Manager, Product Stewardship – Regulatory Affairs

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Act as the key internal authority on global hardware and chemical control regulatory frameworks.

• Safeguard global market accessibility and ensure business continuity through prompt and justifiable regulatory choices.

• Spearhead the interpretation, execution, and governance of chemical and product compliance responsibilities across various regions.

• Oversee the PSRA business systems, data architecture, and advanced analytics capabilities.

• Convert regulatory requirements into scalable digital controls, automated workflows, and AI-supported decision-making.

• Integrate regulatory intelligence into product, supply chain, and customer-facing processes via the Stage Gate process.

• Guarantee ongoing global compliance of fire suppression hardware and chemical agent products in all served markets.

• Serve as the regulatory decision authority for complex or high-risk global compliance matters.

• Direct the regulatory strategy for high-complexity new product introductions (NPI), sustaining products, and significant material or supplier changes.

• Provide scalable, system-enabled regulatory intelligence utilizing modern business platforms and AI-driven tools.

• Anticipate and address emerging regulatory risks to mitigate impacts on business, supply chains, and product safety.

• Lead the interpretation and application of global chemical and hardware regulatory frameworks, including TSCA, REACH, RoHS, WEEE, CPSC, Proposition 65, CE/UKCA, DSL/NDSL, SCIP, and similar APAC and LATAM regulations.

• Manage global regulatory impact assessments and compliance pathways for both new and updated regulations.

• Develop strategies for substance restrictions, material declarations, labeling, documentation, and customer disclosures.

• Act as the regulatory escalation point for audits, customer questions, and enforcement-related issues.

• Integrate regulatory requirements into initial product design, architecture, and material selection processes.

• Ensure compliance throughout the entire lifecycle, considering manufacturing changes, obsolescence, and end-of-life responsibilities.

• Offer regulatory guidance for scaling up, process modifications, and global supply chain transitions.

• Create, manage, and enhance PSRA digital platforms that support chemical management, product compliance, supplier data, and regulatory reporting.

• Serve as the PSRA business owner for IT and data science projects, defining system requirements and priority roadmaps.

• Design, develop, and implement AI-driven capabilities for regulatory horizon scanning, SDS and material risk assessment, predictive compliance risk evaluation, and management of customer documentation and inquiries.

• Ensure governance, traceability, transparency, and audit readiness of regulatory data across systems.

• Establish global supplier compliance data standards and validation criteria.

• Promote digital integration of supplier material and chemical data.

• Ensure timely and accurate regulatory disclosures to customers, authorities, and certification bodies.

• Mentor PSRA team members on regulatory strategy, systems thinking, and decision-making based on risk assessment.

• Influence engineering, operations, and commercial leaders by integrating regulatory intelligence into decision workflows.

• Define KPIs, dashboards, and governance structures to evaluate global compliance health and system efficiency.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Engineering, Materials Science, Regulatory Science, Data Science, or a related technical field.

• 7–10+ years of experience in global regulatory affairs, product stewardship, or product compliance roles.

• Proven expertise in managing global chemical control and hardware regulatory obligations.

• Experience in designing or implementing AI, automation, or advanced analytics solutions in regulatory or compliance settings.

• In-depth knowledge of global chemical control and product regulatory frameworks.

• High proficiency in SAP and other business intelligence systems to extract necessary sales volume data for both chemical and hardware sectors.

• Strong proficiency in overall business data management systems.

• Capacity to balance regulatory strictness with practical, business-enabling solutions.

• Exceptional systems thinking skills coupled with advanced data literacy.

• Credibility and influence among technical, commercial, digital, and leadership stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to function as both regulatory authority and leader in digital transformation.

• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

• Candidates must reside and work within the U.S.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive bonus plan based on individual, group, and corporate performance.

• Comprehensive benefits package.