Location : Aimargues ( près de Montpellier)

Segment : Royal Canin

Contract Type :Permanent

One of the key deliverables of the Regulatory Function is to ensure that Royal Canin can maintain the compliance of its products with all applicable and evolving technical regulations and standards.

The Global Portfolio & Content Compliance Manager guarantees the effective operation of all compliance processes, enabling the continuous supply of Royal Canin products and the release of external communications. He or she acts as a facilitator in executing these processes and contributes to their excellence by monitoring performance and identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.

What are we looking for?

• Facilitate the execution of compliance processes that ensure market access continuity for Royal Canin’s existing portfolio (e.g., Regulatory Change Management Process, Challenge Process) and safeguard our ability to maintain compliance of both on-pack and off-pack product-related information.

• Serve as the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for guiding users and removing roadblocks within these compliance processes.

• Monitor the performance of compliance processes and identify opportunities for improvement.

• Own selected regulatory compliance product data used within these processes.

• Act as Senior User and Ambassador of the Regulatory Risk Management Program (RRMP), ensuring its effective leverage in compliance activities.

• Facilitate selected cross-functional global forums (e.g., Labelling Council) associated with compliance processes.

• Own guidance documents that provide clarity to Regulatory Associates and partners in other functions regarding requirements to ensure market access for Royal Canin products.

• Serve as Senior User of training materials that equip associates with the necessary knowledge and skills to operate within product-related compliance processes.

• Act as Senior User and functional expert of systems digitizing the execution of compliance processes.

• Lead activities and projects that ensure continuous compliance of the existing portfolio (e.g., MUST DO Regulatory Driven QUEST projects).

• Track and report progress on agreed actions (Risk Mitigations and CAPAs) to maintain portfolio compliance with evolving regulations.

• Track and report progress on action plans aimed at unlocking geographic expansion of the existing portfolio.

• Serve as Senior User of the Regulatory Horizon Scanning Process and ensure that insights translate into foresight, triggering management decisions and action logs to protect the business.

What would be your key responsibilities?

• M.S. or equivalent in life-sciences with an appetite for and hands on professional experience in product law

• Alternatively, a master’s in law with an appetite and hands-on professional experience in life sciences

• 6+ years of professional experience with a minimum of 2 years in Regulatory Affairs (or close collaboration with this function)

• Excellent communication skills, fluent in English is mandatory

What can you expect from Mars?

•   You will work in a multicultural environment (more than 40 nationalities) and where your dog will be welcomed by more than 100 other Associates’ dogs at the office!   

• You will work in a unique campus, which gathers more than 800 Associates working for: the international HQ, the French subsidiary, two laboratories, a kennel and a cattery with more than 200 cats & dogs, and finally the most important factory of the Royal Canin group  

• All Royal Canin products manufactured in Europe are ISO 14001 certified from design to factory gate 

• A unique and ideal work environment to become the leader in health through nutrition for cats and dogs!

Royal Canin's CSR commitments, to build a better world for tomorrow:

• Since 2015, no waste to landfill is made by the 16 Royal Canin factories in the world

• All Royal Canin products manufactured in Europe are ISO 14001 certified from design to factory gate

• Since 2017, Royal Canin has supported the K-DOG program of the Curie Institute, which trains dogs to detect breast cancer via olfaction.