Manager Regulatory Affairs - Head of Product Stewardship (m/f/d)

• Exciting opportunities await you - as Regulatory Affairs Manager and Head of our Product Stewardship team, your task will be the management of regulatory requirements for our products: from ensuring the compliance of new raw material sources and qualities for our products with existing, changing and upcoming regulations to coordinating the evaluation and clearance of new raw materials and suppliers to leading our Product Stewardship team and reporting to the Global Head of Regulatory Affairs to acting as contact person for national and international authorities and institutes to engaging in important industry associations and industry consortia. Further duties include:
• Taking care of special regulations in application-related fields, e.g. food contact or cosmetics
• Monitoring global regulatory customer requests
• Implementing standardized and consistent responses to customer inquiries as well as customer and industry portals
• Creating regulatory BYK documents
• Handling disclosures of confidential information
• Advising on BYK's marketing strategy with regard to the publication of regulatory product information
• Providing regulatory information for business line and end use managers
• Supplying stakeholders with regulatory information on ensuring BYK product compliance
• Participating in the staging of training courses and seminars

• With this profile, you convince us - if you are versed in the EU legal framework and specific regulations, e.g. concerning the EU Ecolabel or conflict minerals, and bring ready business acumen, analysis, planning and prioritization proficiency as well as a track record in product communications resp. stewardship, we warmly invite you to apply. Your other skills and competencies include:
• University postgraduate degree, preferably a PhD, ideally in chemistry or business chemistry
• Positive attitude, strategic thinking and dexterous communication
• Leadership as well as team player qualities

In the ALTANA Group, you will work in a unique culture of innovation where the utmost importance is attached to promoting individual ideas and abilities as well as open, trusting interaction. BYK offers you a lot of advantages. They include pleasant-sized operations where employees get to know each other personally and exchange ideas, short information and decision-making paths, comprehensive further education and training offers, flexible working hours with flextime and an impressive compensation with good employee benefits and pension plans.