Product Regulatory Compliance Senior Specialist - Southampton, United Kingdom - British American Tobacco

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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 REGULATORY COMPLIANCE SENIOR SPECIALIST - COMBUSTIBLES

SENIORITY LEVEL:
Experienced Non-Management Level


FUNCTION:
Scientific & Regulatory Affairs


SUB FUNCTION:
Product Regulatory Compliance


LOCATION:
Southampton, UK


TYPE OF CONTRACT:
Permanent


BENEFITS

  • UK yearly Incentive Bonus competitive % based on business results and average annual salary
  • Share Reward Scheme (free shares and share saving scheme), Group Personal Accident Insurance, Life Assurance
  • Flexible Benefits Scheme: Tax Return Assistance, Cycle To Work, Holiday Trading, Dental Insurance, Travel Insurance; Onsite Gym and Gyms Discountsdiscounts at over 3,700 gyms, SPAs, pools, studios and outdoor fitness events across the UK; Season Ticket loansInterest free loans for purchase of annual tickets for public transport

What are the key objectives and expectations from this role?

  • Support the growth of the product category and the growth of the regulatory complexity by ensuring close partnership with Compliance Insights, CORA and stakeholders to implement and embed legal requirements and new markets into efficient processes and ways of working.
  • Ability to manage stakeholders to ensure clear project prioritisation aligned to workload capacity.
  • Identify and drive efficient system user requirements to support efficient processes.

What is the direct impact of this role on the team or organization?

  • PRC is responsible for the assessment and reporting of combustible 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 proactive stakeholder engagement to ensure that projects and stakeholders are clear on the compliance requirements to be planned into projects.
Reports to

Snr Product Compliance Manager - Combustibles

Number of Direct Reports

None

Core Relationships

  • GR&D and Product Teams
  • CORA and Legal Teams (Global)
  • Global and Regional NPI Teams
  • Marketing (Global, Regional and Local end markets)
  • Product Managers
  • Consumer Product Safety Teams
  • Global Quality and Factories
  • Planning team
  • External
  • External
Partners (3rd parties) External Suppliers

Geographic Scope

Global

Travel Required

Limited travel


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 legal assessment and reporting as required.
  • Stakeholder management from Develop 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 product assessment and reporting related matters.
  • Ensures the confidentiality of all supplier information is maintained to ensure their trust, support and
- co-operation.

  • 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

Experience Required

  • 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

Technical / Functional / Leadership Skills Required

  • Ability to manage upwards effectively and assertively, as well as within the peer group, to acquire the nec

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