5 Scientific and Regulatory Affairs (SRA) Innovation Program Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL
Mars is Hiring a Scientific and Regulatory Affairs (SRA) Innovation Program Manager Near Chicago, IL
This role creates and sustains a competitive advantage for Mars Wrigley and supports the achievement of its overall business goals by leading regulatory risk assessment and mitigation of global innovation projects in North America.
Through a high level of agility and independence, this role leads a variety of regulatory activities related to raw materials, finished products, labelling, and claims for global agile innovation launching in North America. This position proactively partners with innovation stakeholders and Regional SRA experts to identify potential regulatory risks and works to bring solutions to the table to enable innovation while ensuring compliance.
What are we looking for?
- Bachelor's degree (Master's degree preferred) in a technical area, such as food chemistry, nutrition, food science, biology, chemistry, or toxicology.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in scientific and/or regulatory compliance/affairs and/or a related technical area with food products or related product categories (such as food supplements, cosmetics, and natural health products) with proficiency in food law, nutrition policy, and regulatory affairs for North America.
- Experience working on large-scale regulatory compliance or regulatory affairs projects involving formulas, ingredients, and labelling.
- Demonstrated track record of working successfully across functions to achieve shared goals; and proven ability to interact cross-functionally at all levels within the organization.
- Serves as the SRA lead and primary point of contact for global agile innovation business stakeholders for issues and projects in North America
- Provides scientific and regulatory advice for claims, ingredient, recipe and labeling for innovation through cross-functional collaboration with Legal, Science & Technology and Quality. Brings solutions in addition to risk assessments
- Provides scientific and regulatory advice on route to market for new innovations, working with external experts where needed for new categories or channels
- Ensures leadership for compliance activities for test-and-learn launches to ensure that ingredients, claims, product and labeling are compliant with relevant market regulations. Partners with regional SRA teams to support the scale up
- Escalates and communicates key decision points, project highlights and key regulatory issues within the broader SRA Community and Leadership team to ensure proper governance.
- Establishes and works with relevant external technical consultants to ensure SRA project success criteria is achieved with highest level of quality and efficiency
- Executes workstreams in aligning ways of working with stakeholders, building internal capabilities and external capabilities, grounding stakeholders with basic regulatory knowledge, and establishing tools to enable speed and agility when partnering with the business for innovation
- Provide regulatory and strategic guidance to relevant innovation partners on existing, new, and emerging regulatory issues of interest and managing technical regulatory issues.
- Maintains up to date knowledge and impact on key developments in food law and policy via literature reviews, newsletters, conference attendance, and participation in professional association activities.
- Based on the business opportunity and value proposition of the innovation projects, leverages external network to bring external provocations and updates in the regulatory areas and beyond.
- Partners internally to understand priorities and impacts of developing legislation and aligns appropriate external positions. Represents the company with external partners to influence developing policy and legislation in line with our aligned positions in a proactive manner; takes leadership to materialize opportunities to support our growth plans
- Translate global inputs and regional inputs from regulatory issues topic charters to maintain internal Regulatory Issues Management dashboard to provide visibility to business stakeholders, and provide recommendations on actions to take to continue to protect our Freedom to Operate (F2O)
- Work with relevant technical teams working on F2O projects, to provide necessary SRA support and guidance
- Partner with internal stakeholders to understand priorities to identify SRA opportunities for proactive regulatory approvals and adjustments to be considered.
- Turn scientific and regulatory insight into foresight and build appropriate internal and external network to anticipate the impact on the business and shape the regulatory environment
- Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Job Summary
Full Time
$133k-176k (estimate)
06/05/2024
07/28/2024
mars.com
TALLAHASSEE, FL
>50,000
1952
$10B - $50B
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About Mars
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, ...we produce some of the worlds best-loved brands including DOVE, EXTRA, M&Ms, MILKY WAY, SNICKERS, TWIX, ORBIT, PEDIGREE, ROYAL CANIN, SKITTLES, WHISKAS, COCOAVIA, and 5; and take care of half of the worlds pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals, BluePearl, Linnaeus, Pet Partners, and VCA. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive. For more information, please visit www.mars.com. Follow us: facebook.com/mars, twitter.com/marsglobal, https://www.instagram.com/marsglobal/, youtube.com/mars, Mars, Incorporated is not responsible for any content or activity made available via third party sites or services. Page subject to: mars.com/legal mars.com/privacy
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