Regulatory Advisor – Food & Non-Food

Ashbury College

Regulatory Advisor ensuring compliance of product information with legislation for food and non-food sectors. Providing risk-based advice and supporting product launches in a fully remote position.

Posted 5/2/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Review product information across a range of categories, ensuring compliance with legislation, customer policies and industry guidance.
Provide clear, risk-based advice that enables clients to launch products safely, competitively and efficiently.
Use your regulatory knowledge to question, challenge and guide clients, suppliers and colleagues, ensuring due diligence is met and decisions are compliant with the law.
Accountable for delivering accurate, timely and high-quality advice that supports confident, compliant product launches.
Carry out product information services, such as formulation, regulatory adaptations, specification/pack copy review, artwork review, alignment, and branded product reviews for compliance, as required.
Provide regulatory advice to Ashbury and its clients, to ensure products are legally compliant.
Research and horizon scanning for changes and developments, which effect the regulatory landscape in which Ashbury and our clients operate.
Review and advise changes to Ashbury clients’ policies, considering new regulations, guidance, and codes of practice.
Client customer compliant management, writing responses and managing escalated and/or serious complaints.
Providing risk-based recommendations to complaints/enforcement challenges for Ashbury clients.
Leading/supporting a client through a product recall/withdrawal process, producing information to support this process where required.
Liaise with central & local government agencies and industry bodies, i.e., OPSS, FSA/FSAI, Primary Authorities, laboratories, BRC, BSI and ASA etc.
Delivering training on regulatory & technical topics to Ashbury and its clients.
Developing relationships with client Technical/Regulatory decision makers, influencing, discussing and debating regulatory matters.
Attend client meetings to discuss Regulatory affairs.
Producing expert opinion content on subject matters, as required for marketing and training purposes.
Presenting expert opinion on subject matters internally and externally.
Keeping up to date with legal requirements and labelling policies and ensuring the dissemination of information within the business.
Maintaining and growing your expertise in one or more subject areas.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum 3 years of experience of working in a regulatory role within industry or trading standards/enforcement or in a related field
Fluent in spoken and written English
Demonstrable experience of independent working, managing your own workload and time management
Demonstrable risk-based decision making
Confident to apply requirements to product information and communicating decisions to clients.
Deep regulatory expertise in one area (either food or non-food) and strong working knowledge in the other with the capability and appetite to grow
Experience applying legislation, customer policies and codes of practice to real product information.
Excellent oral, written communication skills, including IT and presentation skills
Able to explain complex requirements in a simple way
Able to risk assess a situation, providing a risk appropriate solution which resolves the issue.
Ability to research and gather information using available resources
Welcomes guidance and understands the commercial environment
Stress resilient and able to work against tight deadlines
Positive approach to opportunities to develop into new areas as Ashbury grows.

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 days annual leave plus public holidays as standard*
Additional annual leave depending on length of service
Option to buy or sell additional annual leave
Charity day and time off to support your favourite charity
Payroll Charity giving scheme
Cycle to Work scheme and much more!

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Hard Skills & Tools

regulatory compliancerisk-based decision makingproduct information servicesformulation reviewspecification reviewartwork reviewregulatory adaptationsproduct recall managementhorizon scanninglegal requirements application

Soft Skills

independent workingtime managementoral communicationwritten communicationpresentation skillscomplex requirement explanationresearch skillsstress resiliencerelationship buildingclient management