Senior Manager, Regulatory Commercialization

Your Opportunity as the Senior Manager, Regulatory Commercialization

Lead the enterprise Regulatory Commercialization function responsible for enabling compliant innovation and commercialization across all company products, categories, and strategic business areas. Establish the function’s strategy, governance, standards, decision frameworks, and operating practices for ingredient reviews, claims substantiation, product changes, and commercialization decisions.

Lead a team of regulatory professionals and apply risk-based judgment to complex, novel, and high-impact regulatory matters. As a strategic business partner, you will work across Research and Development, Marketing, Legal, Quality Assurance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Commercial Operations, and business leadership to identify regulatory requirements and risks early, develop practical solutions, and support compliant innovation, speed to market, and sustainable business growth.

Location: Orrville, Ohio

Work Arrangements: Hybrid, 35% in office expectation

In this role you will:

Lead Regulatory Commercialization Strategy and Governance

• Lead the Regulatory Commercialization team responsible for providing strategic regulatory leadership throughout the commercialization process across all company products and categories.
• Establish and maintain enterprise standards and governance for innovation, reformulations, line extensions, productivity initiatives, supplier changes, business-continuity projects, and packaging changes.
• Develop effective business processes, decision rights, escalation protocols, risk-tiering criteria, and service expectations that accelerate commercialization while supporting consistent, timely, and defensible regulatory decisions.
• Partner with Marketing, Research and Development, Commercial Operations, Legal, Creative and Design, Quality Assurance, and business leaders to remove barriers and advance company priorities.
• Influence enterprise-level decisions through expert regulatory guidance and balanced, pragmatic, risk-based recommendations.
• Deliver executive-ready recommendations that clearly communicate facts, uncertainties, options, business implications, and recommended actions.

Lead Ingredient Approval Strategy and Technical Programs

• Own enterprise governance, review processes, and decision standards for ingredient authorizations, Generally Recognized as Safe determinations, novel-food processes, food-contact notifications, expanded-use approvals, and other applicable pathways.
• Determine appropriate regulatory pathways and establish scientific, documentation, and decision criteria for complex or business-critical ingredient initiatives.
• Oversee cross-functional project plans, data-gap re...

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