AVP - Chemical Safety & Regulatory Affairs - EHS

Position: AVP - Chemical Safety and Regulatory affairs

Reporting To (Desig): SVP

Division/Department: EHS

Title: AVP - Chemical Safety and Regulatory Affairs

Experience: 15+ years

Job Summary:

Candidate will have the necessary experience of providing the chemical management and control services deliverables for the chemical and materials/Food and beverages/automotive sectors.

This role holder is expected to perform the following core responsibilities.

Key responsibilities include:

- Thorough deep knowledge and subject-matter experience across the EHS spectrum, assisting the SVP in formulating and implementation of the EHS business strategy & development;

- Implement the Business plan for the financial year to meet the defined financial, operations, learning and process improvement goals;

- Management of all deliverables as per client contract for existing and new clients around EHS Audits & reporting, EHS Risks & Controls, EHS Compliance management and Management systems development.

- Partner with the SVP in helping Clients transform business processes to help reduce & lower risks, aimed at an enhanced EHS Strategy, a more balanced & integrated risk focus and the integration of technology & advanced analytics that can ultimately lead to increased revenue.

- Responsible for scaling up the EHS capability/team, aimed at raising awareness amongst existing/new clients on reducing the risks and consequence of adverse impact on EHS ; assisting in fresh hiring & grooming young talent ; Responsible for performance evaluation of reporting staff and for building up staff capability to support identified areas of growth.

- Be part of an expert team for researching chemical legislation compliance for global and regional regulatory functions to assist clients in meeting their chemical regulatory compliance, product stewardship and sustainability goals.

- Develop strategies for registration of client chemicals and products in various global geographies.

- Act as project manager for a portfolio of projects, developing and implementing project plans that involve generation of new data or issue management.

- Keep current with the changing regulatory environment and proactively communicate the potential impact of emerging regulations; Create and maintain regulatory information and documentation for compliance with country specific chemical legislation.

- Work in tandem with SVP to strategically enhance Inside Sales capacity over the longer term, keeping up with ever-increasing challenges. This includes growing Inside Sales capabilities, talent, work processes, tools and systems to improve the quality of product and efficiency of delivery.

- Maintain long-term and smooth relationships with clients by providing higher value and lower total cost to them through performance excellence.

Proposed attributes

- 10-15 years of experience in the chemical management and control service compliance industry. Project Delivery experience with service providers/consultancies in India and abroad would be highly desirable.

Qualification - A master's degree in environmental engineering/Chemistry/Toxicology / Food/FCM technologies from reputed institute. For exceptional candidates, bachelor's degree can also be considered for candidates with highly relevant experience.

- A good knowledge of market regulatory trends and the current and future state of the Indian and Global chemical outsourcing market is highly desirable.

- Experience and relationships working in or with global consultancy firms.

- Experience of building & leading diverse teams in the EHS arena, with the ability of display a broad spectrum of managerial / leadership styles.

- At least 5 years of similar demonstrated operations experience in a leadership role leading SME teams and major client accounts working with service providers.

- Ability to undertake domestic/ overseas travel is expected.

Location: - Mohali

Working Mode: - WFO