Head of Regulatory Ingredient Registrations & Comp

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,800 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature. 

We are looking for a Head of Regulatory Ingredient Registrations & Compliance Strategy within or F&B business, who will lead a global team focusing on designing, implementing and delivering chemical registrations and excellence in chemical ingredients regulatory compliance management World Wide (WW).

Your responsibilities?

Strategy:

• Ensure Governance for Regulatory Ingredients Compliance CoE
• Assess current state and the requirements of the Ingredients Management & Compliance subject matter topics within
• Givaudan and develop a comprehensive global strategy
• Be accountable for all deliverables defined by Regulatory Organization and Ingredients Compliance CoE
• Advise business teams on best strategy to ensure new launchings and market growth
• Provide leadership and direction to S&T organizations to support best regulatory strategies
• Be accountable for Ingredients Data Excellence & Compliance policies
• Represent Givaudan in relevant trade associations

Lead Ingredients Compliance activities:

• Advise management on Chemical Regulatory Legislations developments relevant to Ingredients Compliance globally
• Ensure communication in the regulatory organization at Global, regional and local level
• Be accountable for compliance of ingredients information, Identification and assessment in compliance with existing
• legislation, corporate and industry guidelines
• Lead implementation of global, regional and local best practices resources in the implementation on Chemicals
• Management & Compliance subject matter topics policies and guidelines

You have:

• University degree in chemistry / biochemistry or equivalent. A PhD is a must.
• 10+ years of international experience in the area of expertise
• Business fluent in English, other language as French or German is an advantage
• At least 5 years of leadership experience in a global matrix organization
• Technical background in the relevant field
• Expert in building relationship with multiple partners globally
• Understanding of internal/external factors affecting Givaudan and its customers and industry benchmarks for quality,
• performance and reliability on the CoE
• Proven record in translating vision into action

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Givaudan is committed to equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications regardless of cultural and social background, gender, age, religion or sexual identity. 
We also have a safe working environment, progressive working conditions and are certified as an equal pay employer.