# Packaging Lead Regulatory Advisor

**Company**: Diageo
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Packaging Lead Regulatory Advisor at Diageo, you will provide hands-on regulatory expertise, guidance, and risk assessments on global packaging legislation. You will act as a subject matter expert for packaging regulatory compliance.

## Key Responsibilities

- Provide regulatory expertise and guidance on global packaging legislation

- Own and deliver day-to-day packaging regulatory activities and lead strategic regulatory programs

- Prepare, review, and maintain Declarations of Conformity (DoCs) and regulatory statements

- Lead the regulatory implementation of key packaging legislation, including the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR)

- Interpret complex regulatory requirements and translate them into practical technical requirements

- Establish and continuously improve global processes for managing packaging compliance

- Work with Packaging Sustainability, Procurement, and other technical teams to ensure regulatory requirements are met

- Provide regulatory input into packaging development, innovation, material changes, and sustainability programs

## Key Accountabilities

- Conduct global regulatory horizon scanning and perform detailed assessments of legislation

- Draft, review, approve, and maintain packaging Declarations of Conformity

- Review supplier regulatory documentation and technical data

- Perform regulatory assessments of packaging materials, components, and material changes

- Lead and complete regulatory activities associated with PPWR

- Provide hands-on regulatory review and approval for packaging projects, changes, and technical queries

- Develop and maintain regulatory standards, procedures, guidance documents, templates, decision trees, and compliance tools

- Partner with Packaging Sustainability and Procurement to ensure regulatory requirements are incorporated into packaging specifications

- Support testing strategies where regulatory evidence is required

- Maintain appropriate regulatory records and evidence to demonstrate compliance

- Provide training and technical coaching to build packaging regulatory capability across relevant teams

## Requirements

- Relevant qualification in Technical/Science or Law

- Significant regulatory experience in packaging legislation, ideally in the food or consumer goods industry

- Knowledge and experience of EU legislative processes is essential, with other jurisdictions desirable

- Ability to work in areas of complexity and ambiguity, detail-oriented, and driven to be the best

- Proven track record of influencing, leading, and delivering cross-functionally

## What We Offer

- Competitive Rewards and Benefits package

- Opportunity to work with a diverse and talented team

- Flexible working arrangements to support wellbeing and work-life balance

- Recognition and value of performance

## Skills

### Required
- packaging legislation
- regulatory compliance
- EU legislative processes
- technical requirements
- supply chain management

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