Manager Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs (South Asia)

Ashland India Private Ltd

Position: Manager Product Safety and Regulatory Affairs (South Asia)

Are you the kind of person who is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

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Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for an Manager Product Safety & Regulatory to join our Regulatory team in Mumbai. The position will report to the Manager Regulatory Affairs APAC.

This is an Onsite full-time position.

Position Purpose

This position is business-critical within APAC Product Regulatory Affairs and Product Stewardship, designed to sustain regulatory continuity, protect market access, strengthen customer-facing regulatory support, and ensure reliable product safety and hazard communication governance across India, South Asia and assigned Rest of Asia markets.

The role will provide regional leadership for Ashland’s Life Sciences portfolio, with practical support for adjacent Personal Care and Specialty Additives activities where business needs require, ensuring that product compliance, customer commitments, chemical hazard communication, SDS/label requirements, and regulatory risk management are executed with discipline and consistency.

Strategic Business Outcomes

• •Maintain continuity of critical regulatory support for India, South Asia and assigned Rest of Asia markets following transition from the current role holder.
• •Enable business growth and revenue protection by supporting market access, product qualification, customer regulatory documentation, registrations and regulatory issue resolution.
• •Strengthen regional risk management by proactively identifying regulatory changes, compliance exposures, customer-sensitive topics and implementation actions.
• •Improve consistency, traceability and governance of customer-facing regulatory information through controlled documentation, clear approval pathways and evidence-based decision-making.
• •Provide reliable regional execution in a matrix organization, with measurable improvement in response quality, stakeholder alignment and project delivery discipline.
• •Scope of Accountability
• •Customer Regulatory Support and Business Enablement
• •Own and coordinate regulatory and quality inquiries from customers across Rest of Asia, including standard and non-standard requests, questionnaires, declarations, quality agreements, product compliance statements and supporting technical documentation.
• •Collect, evaluate and reconcile information from customers and internal subject-matter experts; identify information gaps; document the regulatory rationale; and deliver approved responses within agreed timelines.
• •Prepare, review and maintain standard regulatory documents and market-specific statements based on current requirements and business needs, including topics such as nitrosamines, elemental impurities, residual solvents, TSE/BSE, allergens, GMO status, irradiation, animal origin, pharmacopeial compliance and country-specific expectations, as applicable.
• •Apply appropriate document controls, approval pathways, confidentiality safeguards and version management to customer-facing regulatory information.
• •Escalate technically complex, high-risk, novel or potentially precedent-setting requests to the appropriate regional or global regulatory, quality, toxicology, legal or business owner.
• •Partner with Sales and Business Development to clarify customer requirements, set realistic delivery expectations and support strategic opportunities without overcommitting the organization.
• •Monitor request volumes, turnaround, recurring topics and service gaps; prepare periodic regional reports and recommend improvements to content, tools, processes and stakeholder education.
• •Support initiatives intended to strengthen customer experience, responsiveness and consistency across Rest of Asia.

2. Market Access, Registration and Product Compliance

• •Provide practical interpretation of pharmaceutical, food/nutrition and related product regulatory requirements and explain their potential impact on products, claims, customers, supply continuity and business plans.
• •Support product registration, notification, listing, renewal, variation and maintenance activities, as assigned, by assembling technical and administrative information and coordinating responses to questions from authorities, customers or localrepresentatives.
• •Perform or coordinate market-entry and product compliance assessments for assigned countries and product portfolios; clearly document assumptions, evidence, gaps, risks, decisions and follow-up actions.
• Develop and optimize regulatory technical packages, country dossiers, product compliance summaries and customer support materials that enable commercial execution.
• •Review product literature, sales presentations, technical claims, labels or other applicable commercial materials for alignment with approved regulatory information and applicable requirements.
• Support new product introduction, product change, sourcing change, manufacturing transfer, formulation or specification change, and discontinuation activities by providing timely regulatory impact assessments.
• •Participate in cross-functional projects and governance forums, representing Rest of Asia regulatory requirements and ensuring regulatory actions, owners and deadlines are documented and tracked.

3. Product Stewardship and Hazard Communication /

• •Lead and coordinate regional product stewardship activities for assigned products and markets, ensuring product safety, hazard communication and regulatory compliance considerations are integrated into business decisions.
• •Support hazard classification, SDS and label governance in alignment with applicable GHS-based requirements, local chemical control rules, transport classification inputs and Ashland internal standards.
• •Coordinate with global Product Stewardship, Toxicology, EHS, Quality, Manufacturing and Supply Chain to maintain accurate product composition, hazard, exposure, use, restriction and regulatory status information.
• •Review, maintain and improve customer-facing hazard communication materials, including SDS, product safety statements, chemical inventory status, restricted substance declarations, dangerous goods information and stewardship-related responses.
• •Assess the product safety and regulatory impact of raw material changes, supplier changes, manufacturing changes, new product introductions, formulation updates, specification changes and market expansion requests.
• •Identify and escalate potential hazard communication gaps, classification inconsistencies, missing source data, unsupported customer claims, restricted material concerns or issues that may affect safe use, transport, market access or customer commitments.
• •Promote consistent implementation of product stewardship principles across the region through guidance, training, work instructions, decision trees, process improvements and cross-functional alignment.

4. Regulatory Intelligence, Risk Management and Leadership Communication Monitor relevant laws, regulations, guidance, pharmacopeial developments, standards and enforcement trends across assigned Rest of Asia markets.

• •Assess the applicability, effective dates, business impact and implementation needs of regulatory developments; distinguish confirmed requirements from proposals or emerging expectations.
• •Prepare concise regulatory alerts, impact assessments, leadership summaries and recommended action plans for regional and global stakeholders.
• •Maintain an auditable regulatory intelligence tracker, including source, jurisdiction, topic, status, impact, owner, due date and closure evidence.
• •Use risk-based prioritization to identify potentially significan