Regulatory Affairs Assistant Manager

Unilever is currently hiring for a Regulatory Affairs Assistant Manager

Unilever International (UI) is Unilever’s White Space Arm of Unilever - one of the fastest and most profitable business of Unilever.

UI works across the world to fill white spaces for Unilever. As intrapreneurs, we introduce Unilever’s brands into white space geographies like Korea, Pacific Islands, Mongolia, and spearhead launches of iconic household brands like Dove, Lifebuoy, Sunlight, Glow & Lovely, TRESemme into big markets like U.S, China, Western Europe, and SEAA.   

As Unilever’s growth engine, we establish global white space businesses in key channels such as Health & Beauty, Discounters, E-Commerce, and alternate channels such as travel retail, marketing to institutional partners like the United Nations, and seeding Unilever brands to overseas diaspora who crave for a taste of their familiar home brands. Singapore is our global hub leading strategy, marketing thinking, seeding plans, and alignment with the global categories and supply chain. We have global presence and UI hubs all over the world. 

SPEED is the mantra for our resounding success. To serve the underserved, we embrace a founder’s mentality, explore unchartered territories, redesign end-to-end business models to establish successful businesses. We make a difference by deeply caring for our consumers, customers and talents, focusing on that really matters, thinking ahead in time and working to win together.

Unilever International (UI) being part of Unilever is fully committed to ensuring that its products are fully compliant with local legislation globally and meet Unilever’s own high internal standards.

This position will play a critical role in ensuring we fulfill this commitment for all 4 business groups in Africa (East and west Africa - primary focus on Francophone Africa) in form product compliance, regulatory change management, all local product registration and certification. The role will report to Head of Regulatory Affairs 1UL Malaysia, UI Asia & Africa and will be part of larger 1UL RA team working closely with UI R&D and all the cross functional teams in UI. For regulatory advice and expertise, this role will work closely with the larger Unilever RA community as well as with external Regulatory Affairs Experts in all clusters.

UI Regulatory Affairs team leads this mandate and supports the entire Unilever International portfolio across the globe, dealing with a wide variety in compliance activities and interacts with across functions in Unilever. This role will manage regulatory & product compliance requirements for UI portfolio and innovation projects in Africa (East and West Africa) cross BGs.  For regulatory advocacy and expertise, this role will work with Unilever Regulatory Affairs community as well as with external Regulatory Experts in all clusters.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

• Accountable for and the first point of contact for any regulatory requirement for UI business in East and West Africa and Francophone

• Build UI RA expertise on local regulations across East and West African including Francophone continent across Home Care, Beauty & Wellbeing, Personal Care & Foods

• Design and maintain process to support UI business in product compliance assurance

• Builds & maintains a strong network of contacts in R&D, Marketing and Supply Chain to facilitate assurance of product compliance for Unilever International (UI)

• Working with external experts and creation of an eco-system of RAP (Regulatory Affairs Partner i.e. regulatory consultants)

• Evaluate and advise on various planned/ad hoc requirements, e.g., NAFDAC query, for the UI innovation/ renovation project team

• Cross-collaborate with BG RA & 1UL RA teams for streamlined way of working

• Ensure that existing UI products are evaluated in case of regulatory changes

• To be digitally salient to embrace and incorporate digital processes for Regulatory Affairs.

Experiences & Qualifications

• Degree or MSc or equivalent, preferably chemicals, food science or related discipline

• 3-5 years experience in regulatory affairs will be preferred. Experience on handling requirements in East and West African market will be preferable.

• Strong ability to design processes and to land best practice

• Strong Business acumen, agility & personal mastery.

• Independent problem-solving personality, that can delegate up and down and work well with multi-functional teams

• Excellent communicator, who can engage senior leaders and enthuse operational teams

• Be able to work flexibly and agile

• Fluent written and verbal communication in English. Fluency in French is highly desired.

Skills

• DIGITAL YODA (Digital first) – term used for Digital savvy

Leadership

• You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

• As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• CARE DEEPLY to nurture our tribe and work and win together

• FOCUS ON WHAT COUNTS – Consumer and customer obsession

• STAY THREE STEPS AHEAD to drive hunger for growth

• DRIVE WITH EXCELLENCE & Passion for execution

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicates from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

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