Senior Regulatory Specialist

The goal of this team is to ensure innovation and supply at the right price, with sustainability and quality as our guiding stars in product development. Are you ready to join them with your expertise?

As Senior Regulatory Specialist for Southeast Asia (SEA) and new markets, you ensure that products can be launched and remain compliant across a dynamic and expanding international market portfolio. You translate complex country requirements into clear, scalable compliance solutions and lead product registration, notification and market-entry activities from regulatory assessment through execution and maintenance.

• CHO Herengracht Amsterdam
• 40 hours

At senior level, you act as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor. You independently shape approaches where no established framework exists, lead complex cross-functional workstreams and strengthen the capability of colleagues through knowledge sharing and coaching.

Purpose of the role

Key accountabilities

• Own end-to-end regulatory readiness for assigned SEA markets and selected new-country launches, including requirements assessment, registration, notification, listing and post-market maintenance.
• Develop practical market-entry compliance strategies, roadmaps and requirements frameworks, translating regulatory complexity into clear actions, decisions and timelines for the business.
• Assess product and portfolio compliance against applicable local requirements, identify gaps and risks, and drive proportionate mitigation with internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate the preparation, review, legalization and submission of regulatory dossiers, declarations, certificates and supporting product documentation.
• Review product artwork and labelling for applicable legal and safety information before market introduction and manage required local adaptations.
• Act as the primary regulatory contact for assigned markets, partnering with local commercial teams, distributors, consultants, suppliers and relevant authorities or industry bodies.
• Monitor regulatory developments and proactively convert changes into impact assessments, business advice, updated guidance and sustainable processes.
• Lead complex cross-functional projects and market-entry workstreams, maintaining oversight of dependencies, priorities, risks and stakeholder decisions.
• Maintain complete, accurate and audit-ready regulatory records in relevant document and product data systems.
• Create reusable tools, standards and ways of working that improve consistency, speed and scalability across Market Compliance.
• Provide expert advice and act as an escalation point for non-routine questions within the assigned scope.
• Coach colleagues and share market and process knowledge, providing informal leadership without formal people-management responsibility.

Key interfaces

You work closely with Regulatory Affairs colleagues and cross-functional partners in Quality, Safety, Innovation, Product Development, Packaging/Artwork, Sourcing, Legal, Supply Chain and Commercial teams.

Externally, you collaborate with local partners, distributors, consultants, suppliers and competent authorities where relevant.

What success looks like

• Regulatory requirements and launch dependencies are identified early, clearly communicated and translated into executable plans.
• Assigned registrations, notifications and compliance deliverables are accurate, complete and progressed with strong ownership.
• Regulatory risks are made transparent and supported by pragmatic, evidence-based recommendations and escalation where needed.
• New-market approaches are scalable, documented and embedded in the wider Market Compliance way of working.
• Stakeholders experience Regulatory Affairs as a proactive, credible and solution-oriented business partner.

Your profile

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a relevant field such as Regulatory Affairs, Law, Chemistry, Life Sciences or a comparable discipline.
• At least 3-5 years of relevant experience in regulatory affairs, product compliance, quality or a related field, preferably within cosmetics, personal care or FMCG.
• Demonstrable experience with international product compliance and market-entry or product-registration activities. Experience in SEA markets is strongly preferred.
• Able to independently structure ambiguous, non-routine issues and convert them into clear frameworks, options and decisions.
• Strong project-management and planning skills, with the ability to steer multiple workstreams, stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Confident stakeholder manager who can advise, influence and build alignment across functions and seniority levels.
• Analytical, accurate and detail-oriented, while maintaining a practical view of business impact and priorities.
• Proactive, resilient and solution-oriented, with a high degree of ownership and comfort working in a fast-growing international environment.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills. Additional languages relevant to SEA markets are an advantage.

Benefits of working at Rituals

• Unique opportunities for personal and professional growth
• Staff discount on Rituals products
• Attractive bonus
• Flexible working hours tailored to your personal rhythm
• Company & team events