you familiar with the PLM process from Discover to Deploy, the Product Compliance protocols and the required stakeholder teams to engage with?
Are you familiar with SAP and 3DX systems?

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE

A degree in a relevant science or legal discipline and/or demonstrable experience and positive track record
Good IT skills including MS office, SAP and 3DX
Good verbal and writing capabilities in English. Experience in technical report writing desirable
Stakeholder engagement to drive clear processes or clear priorities
Selfstarter with ability to work unsupervised and under pressure whilst maintaining flexibility
Good attention to detail
Ability to manage upwards effectively and assertively, as well as within the peer group, to acquire the necessary information, and help drive and inform the decisionmaking process by the appropriately placed people (both at the senior and junior level)
Able to deal proactively and confidently when faced with a high level of ambiguity and tight time constraints
Excellent technical written and verbal reasoning skills
Strong team player who collaborates with peers to support critical projects and deliverables
Positive "cando" attitude and effective problem solver

University education level

Scientific/Technical Management.

BENEFICIAL

PLM process knowledge and/or project management experience
Previous experience of CPS and legal assessments for other product categories and/or previous experience in compiling legal reports or product notifications for external authorities
Working knowledge of MO products and the relevant product compliance requirements