Position Responsibilities
1. Cross-Border Regulatory Compliance (Import & Export)
- Lead regulatory assessment across full flow: source (i.e. China) > Malaysia > destination markets
- Ensure compliance across ingredients, packaging materials, and lifestyles/non-food items.
- Identify regulatory conflicts and define resolution (reformulation, material change, labeling update, or market restriction)
- Review and validate supplier compliance assessments, translate findings into actionable directions for stakeholders (Product / Supply Chain / Packaging / Supplier)
2. Ingredient & Formulation Compliance
- Review and validate ingredient compliance across source countries, Malaysia import and export destination countries.
- Support supporting document for flow of goods needs.
- Ensure ingredients meet multi-country regulatory acceptance.
3. Packaging, Material and Non-Food Product Compliance
- Validate compliance of food-contact and non-food-contact materials (e.g. cups, lids, straws, merchandise, lifestyle items)
- Review material composition against country-specific regulations (e.g. plastics, coatings, heavy metals, restricted substances)
- Ensure compliance with food contact safety standards, migration limits, and general product safety requirements
- Assess user safety risks (e.g. choking hazards, sharp edges, material safety for consumer use)
- Support development of compliant specifications for regional deployment
4. Labelling & Content Compliance (All Categories)
- Review and approve labeling for Ingredients (food products), packaging / non-food items (warnings, instructions, material declarations where required)
- Ensure compliance with country-specific labeling formats, language requirements, and mandatory disclosures
- Validate accuracy of claims (halal, nutritional, marketing, product safety warnings).
5. Build Internal Awareness on Multi-Category Regulatory Requirements
- Develop and maintain clear regulatory guidelines, playbooks, and tools to support consistent interpretation across ingredients, packaging, and product safety requirements
- Provide training, advisory, and regulatory updates to cross-functional teams, ensuring requirements are correctly understood and applied in product development and market deployment
6. Authority Liaison & Regulatory Submission
- Liaise with authorities and consultants for both food and product safety regulations
- Support product registration, documentation, and regulatory approvals
7. Halal & Certification Compliance (Cross-Border)
- Ensure halal compliance for ingredients across source, Malaysia, and export markets
- Validate certification recognition and scope alignment.
- Flag risks where material or ingredient source impacts halal status
Qualification and Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Food Science, Food Technology, Regulatory Affairs, Chemistry, or related field
- Strong foundation infood regulations, food additives, labeling, and/or product safety (food contact materials)
- Exposure tomulti-country regulatory frameworks(e.g. import/export requirements, labeling standards)
- Familiarity withhalal requirements and certification frameworksis an added advantage
- 5–8 years in regulatory affairs withstrong experience in multi-country ingredient compliance
- Proven experience reviewingsupplier-led compliance assessments and translating into business decisions
- Experience in export markets (Middle East, South Asia, EU/UK, SEA preferred)
- Strong understanding offood additives regulations across multiple countries
- Ability to critically assesssupplier compliance reports and challenge technical assumptions
- Strong capability incross-country regulatory comparison and gap analysis
- Good commercial awareness to balance compliance with rollout strategy
- Strong ownership, able to make clear compliance decisions (approve / reject / restrict)
- Analytical and structured to assess multi-country requirements and identify gaps
- Confident communicator to manage suppliers and align stakeholders
- Detail-oriented, attentive to regulatory differences and compliance risks
- Practical and solution-driven, strive to balance compliance with business needs
- Adaptable to operate in fast-paced, multi-market environment.
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