Head of Chemical Regulation Consultancy

Overview

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world

At Ricardo, we offer an environment where your expertise will thrive, your creativity will flourish, and your contributions will directly impact industries that drive progress and positive change.

Join our expanding Chemical Risk team as the Head of Chemical Regulation Consultancy. As part of our team, you will be responsible for expanding our consultancy offerings, seizing new market opportunities, and fostering cross-Ricardo collaboration.

If you're seeking a leadership role that promises both personal growth and meaningful rewards, this opportunity is tailor-made for you.

This role is a hybrid position, if successful, you would be expected to commute to one of our UK offices (if based in the UK) or our Madrid office (if based in Madrid).

You’re a great fit for this role if you have:

• Experience in leading the development and implementation of a business strategy regarding chemical regulatory consultancy.
• Technical expertise in specialised areas like supply regulations, REACH, biocides, and Agrochems, this is not essential however, will enhance your capacity to offer customised solutions to our clients.
• Strong commercial awareness.

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

• Extensive knowledge and established relationships in UK, European, or global chemical regulatory landscapes, especially REACH, CLP/GHS, and emerging government policies (e.g., the CSS). Global expertise is a plus.
• Strong technical background in supply and transport regulations, including safety data sheet authoring, REACH expertise, and knowledge of Poison centers (annex VIII requirements is a bonus).
• Adept at influencing and leading teams to successfully complete regulatory consultancy projects and foster team members' personal development.
• Skilled in performing and managing high-quality technical consultancy in chemical regulatory affairs and effective delegation of tasks.
• Excellent communicator experienced in presenting ideas and project outcomes to clients, participating in regulatory conferences, events, webinars, blogs, etc.
• A network of contacts from customer and stakeholder organisations to bring to the table.

In this role, you will:

• Provide clear guidance and strategic leadership to a team of 20, ensuring high-quality, customer-focused delivery aligning with revenue, order, and profit targets.
• Oversee various client projects, leveraging your expertise as necessary.
• Use technical knowledge in areas like REACH, CLP, and related regulations to contribute at the project director level and lead technical sales efforts.
• Identify growth prospects, new consultancy and product offerings, and anticipate industry challenges based on market conditions, legislative changes, and customer needs.
• Collaborate closely with the Ricardo leadership team to achieve growth plans and the Chemical Risk Strategy.
• Lead the Chemical Regulatory Consultancy team and team leaders, emphasising key themes and Ricardo's values.
• Offer leadership to project staff related to customer and consultant technical projects as a Project Director, ensuring the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of deliverables.

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

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.

Ricardo is 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.