• Product Stewardship Assessment
  • Completing initial, periodic, and ad hoc reviews during the full life cycle of regulated products - from design and product testing, to launch and post-launch monitoring - for the current portfolio of products and pipeline across multiple regulatory jurisdictions including in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia/Pacific. Requesting, reviewing and interpreting test results, supplier documents and technical reports.
  • Confirming compliance and ensuring products can ship on time to their destined markets.
  • Keeping commercial teams informed of status of compliance assessments to enable timely product launch with appropriate sign-off.
  • Ensuring product teams are aware of new and upcoming regulations relevant for our customers.
• Regulatory Monitoring and Implementation
  • Monitoring regulatory and compliance developments and reporting to Compliance management
  • Supporting/developing global processes that integrate with business processes to ensure company products have access to worldwide markets. Steps include gathering input, authoring/circulating drafts, gaining necessary approvals, developing communications plans, and integrating the guidance into new or existing training
  • Establishing in-country stewardship program supported consistent with Corporate Product Stewardship processes; extensive engagement with Product Engineering, Quality and Purchasing
  • Work can also include support of corporate or multi-business unit Stewardship initiatives

• Learning to interpret and apply technical rules and regulatory requirements to our business
• Drafting relevant guidance bulletins and documents to communicate codes and regulations as well as their policy, application, and implication to the business
• Gaining expertise in select areas to support answering routine questions regarding policy and assisting in the assessment and implementation of new activities

• Risk Assessment and Management
  • Protecting product liability and regulatory exposure by participating in reviews, investigations, and other compliance monitoring and effectiveness assessments
  • Supporting the analysis of enterprise-wide regulatory risk environment by gathering and analyzing data on various compliance matters

• Relationship Building
  • Developing strong working relationships with key stakeholders within the organization including departments within the company and its subsidiaries, and outside the company, including business partners and testing labs to inform on company standards and applicable regulations

• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• Four to six years of experience
• Legislative and regulatory compliance experience
• Ability to review and interpret regulations
• Familiarity with use of laboratories for testing. The ability to read test reports is a plus
• Knowledge of chemical constituents is a plus
• Product compliance and /or furniture industry experience is a plus
• Unwavering ethics and integrity, and an ability to stand firm on issues with independence with a passion for protecting people, property, and the environment
• Self-motivated, well-organized, and able to multi-task
• Analytical and solutions- and detail-oriented
• Understanding of how to prioritize the appropriate work and plans to deliver on commitments and to recognize when you must adapt to change
• Strong analytical, written, and communication skills
• Experience with regulatory or policy drafting or writing, as well as training and presentation experience is a plus
• Ability to translate and communicate complex concepts clearly
• Ability to maintain a global perspective and work with diverse colleagues across various jurisdictions
• Strong interpersonal and team skills, with a collaborative and learning mindset
• Ability to take every opportunity to learn; not afraid to test your knowledge by testing your approach with your more learned colleagues; seek to grow and be challenged, including teaching others
• Ability to identify efficient and effective ways to accomplish a task; seeking to find a better way to do things both within our team and across the organization; not afraid to make a suggestion
• Spoken and written foreign language skills, esp. English, required. Chinese language skills, a plus