Sr Manager R&d Regulatory

**Position Title**:Sr Manager R&D Regulatory

**Position Type**: Regular - Full-Time

**Position Location**: Sao Paulo

**Requisition ID**: 33403

We know the importance that food plays in people's lives - the power it has to bring people, families and communities together. Our purpose is to bring enjoyment to people’s lives through great tasting food, in a way which reflects our values.

The position supports the region’s commercial goals and includes key day-to-day business continuity activities, e.g. formula reviews, marketing and nutrition claim exploration, global product commercialization. The position also supports long-term strategies and projects to advance McCain’s regional and global business plans, e.g. clean label alternatives, removing technical barriers to trade, positively influencing regulatory initiatives, among others.

The Sr. Manager Regulatory Affairs is also responsible to represent & defend McCain activities with external stakeholders. The role is expected to be 80% internally focused on supporting the regional R&D, Quality, Marketing & business operations. The other 20% will be externally focused and include work in Technical Committees of Trade Associations or other organizations.

This role reports into the Director R&D of LATAM, dotted-line reporting to the Global Leader of Scientific & Regulatory Affairs. This role is responsible for managing a small team of Regulatory Affairs specialists with direct line accountabilities.

**Job Duties & Activities**

**Responsibilities and Accountabilities**

**Product compliance
- Interprets legislation requirements, shares industry best practices and recommends regulatory positions.- Develops and maintains regional procedures to approve product formulas, ingredients, labels, and other marketing material aligned with business requirements.
- Consults with Government Relations/External Affairs (GR/EA) on sensitive marketing claims.
- Suppots business partners (Procurement, R&D, Marketing, etc.) on new product development, product reformulations, product claims exploration and label redesigns as needed to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Manages regulatory approval procedure, leveraging external consultant where necessary to support expertise.
- Conducts regulatory risk assessments (regulatory investigation, data collection, industry calibration, etc.) in collaboration with other cross-functional teams, e.g. Global Regulatory, QA/Food Safety, Legal, GR/EA teams. Coordinates special regulatory label/product non-compliance situations to resolution.
- Advocates and sponsors change management or training initiatives to support cross-functional team members and their contribution to regulatory compliance for continued efficiency and accuracy.

**Legislation Watch & Response
- Keeps abreast of emerging legislation on key topics such as product composition, ingredients, and food labelling requirements.
- Communicates and works with cross-functional team members to estimate impact and evaluate state of readiness.- Identifies strategies to influence regulatory outcomes.
- Mitigates potential impact through early interventions.
- Coordinates implementation of regulatory directives.
- Monitors and communicates regional emerging legislation to Food Safety team members on microbiological parameters, food contaminants, and Food Safety Management programs.

**Commercial Projects and Global Regulatory initiatives**
- Liaises with Global and other regional regulatory contacts to review compliance on export/import requirements for lift-and-launch operations and facilitates product flows across different markets.
- Works closely with regional R&D teams and other regional regulatory counterparts to ensure proactive assessment of product design compatibility and anticipate future geographical expansions.
- Supports regulatory evaluations for new global ingredients or technology solutions.
- Supports McCain’s Global Regulatory Agenda: Collaborates in the areas of Global Compliance Check documents, Global Issues Management, monitoring and responding to International emerging legislation

**Other regulatory activities**
- Provide support to GR/EA on technical aspects of crisis management related to food labelling and use of ingredients.
- Supports the Acrylamide Management program for LATAM.
- Generates, coordinates, or supports responses to customers or Government requests in collaboration with other cross-functional teams (e.g. QA/Food Safety, Legal, GR/EA teams), where appropriate.
- Coordinates Government approvals/registrations as needed.
- Leads and executes non-routine regulatory activities or business projects that require investigation, interpretation, and recommendation for decision making (for example, position statements, claims related language or other sensitive labeling topics).
- Responsible for driving and providing oversight for transformational projects in line with developing effective LATAM regulatory procedures and performance.

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