Senior Consultant - SDS Author

Description

• 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)
• 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.
• 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.
• Providing extensive technical knowledge especially in the area of SDS authoring, undertaking authoring work using Ricardo’s 3rd party SDS authoring software.
• Providing expert technical consultancy input to support the growth and development and evolution of our SDS Authoring Services, developing new consultancy solutions to emerging regulatory changes.
• Undertaking a range of Safety Data Sheet authoring for a variety of clients, with wider support to other technical areas including REACH, Poison Centre notifications etc.
• Supporting the personal development of other members of the team across these technical areas and management skills.
• Contribute ideas to the development of business strategy with respect to regulatory consultancy.
• Performing and managing high quality technical consultancy in the field of chemical regulatory affairs.
• Liaising with marketing and sales staff to ensure effective promotion of Ricardo’s capabilities in support of sales activities to grow these areas.
• Reviewing SDS Authored by the team providing feedback, then working with them to improve the quality of deliverables, both directly and through procedural changes.
• Identifying and helping to take forward opportunities that are uncovered through the technical work e.g. through technical conversations around Safety Data Sheets uncovering where the customer may require additional support in REACH, Poison Centres and Emergency Response or training opportunities and working with the sales team to close these.

Requirements

• Have an extensive background in supply regulations (and potentially transport regs as well); safety data sheet authoring, understanding how to classify both substances and mixtures and author a fully compliant safety data sheet, expert knowledge of REACH and knowledge of Poison centres desirable but not a necessity.
• Have and maintain expert knowledge of the regulations affecting the worldwide chemical industry, in particular supply regulations GHS and CLP.
• Be an excellent communicator and used to presenting your ideas and project outputs to customers and ideally at regulatory conferences.
• Have the ability to manage and influence people effectively and/ or delegate work to others.
• Competent SDS author experience in across multiple jurisdictions (USA, EU, UK, Japan, China, Korea etc.), including extended-SDS.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance