Job Description:

Location: Aimargues (30 min from Montpellier in the South of France)

Segment: Royal Canin

Contract Type: Permanent (CDI)

The Royal Canin Regulatory Affairs function is pivotal in ensuring our health-through-nutrition solutions are accessible worldwide. We achieve this by embedding compliance into innovation from the outset, maintaining ongoing product conformity, advocating for science-based regulatory frameworks, and safeguarding the reputation of Royal Canin and its customers.

As the Head of Global Innovation & Portfolio Compliance, you lead a team of Regulatory professionals acting as representatives of the Regulatory function in all projects & activities either aiming at maintaining the current portfolio of products & associated communication compliant with an evolving regulation or working on developing innovative solutions for our core business which are compliant by design, future-proof and ready to be deployed worldwide.

This People Leader role ensures an effective, high performing, developing and engaged Global Innovation & Portfolio Regulatory Compliance organization.

This role is a key partner to senior leaders in R&D, Demand, and Commercial teams, ensuring that innovation at Royal Canin is not only pioneering but also compliant, sustainable, and trusted by customers and regulators worldwide.

What are we looking for?

• Master or equivalent Qualification in Project or Portfolio Management is a plus

• Min. 10 years professional experience, including 5 years' with hands-on experience in Regulatory Affairs in the Life Sciences industry. Previous experience as a people leader is a must.

Proven track record in defining novel approaches to enabling access the market of compliant products.

Proven track record of building collaborative, x-functional business relationships

• Ability to use experience base with intuition to chart the future in an ambiguous environment

• Visible leadership: Make the tough calls on quality, associates, budget, etc.

• Continuous improvement & solution-oriented mindset and ability to identify new opportunities where Regulatory can add value to the business.

• Ability to collaborate with/lead a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, global working groups and a broad cross-functional network.

• Excellent interpersonal and written and oral communication skills.

What would be your key responsibilities?

• Operationalizing the Company’s Regulatory Strategy, ensuring it meets the needs of the collaboration of the function with R&D, Demand and Commercial on projects & activities associated with Royal Canin core business.

• Responsible for selected product-related End2End compliance processes

• Responsible for the contribution of the Regulatory Function to global projects and activities aiming at maintaining the current portfolio of products & associated communication compliant with an evolving regulation or working on developing innovative solutions for our core business which are compliant by design future-proof and ready to be deployed worldwide.

Managing timelines and resources to achieve stated objectives, ensuring tracking tools and regulatory databases are maintained up to date.

Ensuring that the Global Innovation & Portfolio Regulatory Compliance team is staffed & organized to deliver on its mission and continuously improve its performance to meet the Business current and future needs.

• Accountable for ensuring effective team development through line management excellence behaviors and create opportunities for development of team and the wider Mars Scientific & Regulatory Affairs community.

• Accountable for recruitment, succession planning and managing performance. Define and develop the capability needs for the Global Innovation & Portfolio Regulatory Compliance organization to meet the needs of the business today and in the future. ·

• Contribute to best practices sharing & cross-training within the Regulatory Affairs network and create synergies across Mars segments.

• Identify, develop, manage and leverage an appropriate regional external network of experts and opinion leaders in the industry.

• Maintaining a broad knowledge of scientific, regulatory and policy environment in key markets across the globe.

• Leveraging cross-functional collaboration to ensure that businesses are guided on a sound regulatory basis, to define the appropriate regulatory strategy and resourced to support compliance as well as opportunity driven activities.

What can you expect from Mars?

• You will work in a multicultural environment (more than 40 nationalities) and where your dog will be welcomed by more than 100 other Associates’ dogs at the office!

• You will work in a unique campus, which gathers more than 800 Associates working for: the international HQ, the French subsidiary, two laboratories, a kennel and a cattery with more than 200 cats & dogs, and finally the most important factory of the Royal Canin group

• Since 2017, Royal Canin has supported the K-DOG program of the Curie Institute, which trains dogs to detect breast cancer via olfaction

• A unique and ideal work environment to become the leader in health through nutrition for cats and dogs!

Royal Canin's CSR commitments, to build a better world for tomorrow:

• Since 2015, no waste to landfill is made by the 16 Royal Canin factories in the world

• All Royal Canin products manufactured in Europe are ISO 14001 certified from design to factory gate

• Since 2017, Royal Canin has supported the K-DOG program of the Curie Institute, which trains dogs to detect breast cancer via olfaction.