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INEOS Styrolution is the leading global styrenics supplier, with a focus on styrene monomer, polystyrene, ABS Standard and styrenic specialties. With world-class production facilities and more than 90 years of experience, INEOS Styrolution helps its customers succeed by offering solutions, designed to give them a competitive edge in their markets. At the same time, these innovative and sustainable best-in-class solutions help make the circular economy for styrenics a reality. The company provides styrenic applications for many everyday products across a broad range of industries, including automotive, electronics, household, construction, healthcare, packaging and toys/sports/leisure. In 2020, sales were at 4 billion euros. INEOS Styrolution employs approximately 3,600 people and operates 20 production sites in ten countries.

For our office in Frankfurt am Main we are looking for a

Global Product Steward 2 (f/m/d)  (f/m/d)

Organisational context and job purpose

Ensure compliance of current products and future developments and provide general regulatory support in the Global Regulatory Affairs group.

External / internal influencing factors:

• Product regulations are increasing in number and complexity across the world, particularly in Europe and Asia. We see increasing regulations in all areas, such as food contact, chemical control and classification and labelling legislation with rigorous demands for risk assessment and supporting documentation, with activities on a global as well as on a regional and local basis.
• Consumer product safety has come into a lot of focus. As a result, interaction with internal and external stakeholders has increased significantly. Our customers expect and require strong and competent regulatory support from us and this has become a key differentiating factor in the marketplace.
• In addition, we see increasing requirements to support regulatory aspects for the circular economy with major challenges on substance contamination control.
• INEOS Styrolution has around 3000 grades sold into the market. This provides very high complexity for regulatory issues
• INEOS Styrolution operates several different production processes leading to high regulatory complexity
• Areas such as food contact, medical, cosmetic packaging, Toys and drinking water are highly sensitive and demanding, requiring rigour precision and careful communication.
• The Global Regulatory Affairs/ Product Stewardship team takes over overarching tasks and many tasks that have a high level of complexity. The global team also has a regulatory compliance governance role. Overall, there is a stable trend of increasing complexity in Global Product Stewardship. Therefore, the position requires the ability to deal with complex requests and fast changing priorities and requires a high level of chemical expertise.
• Scientific risk assessment, both in-house and working with a range of external experts integrating analytical results from external laboratories along with advanced dedicated modelling, is of great importance to defend our products and to develop new markets
• This is a Global function,
  • It is therefore necessary to be aware of the global grade range and the important regulations affecting our products in the global context.
  • Interaction with different nationalities, with different working cultures and practices

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Project and workstream lead for major regulatory projects to mitigate regulatory risks (such as e.g. the 15th amendment of the EU FC regulations)
• Ensure compliance of our existing and future product range in the Product Stewardship area for our global product range. Responsibilities can cover a broad range of subjects such as:
  • Review and maintenance of compliance of existing food contact grades. This requires working with expert contractors and procurement to assess raw material and final product compliance
  • Migration modelling and testing
  • Coordination of studies at external laboratories required for important aspects of compliance and to support different regulatory dossiers
  • Global Product Regulatory IT tool content management and support for projects to enable high quality regulatory customer support and lean processes:
  • Support for Dangerous Goods and Pre-Cargo lists
  • Customer support for IMDS/CAMDS databases supporting the Automobile industry for Product Stewardship compliance
  • Chemical control and global inventory assistance
  • Safety datasheet and classification and labelling support
  • Developing and support regulatory aspects for the circular economy and our sustainability agenda
• Assessment of new product developments for regulatory compliance in target markets
• Responsibility for the compliance of raw materials with product safety regulatory requirements
  • Review of existing raw materials and the approval of new raw materials
  • Assessment of management of change procedures affecting product safety issues
• Monitoring of global developments and mitigating risks with respect to regulatory constraints around specific industries and applications. This requires working with businesses to jointly assess the risks on specific product lines
• Advisory and consultancy role in regulatory matters for the business organization
• Develop strategies with the Global Product Stewardship Manager to address regulatory trends
• Participates actively in certain industry committees to address specific regulatory concerns and trends and to interpret and apply legislation as an industry
• Provides support to businesses to answer customer requests concerning regulatory affairs if the consumer safety specialists in the businesses cannot address the question directly. Customer contact will be through the consumer safety specialists in the business..
  • Developing actions, processes, tools and plans to address specific customer requests and issues in relation to industry and consumer safety regulatory developments

Skills & Knowledge Required

Education/Experience

• PhD Chemist, or science subject with significant chemistry to understand regulatory issues, experience in R&D / Product Development an advantage
• 2-5 years in Regulatory areas for a PhD Chemist, 1 to 2 years Plastic product regulatory issues would be an advantage

Skills/Competencies

    Technical skills:

• Experience in process engineering in polymerisation processes.
• Detailed knowledge of polymer technology: kinetics (co)polymerisation, structure- mechanical properties relationships.
• Detailed knowledge of process equipment: reactor design, agitation, centrifugation, drying and extrusion.
• Experience with process modelling tools (e.g. AspenPlus) is desirable

        Competencies, behavorial skills:

• Excellent team worker
• Excellent attention to detail but ability to see / explain ‘forest rather than trees’
• Ability to work under heavy pressure to deliver as required
• Persistence to follow through highly complex issues

Line Management Responsibility

N/A

If you have any question, please contact Cornelia Koecke  phone +49 69 5095501200.

INEOS Styrolution Group GmbH, Mainzer Landstraße 50, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany 

www.ineos-styrolution.com