Compliance Manager

My Client in lancashire is looking for a Complaice Manager to join their team.

They are seeking a product and service Compliance Manager to oversee and streamline the process of achieving and maintaining product compliance and certifications across a range of geographies, industries, and product types (covering both physical product and software/cloud services).

As the Compliance Manager your role will encompass:

* Maintain: Facilitate ongoing audits, as well as routine product inspections, from various approvals bodies. Ensure expiring certificates are renewed ahead of time to avoid compliance gaps. Stay involved in industry groups and standards committees relevant to my client, in order to give advance notice of any changes to compliance requirements, and to represent our interests in those groups.

* Expand: Create project plans for obtaining certifications on new products and services, ensuring the test, audit, and certification requirements are communicated to all stakeholders, along with expected timelines and costs, and any prerequisites for compliance.

* Collaborate: Work with the wider R&D/Engineering team to create test samples suitable for testing by approvals bodies. Educate the R&D/Engineering team on updates to standards and new test requirements. Support the Quality and H&S teams with their ongoing efforts to improve quality and safety within the business. Work with the Quality/Test teams to ensure the right products are tested in the right way during internal product auditing.

* Innovate: Continuously strive for ways to improve the operation of the Compliance department, be that through increased use of technology (where appropriate), better ways to communicate, alternative suppliers or approvals bodies, or any other areas that can be improved, and work with the Quality and Production teams to improve operational processes such as labelling etc.

* Technical Expertise: A degree or equivalent in a relevant engineering field, as well as detailed knowledge of relevant regulations (eg CE and UKCA marking, etc.) and testing (eg EMC and RF testing, environmental testing, safety testing, etc.), an understanding of the process of certification (eg test, paperwork, audits, etc.), and a thorough understanding of the obligations of the manufacturer (and other economic operators in the supply chain) in all scenarios.

* Communication: The ability to translate very technical regulations and standards into concise and pertinent points that can be disseminated to a wide team, as well as being able to professionally communicate with external stakeholders (both suppliers and customers).

* Leadership: The capability to lead teams of people and to delegate responsibilities in a reasoned manner to ensure projects are completed efficiently and promptly, while balancing workloads and matching tasks to skills.

* Resilience and Decisiveness: As an important gatekeeper in new product introductions or product change processes, the ability to work well under pressure and to make challenging business decisions based on robust evidence is essential.

The role is hybrid working and will require you onsite 1-2 x a week.

Salary GBP50,000-60,000 depeding on experience

If interested please Apply