Compliance Specialist - Southampton, United Kingdom - British American Tobacco

British American Tobacco

Verified Company

Southampton, United Kingdom

2 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 COMPLIANCE SPECIALIST

SENIORITY LEVEL:
Experienced Non-Management Level

FUNCTION:
Scientific and 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 partners to implement and embed legal requirements and new markets into efficient processes and ways of working.

Ability to manage partners to ensure clear project prioritization 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?

Compliance Specialist is responsible for the assessment and reporting of Vapour and 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 partner engagement to ensure that projects and partners clear on the compliance requirements to be planned into projects.

Reports to
Snr Product Compliance Manager - Vapour and Modern Oral

Number of Direct Reports
None

Core Relationships

Internal

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.
Partner 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 partners on all 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 partner 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 partner 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 field 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.
Partner 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