Biocides Expert Senior / Principal Regulatory Consultant

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Job description

Role Title: Biocides Expert Senior / Principal Regulatory consultant

Salary range: Dependent on relevant experience

Location: Various Uk Based role / applications

The National Chemical Emergency Centre (NCEC), founded over 4O years ago, is the market leading provider of chemical emergency response services globally, dealing with over 4,000 emergency calls a year on behalf of over 550 companies, including 50% of the largest chemical manufacturers in the world. We are recognised by our clients, the industry and our peers as being the premium provider of these services, and our reputation is based on the outstanding level of knowledge and technical expertise of our emergency response team.

Alongside the emergency response services, we also offer a range of regulatory compliance services (including REACH registration and representation, technical document authoring (SDS, etc.)), software packages for managing SDS and chemicals, as well as training and crisis consultancy and incident notification.

Today NCEC is part of Ricardo PLC's subsidiary company, Ricardo Energy & Environment; a leading sustainability consultancy combining energy, climate change, air quality, transport, water, environmental and our chemical risk expertise with strong marketing, IT and economics capability.

NCEC is seeking to significantly expand its regulatory consultancy offerings, taking advantage of new market opportunities. We are looking for a senior or principal consultant to lead much of our delivery and support sales and marketing. The role will be tailored to the skills and experience of the successful candidate alongside our existing team. You must have proven expertise in biocides regulations for both the EU at ECHA and national level, and GB biocides regulations. You must also be an expert communicator and customer project/relationship manager and will ideally have other niche technical skills.

Purpose:

NCEC offers a range of consultancy services to its ca. 1,000 customers in the chemical sectors, although its primary focus is on telephone-based chemical emergency response. Its customers are based internationally and are faced with many varied challenges beyond emergency response as a result of fast-changing chemical regulations such as CLP/GHS and REACH. In response, NCEC has developed a range of regulatory consultancy services which have supported these requirements over a number of years. These services include;

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SDS Authoring
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SDS Management software (incoming and outgoing SDS)
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REACH services
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Poison Centre notifications
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Training (including COSHH)
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DGSA, and Other bespoke consultancy projects

NCEC has a number of full time employees deployed on these projects, and a team of shift-based emergency responders who have chemistry degrees and regulatory knowledge so also contribute towards project delivery.

Key accountabilities:

The senior / principal regulatory consultant will be responsible for:

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Undertaking a range of client work including Biocide registrations and supporting other technical areas.
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You will likely bring your own expertise to the business to help us open up new consultancy offerings to existing or new potential customers.
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Providing extensive technical knowledge especially in the area of biocides and the use of the ECHA software R4BP 3.
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Providing expert technical consultancy input to support the growth and development of technical regulatory consultancy products and services.
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Providing management of project staff related to customers / consultants working on technical projects as agreed with the Product Managers for specific customer work (Managing the quality, accuracy and timeliness of deliverables).
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Supporting the personal development of other members of the team across these technical areas and management skills.
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Liaising with marketing and sales staff to ensure effective promotion of NCEC's capabilities in support of sales activities to grow these areas.
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Identifying and helping to take forward opportunities that are uncovered through the technical work e.g. through technical conversations around biocides uncovering where the customer may require additional support in REACH, Safety Data Sheets, Poison Centres and Emergency Response or training opportunities and working with the Business Area Manager and/or sales team to close these

Key competencies and experience:

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Have an extensive background in biocides regulations
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Expert knowledge in the registration process at ECHA, National level and GB.
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Expert user of the R4BP 3 software.
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Performing and managing high quality technical consultancy in the field of chemical regulatory affairs
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Have and maintain expert knowledge of the regulations affecting the worldwide chemical industry, in particular biocides regulations.
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Keep up to date with market trends and developments and provide technical support to colleagues in the development of new service offerings and creation of technical papers
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Contribute ideas to the development of business strategy with respect to regulatory consultancy
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Provide the product managers with management support to enable successful delivery of regulatory consultancy projects and fulfilment of personal development/ training needs for others in the team
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Be an excellent communicator and used to presenting your ideas and project outputs to customers and ideally at regulatory conferences
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Bring your own network of contacts from customers and stakeholder organisations
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Have the ability to manage and influence people effectively and/ or delegate work to others

Working here:

This is an exciting and rewarding place to work, with the opportunity to make a difference. You will have a fantastic opportunity to develop your career with us through our broad range of projects, mentoring opportunities and a personalised approach to your learning and development.

We are always keen to hear from people who have driven, ambition and a flair for innovative thinking. Ricardo Energy & Environment has an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here.

Our People are important to us and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including flexible working, carers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance programme.

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

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