Regulatory Scientist

at  Kerry

WHAT DO I NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL?

In Kerry we understand that people have very different career trajectories and experiences. In order to be successful in this role we would be looking for the right competencies and aptitudes as well as your proven track record of success in a similar role and environment.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are recruiting for a Regulatory Scientist to join our Meat and Culinary business on a 12-month fixed term contract. You will be joining an innovative team of 4 looking after 1-2 key customers to provide support and engagement with any queries or key updates.
Reporting into the Regulatory Manager you will have a strategic focus in commercialising compliant NPI products and business partner with our GBS fulfilment colleagues to support the embedding of the new regulatory operating model and on Customer queries.
This role is based at our Global Technology and Innovation Centre in Naas.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate as a proactive partner as a team member of project/development teams and provide regulatory expertise and advisement on ingredients (are they approved for use in application), on claims, and certifications throughout the development team process.
• Provide regulatory information for new development and innovation.
• Provide regulatory interpretation and regulatory advice to internal stakeholders and Customers
• Manage emerging issues & first escalations, be the point of contact to internal stakeholders as required.
• RSA and GBS work closely together to provide a seamless, fast, and consistent response to request. EUM managers in RSA and GBS have regular meetings for customer needs
• GBS is incorporated into appropriate regional all-staff meetings to stay informed of RSA and updates to business will be provided as needed through interactions outlined in deliverables
• Be the in region support for your colleagues in GBS ensuring that the GBS team are invited to relevant meetings and are kept informed of relevant in region updates that may have an impact on their role
• Training and onboarding partner of Regulatory colleagues & other functions as required
• Reviews the commercialization process, for all relevant labelling and NFP formatting compliance. Performs same comprehensive review and approvals required for formula changes through Kerry Tracks.
• Working closely with the senior R&SA scientist to ensure they are up to date with the latest development of relevant industry regulations and regulatory trends across the region and share with relevant stakeholders

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• Support the participation in trade association where applicable, to proactively engage on policy discussions, understand new regulation to enable the business to have a competitive advantage in the marketplace
• Proactively business partnering with EUM on specific customer opportunities, strategic customer engagements including customer presentations
• Prepares external certification requests as outlined at project brief and leads the cross-functional substantiation and documentation of all claims in accordance with current country regulations.
• Completion of key strategic customer documentation that are retained under Regional remit, according to EUM strategic plans