Job Summary
Coordinate with Global and Asia Regulatory to prepare dossier and information to obtain approval of Kalsec products, mainly Food Protection line, with Asia Food Authorities. As part of Asia Regulatory Affairs Team, provide support on the compliance with regulatory mandates and appropriate religious dietary laws for products marketed and sold in Asia. Work with local regulatory agencies and personnel on specific issues affecting food ingredients. Provide support for customer complaints on pesticide and regulatory issues. Provide quality systems and regulatory product support for internal and external customer requests. The position may be based in any ASEAN country.
Essential Job Functions:
- Fulfill regulatory, quality and technical requests in a timely manner from both internal and external customers and file responses if needed. Manage the reporting of product information using standard templates to fulfill customer inquiries.
- Monitor, understand and summarize regulatory changes pertaining to food and food ingredient use in Asia Pacific, share summaries with other Kalsec regulatory functions and relevant departments affected by the change
- Evaluate and provide Kalsec with interpretation of regulatory trends and patterns that could affect Kalsec operations.
- Research and develop company statements in response to regulatory and quality requirements from customers and in response to industry events.
- Compare proposed company statements against other records and standards, verifying consistency and accuracy.
- Collect and use data on departmental performance to make recommendations for continuous process improvement.
- Accurately maintain product information databases to help guide the development of products.
- Research and review information about ingredients used in finished products and raw materials and entering data into databases.
Education/Experience/Skills:
Required
- Bachelor's degree in food science/ chemistry or equivalent combination of education and regulatory experience in the food industry.
- More than 8 years of food industry experience in Regulatory Affairs with regional exposure
- Demonstrated ability working in teams to manage quick turnaround times in high volume, high variety, open office environment while meeting aggressive deadlines
- Strong organizational and computer skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to work in a professional manner with customers and colleagues by telephone, e-mail and in person and ability to work cross functionally with other departments to complete requests.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Must be detailed and accurate with strong demonstrated proof reading and reference checking skills
- Experience with research and investigation of quality and regulatory questions and concerns and preparing professional and potentially legally binding written responses
This job description is not intended to cover every detail or every aspect of the job identified. Other duties may and will be assigned based upon the workload and needs of the department.
