Product Stewardship Analyst

Job Description

This role provides regulatory and product stewardship support for the GI business across the EMEAI region. The postholder acts as a subject matter expert on relevant regulations, completing independent regulatory reviews, impact assessments, and compliance strategies, while supporting sites, projects, and export destinations. The role serves as the primary point of contact for legislative and product safety matters, responds to customer and agency inquiries, represents the business externally where appropriate, and leads continuous improvement initiatives, projects, and training to ensure robust compliance and business support.

Responsibilities

Regulations and regulation review: Articulate and apply regulatory requirements relevant for the GI business in the EMEAI region and export destinations. Collaborate with regional colleagues to define aligned approach towards compliance with relevant regulations. Develop compliance strategies for the GI business and sites. Complete regulation reviews and impact assessments without supervision. Act as the subject matter expert on regulations relevant for the GI business. Work in the internal Task Force for the evaluation of received exposure scenarios.

Company Representation: Where appropriate, act as S‑W Product Stewardship representative with outside parties such as trade associations, service provider working groups or professional association.

Data entry/integrity and system support: Define business rules for data evaluation. Drive improvement initiatives for systems. Support reporting from legacy systems used at GI sites for complete impact assessments.

Customer and Business Support

Customer inquiries: Respond to routine, non‑routine and complex requests for internal and external customers independently and as part of the business stewardship customer request team.

Respond and report to agencies: Develop responses to Agency inquiries for review by manager and the legal team.

Business and data support: Serve as the single point of contact to the GI business for the whole EMEAI region on legislative, regulatory and product safety issues. Provide support to R&D, Marketing, Sales, Customers and other stakeholders of the GI business. Provide strategic support to the GI business based on regulatory requirements. Monitor and articulate issues which will impact S‑W products or our customers through annual substitution planning, ad‑hoc impact assessments and regular communication. Represent Product Stewardship in project meetings.

Continuous Improvement

Process improvements: Identify areas of process improvement and communication. Assist in defining process or system changes necessary to address new or changing regulations. Continuously increase knowledge on available IT tools and put them to use for continuous process improvements.

Projects: Lead complex product stewardship projects. Participate in less complex cross‑functional projects.

Training: Provide training and seminars for business team members or other groups within S‑W on current trends in product stewardship.

Qualifications

Formal Education

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution in a physical science or engineering.
• Preferred: Master’s Degree from an accredited institution in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, or a related field.

Knowledge & Experience

• Required: Internal – Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a Product Stewardship function or equivalent experience in related fields.
• Required: External – Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Product Stewardship / Regulatory Affairs.
• Experience managing chemical raw material and finished goods regulatory requirements in the EMEAI region (e.g., REACH, CLP).
• Experience handling customer inquiries.

Preferred

• 6 years’ experience in a Product Stewardship function or equivalent experience in related fields.
• Experience with global regulatory requirements.
• Experience within the paint & coatings or chemical industry.
• Experience supporting industrial and professional products.

Technical / Skill Requirements

• Required: Skilled use of IT applications, including regulatory, product formulation, and ERP systems.
• Required: Strong data analysis skills.
• Required: Fluent in English.
• Preferred: Product development experience.
• Preferred: Project management experience.

Eligibility to Work

You will need to provide proof of right to work. It is a condition of any offer of employment we make to you that you have the permission to work in the country for the role for which you are applying for.

Equal Opportunity Employer

An equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, colour, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, or any other protected characteristic prohibited by law.