Chemical Registration & Substances of Concern Director
AstraZeneca
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Macclesfield • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Join AstraZeneca as a global technical expert leading a team delivering chemical registration and REACH activities across the enterprise.
- Provide expert technical advice on chemical registration for complex and novel issues across the global business, ensuring compliance with external regulations and legal requirements.
- Lead AstraZeneca processes relating to chemical registration during development, commercialisation and manufacturing of final products and ensuring licence to operate.
- Represent AstraZeneca externally with regulators, key industry groups or with relevant professional bodies influencing external regulations and benchmarking AstraZeneca performance and practices.
- Engage with senior level leadership, contributing to leading, managing and developing important initiatives.
- Investigate current and future regulatory needs, communicating them appropriately and translating them into specific requirements.
- Identify and lead improvement initiatives in support of longer-term business strategy within own specialism.
- Develop, manage, or support in developing training programmes for own area expertise.
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure best practices are integrated internally and collaborates closely with external specialised bodies and advisory councils.
- Monitor regulatory changes, ensuring foresight, actively engaging with industry counterparts to support specific regulation lobbying for minimal impact and risk mitigation.
Requirements
- University degree; Graduate in the biological/chemical sciences or equivalent
- Significant expertise in Global Chemical Legislation, in particular REACH, CLP and GHS
- Extensive experience in chemical regulations
- Project management, change management and people management skills
- Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and develop high‑performing teams.
- Strong people management skills, with a track record of coaching, mentoring, and talent development
- Ability to effectively interface with senior executive management level of the company
- Good working knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry
- Communication skills and ability to influence others
- Comfortable with risk and ambiguous situations
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Influencing and negotiating skills
- Leadership skills, including proven leadership of global cross-functional project teams
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
chemical registrationREACHCLPGHSregulatory complianceproject managementchange managementpeople managementtraining programme developmentrisk mitigation
Soft skills
leadershipcoachingmentoringtalent developmentcommunicationinfluencingnegotiatingrelationship buildingteam developmentstrategic thinking