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Your Role:
**We are open to considering candidates located in the Columbus, OH Metroplex AND the New York City Metroplex**
The Manager, Global Regulatory Affairs is responsible for leading regulatory strategy and execution across the product lifecycle to ensure compliant, efficient, and successful commercialization of beauty products in global markets. This role serves as both a technical regulatory expert and a cross-functional integrator, translating complex regulatory requirements-including formulation, claims, and packaging-related regulations-into clear, actionable business guidance.
The Manager partners closely with Product Development, R&D, Packaging, Safety, Quality, Legal, and Commercialization teams to embed regulatory and packaging requirements early in development, improve decision-making, and reduce downstream risk. In addition to supporting global market expansion and compliance execution, this role plays a key part in enhancing regulatory processes, strengthening cross-functional alignment, and enabling a more proactive, risk-based operating model.
Your Impact
Global Regulatory Strategy & Product Compliance
• Lead regulatory support for global product launches, reformulations, and portfolio maintenance across key markets.
• Conduct market-specific regulatory assessments (ingredients, claims, labeling, and packaging compliance) to identify requirements, risks, and necessary adaptations.
• Coordinate and execute regulatory submissions and notifications (e.g., CPNP, SCPN, and other global frameworks), ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Provide clear regulatory guidance to support product development, claims strategy, labeling, and packaging design decisions (e.g., required warnings, recyclability claims, material restrictions, and symbol usage).
• Support post-market compliance activities, including regulatory inquiries, documentation updates, and issue resolution across product
Regulatory Risk Translation & Decision Support
• Translate evolving regulations and emerging issues into clear business requirements and actionable plans.
• Conduct impact assessments across formulation, claims, labeling, and packaging materials and formats to define required actions, timelines, and ownership.
• Support portfolio and launch decisions by clarifying regulatory risks, tradeoffs, and timing considerations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to embed regulatory requirements early in product development (concept, claims, formulation, packaging design, and pre-quant stages).
• Improve requirement clarity and timing to reduce late-stage rework and market-entry risk.
• Identify gaps in process, ownership, and handoffs, and drive improvements that strengthen execution discipline across product and packaging workflows.
Global Market Enablement & Emerging Issues
• Monitor global regulatory developments and enforcement trends impacting cosmetics and packaging (e.g., sustainability regulations, plastic reduction laws, labeling updates).
• Lead impact assessments and communicate implications to stakeholders, including Packaging, Product Development, and Commercial teams.
• Collaborate with external partners, consultants, and suppliers to ensure alignment with regulatory expectations for both product and packaging components.
Operational Excellence & Process Transformation
• Drive continuous improvement in regulatory processes, tools, and ways of working to enhance efficiency, consistency, and scalability across product and packaging compliance.
• Support development of SOPs, governance models, and tracking systems that improve visibility and accountability for regulatory and packaging requirements.
• Strengthen documentation workflows and data integrity, including specifications related to packaging materials, labeling, and environmental compliance.
• Contribute to building a more integrated, proactive product and packaging compliance model across the organization.
Leadership & Cross-Functional Influence
• Provide guidance, coaching, and mentorship to junior regulatory team members, supporting both technical regulatory and packaging compliance capabilities.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders, including Packaging, Product Development, and Commercial teams, without direct authority to drive alignment and shared accountability.
• Facilitate discussions that clarify requirements, resolve ambiguity, and improve decision quality-particularly where regulatory and packaging considerations intersect.
• Promote knowledge sharing by translating regulatory and packaging requirements into practical insights and tools for broader teams.
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• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 5-7+ years of regulatory affairs or similar experience within cosmetics, personal care, or a related regulated industry.
• Strong knowledge of global cosmetic regulations (e.g., FDA/MoCRA, EU Cosmetics Regulation) and familiarity with packaging-related regulatory requirements (e.g., labeling rules, environmental and materials regulations).
• Experience supporting global product launches, regulatory submissions, and compliance activities.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex regulatory or technical information into clear business guidance.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and influence without direct authority.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and systems-thinking skills.
Preferred
• Familiarity with emerging regulatory topics, including sustainability, environmental packaging regulations, recyclability requirements, and claims substantiation for packaging.
• Experience improving processes, implementing tools, or driving operational efficiencies.
• Prior experience mentoring or supporting development of junior team members.
**We are open to considering candidates located in the Columbus, OH Metroplex AND the New York City Metroplex**
We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws. Please see links: California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Philadelphia Fair Chance Law, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance
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