Senior Manager- Scientific & Regulatory Affairs

Job Purpose

India SRA Senior Manager: Ensure regulatory compliance for all regulatory related activities for Pet Nutrition according to local regulatory legislations/standards. He/she will be recognized as a technical expert for the delivery of the regulatory element of business projects and undertake such activities to ensure that Mars Petcare is at the leading edge of regulatory developments; influencing activities are supported; the business responds in the appropriate way to regulatory developments and challenges; the business is aware of, and reacts to, emerging regulatory issues. Manage internal/external stakeholders and support Global/Asia SRA deployment to OE business unit.

Asia SRA Pillar leader: Support Asia SRA Director to connect the dots across OEs on assigned regulatory pillar anticipate and drive the aligned key success measures.

Key Responsibilities

People & Team Management:

• Lead India SRA organization to define OE SRA Roadmap & Annual Focus according to OE business objectives and goals, align with Asia SRA Director & relevant functional leads, including communicating to key internal stakeholders.
• Supervise SRA team member(s) in daily operations and support to troubleshoot when required.
• Ensure sufficient team resources to perform the responsible scopes and explore initiative approaches to manage short-term workload if any.

Regulatory compliance:

• Undertake responsibility for defined brand/product areas and all product technical and legislative issues pertaining to this area and associated projects.
• Act as primary interface with other functions at the operating level; direct interface with all business functions on technical aspects of regulatory affairs. 
• Promote and inform the development and substantiation of innovative claims that that enable the business to maximise the competitive advantage within compliance scope.
• Provide technical expertise to enable the development of robust technical briefings for R&D or other business functions/partners to use to proactively when representing our business.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of, and adherence to robust business processes that ensure products and claims are legally compliant.
• Provide reasoned and analytical risk assessments as required that evaluate regulatory risk, business exposure and likely consequences, as well as providing opportunities for mitigation.

External Stakeholder Management:

• Develop/expand strong external networks and lead the technical/regulatory influencing activities of the Petfood industry (competitors via Industry association) and of the Regulatory authorities.
• Strategize for short/mid/long term approaches with association & relevant authorities and drive for achievements.
• Monitor and assess regulatory developments both in feed and food sectors to enable the business to react in a timely fashion to minimise impact or facilitate exploitation of such developments.

Internal Stakeholder Management:

• Works closely with the business team to ensure that current and proposed regulatory requirements are understood and correctly interpreted.
• Provide internal expertise in technical regulatory matters for defined functional areas across the entire Mars Petcare business.
• Provide Regulatory Affairs input and/or representation in the appropriate business forums.
• Engage through Asia SRA Leadership team and ensure that OE projects, strategies and initiatives are aligned with global priorities and targets.
• Devise and deliver RA trainings on key strategic technical and regulatory issues for key clients and partners in the business.

Regulatory Intelligence:

• Support Asia SRA to develop Regulatory Intelligence framework to define the effective monitoring program for upcoming regulation or changes of existing regulations.
• Support to consolidate key regulatory contexts and their changes, potential business impacts and mitigation plan.
• Organize communication session to deliver the Regulatory Intelligence information to relevant functions.

Job Specifications/Qualifications

• Degree qualified in a food or science related discipline
• 8+ yrs experience working in MARS or similar role in FMCG company Science background with Regulatory Affairs experiences.
• Understanding of Regulatory compliance processes, quality management principles, working in teams, process management, conflict resolution
• Fluent in written and spoken English