EIMEA Regulatory Data Steward Porto

EIMEA Regulatory Data Steward
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

As the largest pureplay adhesives company in the world, H. B. Fuller’s (NYSE: FUL) innovative, functional coatings, adhesives and sealants enhance the quality, safety and performance of products people use every day. Founded in 1887, with 2023 revenue of $3. 5 billion, our mission to Connect What Matters is brought to life by more than 7, 000 global team members who collaborate with customers across more than 30 market segments in over 140 countries to develop highly specified solutions that enable customers to bring
- changing innovations to their end markets.

Position Overview:

The Global Regulatory Process Stewardship team’s stated objective is to support our external and internal customers and other constituencies through regulatory compliance. The data steward will be responsible for our regulatory system maintenance, raw material and product compliance for H. B. Fuller’s business in the EIMEA region (Europe, India, Middle East and Africa). Duties include SAP system work, and reviews for approving new raw materials. In this position the ability to collaborate and communicate across disciplines, functions and regions is highly valued.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage EIMEA requests regarding raw materials and ingredient pools.
• Manage, create, update and maintain substances, raw materials and ingredient pools.
• Request and organize data from raw material suppliers to support global regulations.
• Monitor and interpret global regulations and determine how the regulations affect our substances, raw materials, formulated materials, customer applications, and the product’s end use.
• Support the management of our internal product lifecycle management systems to ensure that additions, updates, and maintenance being performed by other departments within H. B. Fuller do not compromise any aspects of existing regulatory compliance statuses.
• Seek out and report as appropriate to business and technology teams on industry/government news (going beyond chemical regulatory and into world and application trends).
• Develop relationships with the Global regulatory, and EIMEA R&D, Sourcing and EHS colleagues by working together in a collaborative manner.
• Implement and innovate efficient regulatory data management processes to improve response time to requests.
• Manage Regulatory holds within EIMEA region.
• Support SAP implementations and dual maintenance.
• Be guided by the objectives and goals established for the processes, determine actions to achieve the objectives set, analyze the performance of the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) according to the defined frequency, establish and monitor actions and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Follow H. B. Fuller's Ethics, Quality, Safety, Health and Environment policies.

Minimum Requirements:

• Degree in chemistry or similar areas.
• Experience with Regulatory and/or R&D functions.
• Advanced communication skills in English (verbal and written).
• Ability to present ideas effectively and communicate well with all levels of management within a team environment on a variety of programs and projects.
• Well organized.
• Able to work under pressure, manage competing demands, and meet tight deadlines with strong
  - through.
• MS Office experience.
• Experience with SAP applications (preferably).