- Location
- Sao Paulo, Brazil · Santa Fe (Ciudad de México) , Mexico · Medellín (Cortezza)
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Legal
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
Regulatory Affairs Specialist
At Essity, your expertise helps ensure products that millions rely on meet the highest regulatory standards. Are you motivated by protecting consumers and enabling innovation? Do you enjoy working across countries and cultures? Ready to shape regulatory excellence in LATAM? Apply now and make an impact.
About the Role
As a Regulatory Affairs Specialist, you will play a key role in ensuring regulatory compliance across Essity’s LATAM product portfolio. Working in a newly established regional set-up, you will help build, align, and implement regulatory processes while supporting product registrations, launches, and portfolio maintenance across multiple markets.
This role partners closely with regional and global stakeholders, including Marketing, Quality, R&D, Supply Chain, and Innovation, to ensure that regulatory requirements are met while enabling business continuity and growth. With exposure to diverse regulatory frameworks and authorities across LATAM, you will contribute to both operational excellence and strategic regulatory initiatives.
What You Will Do
Regulatory Compliance Management: Ensure products comply with applicable local regulations across LATAM markets.
Product Registrations: Manage registrations, notifications, renewals, and post-approval changes for the regional product portfolio.
Regulatory Documentation: Prepare, maintain, and follow up on technical and regulatory dossiers.
Authority Interaction: Coordinate and respond to inquiries from health authorities and regulatory agencies.
Claims & Labeling Review: Review advertising materials, claims, and labeling to ensure regulatory compliance.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with regional and global teams to align regulatory standards and practices.
Regulatory Monitoring: Track regulatory changes in LATAM and communicate potential impacts to the business.
Who You Are
Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Biotechnology, Chemical Engineering, or a related scientific field.
2–5 years of experience in Regulatory Affairs, preferably with multi-country LATAM exposure.
Solid knowledge of LATAM regulatory frameworks and authorities such as COFEPRIS, ANVISA, INVIMA, ANMAT, ISP, or similar.
Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, effective communication, and the ability to work autonomously in multicultural environments.
Advanced English proficiency; Spanish is preferred.
What We Can Offer You
Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-being, provides meaning to everything we do. Join us to improve well-being for people and drive positive change for society and the environment. At Essity, you'll feel valued, empowered to grow, and challenged to achieve business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere.
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