Senior Chemical/Regulatory Compliance Specialist

at  Velux Residential

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the sustainable indoor living industry, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.
The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we are able to create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations.
Alongside the rest of our values, “courage” and “mutual respect” define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.
Would you like take a key role to ensure chemical compliance of VELUX products? Do you excel in a position that involves establishing beneficial connections and collaborating with different team members on matters of chemical compliance? Do you have a motivation and several years of industry experience working with chemical compliance in a similar role?
Then you might be the Senior Chemical/Regulatory Compliance Specialist we are looking for!
You will be based at our Head office in Hørsholm and join the Regulatory Intelligence & Conformity (RIC) team, and report to the Senior Manager of the RIC team. The team is part of Standardization and Technical Performance department within VELUX Products & Innovation. We monitor, develop and communicate insights on regulatory trends, technical boundary conditions and we safeguard internal technical product values.
We expect you to travel around 5 days/month, mostly to VELUX sites in Denmark, where our key stakeholders are located (e.g. Østbirk, Skjern).

Your primary activities and responsibilities as our new Senior Chemical/Regulatory Compliance Specialist are:

• Significantly contribute to Chemical Risk & Compliance governance at VELUX e.g. via managing chemical compliance related tasks/projects in cooperation with important internal stakeholders such as advanced material technology, procurement, supplier quality, and production departments.
• Be responsible at establishing a “database” including information on product chemical composition, to secure compliance to current and upcoming legislations (e.g. REACH, BPR, ROHS, ESPR, DPP).
• Provide substantial support to the VELUX PFAS phase-out project.
• Translate regulatory demands in own area into specific technical product requirements to ensure product regulatory compliance.
• Significantly support operational implementation and compliance to product regulations, standards and other legal requirements.
• Represent the interest of the VELUX Group in own area on technical and legislative matters to working groups, industry forums and membership organizations.

Required profile for this role:

• MSc degree in engineering, chemistry or similar.
• Significant experience working with regulatory management of chemicals ideally from an international company, where you may also have obtained project management experience.
• Good communication and negotiation skills to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders.
• Technical knowledge of materials such as plastics, metals, timber/wood and their flows as input material is beneficial.
• Speak, read and write English at a professional level.
• Good problem-solving skills with open and cooperative mindset
• Attentive to details, but never lose sight of the bigger picture

Your opportunities
You will be part of an international company where commitment and mutual respect are among our core values. Teamwork and commitment are essential to the way we work, and we believe in empowering people, which we support through delegating responsibility and investing in people who strive to make a difference. This is your unique chance to utilize your technical insight in a role where you can really get to set your imprint on the agenda for developing a sustainable built environment and indoor climate.
Application and contact
If you would like to hear more about this position please contact Hülya Genç-Fuhrman, Senior Manager Regulatory Intelligence & Conformity at + 45 24780373.
Learn more about the VELUX Group online at www.velux.com, where you can read more about working at our company and what to expect of our recruitment process.
We are looking forward to receiving your application and CV as soon as possible. We will review applications and conduct interviews on an on-going basis, so don’t wait to apply.
We encourage all interested parties - regardless of gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, religion, sexual orientation or disability – to apply for this available position at the VELUX Group.

Your primary activities and responsibilities as our new Senior Chemical/Regulatory Compliance Specialist are:

• Significantly contribute to Chemical Risk & Compliance governance at VELUX e.g. via managing chemical compliance related tasks/projects in cooperation with important internal stakeholders such as advanced material technology, procurement, supplier quality, and production departments.
• Be responsible at establishing a “database” including information on product chemical composition, to secure compliance to current and upcoming legislations (e.g. REACH, BPR, ROHS, ESPR, DPP).
• Provide substantial support to the VELUX PFAS phase-out project.
• Translate regulatory demands in own area into specific technical product requirements to ensure product regulatory compliance.
• Significantly support operational implementation and compliance to product regulations, standards and other legal requirements.
• Represent the interest of the VELUX Group in own area on technical and legislative matters to working groups, industry forums and membership organizations

Required profile for this role:

• MSc degree in engineering, chemistry or similar.
• Significant experience working with regulatory management of chemicals ideally from an international company, where you may also have obtained project management experience.
• Good communication and negotiation skills to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders.
• Technical knowledge of materials such as plastics, metals, timber/wood and their flows as input material is beneficial.
• Speak, read and write English at a professional level.
• Good problem-solving skills with open and cooperative mindset
• Attentive to details, but never lose sight of the bigger pictur