As the Global Product Compliance Officer you will design, implement and maintain the strategic framework for product compliance across our global network of engineering, procurement and production. Focusing on passive electrotechnical components and cable systems, your primary mission is to ensure regulatory compliance with a strong emphasis on substance regulation. You will protect the company from regulatory risks, maintain exceptional customer satisfaction and actively represent the company’s interests in relevant industry associations.

Tasks and Responsibilities: 

• Develop, implement and continuously improve a global product compliance framework (policies, processes, Standard Operating Procedures, tools) with special attention to substance regulations.
• Manage the matrix-based global product compliance organization, aligned across EMEA, Americas and APAC.
• Continuously monitor global legislative developments in EU, USA, China and other key markets.
• Assess regulatory changes, derive actionable recommendations and communicate findings to management.
• Actively represent the company’s interests in relevant industry associations like ZVEI and standardization committees like DKE with focus on EU related matter.
• Establish standardized, SLA-driven workflows to guarantee effective and efficient response to global customers regarding regulatory requests including entries to external material compliance databases like BOMcheck.
• Act as the global escalation point for complex customer inquiries regarding product compliance or material declarations.
• Push improvement of processes at procurement, R&D and production to embed compliance requirements and to proactively provide data, information and documents prior to mass production and market launch.
• Advising and training the respective internal teams on product- and substance-related legislation and regulations
• Identify, propose and enforce IT system enhancements for product compliance, driving technical solutions and system optimizations in close collaboration with global IT.
• Define strict compliance requirements for raw materials, compounds, metals and components sourced from suppliers world-wide.
• Propose and push supplier qualification and auditing workflows to continuously evaluate and monitor vendor compliance capabilities.
• Drive data collection campaigns through the supply chain to secure full material disclosures (FMD) and conflict mineral reporting.

Qualifications: 

• University degree in chemistry, materials science, engineering, business engineering or similar.
• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience in management within the electrotechnical, component manufacturing or cable industry (B2B) in the field of regulated substances.
• Deep knowledge of key global substance-related regulations, e.g. REACh/RoHS, US TSCA, CalProp 65.
• Knowledge of the most important data exchange platforms, including BomCheck and IMDS.
• Experience with at least one IT system for generating product-specific ingredient information based on bill of materials data, e.g., SAP EHSM.
• Experience in association work, ideally at German ZVEI.
• Good knowledge of the European Legislation and Its Current Initiatives.
• Languages: Fluency in both English and German is mandatory to successfully lead internal alignment and influence technical positioning within German and European-led organizations.