Consultant

Overview

Role: Consultant (REACH / CLP)

Location: UK Flexible

Role ID: 2023-1890

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

We are looking for professional consultants who are technically competent and commercially aware to support our REACH and CLP consultancy business in the European Union and UK.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing organisations and make a significant different to our customers. You will work with a successful team and continue the strong growth trajectory as the world implements more regulations to safely manage chemicals. This is an ideal role for someone who wants to both deliver technical excellence, but also who is focused on developing their own career and experience.

To succeed in this role, you need to demonstrate knowledge and experience across both REACH and CLP, including the ability to author SDS to a high standard, with broader chemical regulatory compliance knowledge a secondary consideration. Strong customer service ethos and commercial acumen is a strong preference.

We encourage you to apply for this role if you have the following competencies and experience:

• Have an extensive background in supply regulations (and potentially transport regs as well); expert knowledge of REACH; safety data sheet authoring, understanding how to classify both substances and mixtures and author a fully compliant safety data sheet desirable but not a necessity.
• Performing and managing high quality technical consultancy in the field of chemical regulatory affairs.
• Have and maintain expert knowledge of the regulations affecting the worldwide chemical industry, in particular REACH, GHS and CLP.
• Keep up to date with market trends and developments.
• Contribute ideas to the development of business strategy with respect to regulatory.
• Ability to communicate clearly to a range of people.

As a REACH Consultant your main responsibilities will be:

• Undertaking a range of client work related to REACH.
• Coaching and knowledge sharing with team members, helping others to grow their knowledge of the REACH regulation and how it applies to clients.
• Supporting other technical areas including Safety Data Sheet authoring, Poison Centre notifications etc.
• Understand the regulatory landscape and being an expert in this field.
• Excellent project management and customer management skills, allowing you to manage our clients proactively, delivering excellence and winning repeat business
• Providing extensive technical knowledge especially in the area of REACH and/or SDS Authoring.
• Providing expert technical consultancy input to support the growth and development of technical regulatory consultancy products and services.
• Identifying and helping to take forward opportunities that are uncovered through the technical work e.g., through technical conversations around REACH uncovering where the customer may require additional support in Safety Data Sheets, Poison Centres and Emergency Response or training opportunities.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Next steps

We are a disability confident employer, please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.