Job Opportunity:Regulatory Affairs Manager – North Europe

Locations: Hybrid role, with the option to be based at one of our UK office locations: Castle Cary (Somerset), Birstall (Yorkshire), Waltham (Leicestershire), or Slough (Berkshire).
Job Type: Permanent

Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 DOE + Bonus + competitive benefits

We are seeking a highly experienced Regulatory Affairs Manager to join our Europe Regulatory Affairs team, supporting Innovation & Portfolio Compliance and leading regulatory activities across the North Europe Cluster (UK & Nordics).

This is a strategically important role which exists to protect the business, enable innovation, and ensure regulatory compliance across a complex and evolving regulatory landscape. You will act as a trusted regulatory partner to the business, supporting compliant product development while identifying risks, opportunities, and routes to market.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead regulatory input for European innovation and portfolio compliance projects, advising on claims, labelling, packaging, and product communication
• Provide strategic regulatory leadership across the UK & Nordics, ensuring full compliance for ingredients, recipes, labelling, and packaging
• Act as a subject matter expert on UK & EU feed law and sustainability regulations, translating regulatory complexity into practical business guidance
• Enable compliant innovation by partnering closely with R&D, Marketing, Commercial, Legal, and Supply Chain teams
• Manage regulatory risk, challenge, and issue resolution, including engagement with regulatory authorities and external legal or technical partners
• Develop and execute the external regulatory influencing strategy, representing the business through trade associations and regulatory forums

About you

• Extensive Regulatory Affairs experience ideally within food or feed sectors,  including pet food or closely related categories
• Strong working knowledge of UK & EU Feed Law, particularly covering ingredients, labelling, product communication, and packaging
• Proven experience supporting innovation and portfolio compliance, enabling compliant product development in a regulated environment
• Ability to navigate regulatory complexity and ambiguity, providing pragmatic, risk‑based guidance with confidence and autonomy
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with experience working cross‑functionally and with external partners or authorities
• Fluent English, with the capability to represent the business externally (e.g. trade associations, regulatory forums)

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
•  Join a purpose-driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry-competitive salary and benefits package, including a company bonus.

Mars is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable adjustments for individuals with disabilities, long-term health conditions, or who are neurodiverse during the application and recruitment process. To request reasonable adjustments, complete our Reasonable Adjustment Request Form here.

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