Regulatory Manager

**GENERAL SUMMARY**:

- Provide leadership for the Regulatory team and the organization on regulatory matters.
- Ensure Sun Gro is adhering to all applicable regulations in U.S., Canada, Mexico, current countries we ship to and any potential new markets.
- Oversee the regulatory collaboration with Sun Gro R&D, Marketing, Sales, Technical, Operation/Quality, and Supply Chain teams
- Interface with required parties to drive the company regulatory strategy

**ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS**:

- Provide appropriate leadership for the Regulatory team to ensure effective operation and function of routine tasks and objectives of the team
- Provide regulatory insights for new product development and product improvement projects e.g.
- Evaluate new vendor qualification process with Sun Gro cross-functional teams such as Prop65, OMRI listings, registration status, etc.
- Establish/support product development timelines through Stage & Gate processes
- Label development/updates
- Manage registration/renewals and tonnage reporting via team processes for all product labels. Point person for developing a process for new and discontinued products to ensure registration is current and up to date
- Complete/manage and maintain product registration database
- Lead management of organic program registration and requirements for state and Canada regulatory agencies such as CDFA (OIM), NOP/COR (US/CDN), OMRI, etc.
- Manage/support all required processes/documents by USDA and CFIA Veterinary Certification program
- Coordinate with Stage & Gate Process/Team:

- Regulatory review and approval of all label (package) text for all retail & professional products
- Technical aspects of state and federal registration of all products, retail and professional.
- Manage and maintain Mulch and Soil Council certification program
- Manage required grow tests for regulatory compliance or registration
- Coordinate with Quality/Technical:

- Prop65, CFIA, OMRI, OIM, NOP/COR, USDA
- Project Management
- Coordinate with cross-disciplinary team members to make sure that all parties are on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.
- Meet with project team members to identify and resolve issues.
- Submit project deliverables and ensure that they adhere to regulatory standards.
- Prepare status reports by gathering, analyzing and summarizing relevant information.
- Establish effective project communication plans and ensuring their execution.
- Facilitate change requests to ensure that all parties are aware of the impact on schedules and budget.
- Conduct post project evaluations identifying successful and unsuccessful project elements.

**KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES**:

- Effective team leadership
- Good public speaking skills - effective presentation skills a must.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Strong communication skills to represent Sun Gro and to negotiate with regulators and government sectors.
- Strong, fact based decision making skills
- Excellent mentoring and development skills
- Strong business process orientation
- Understanding of R&D, Marketing, Sales, Operation, Quality, Technical and Supply Chain functions and their interactions
- Flexibility and adaptability.
- Ability to establish and follow plans
- Skilled change champion
- Strong execution skills

**EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE**:

- Minimum BS in related field.
- Strong network with state regulatory agencies including AAPFCO, CFIA, and OMRI knowledge is preferred.

**ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS**:

- Ability to travel domestically and internationally (primarily Canada) (4 - 6 weeks per year or about 10%)
- Ability to work remotely in a home office setting, sitting and using office equipment, primarily telephone and computers (50/50), for extended periods of time each day:

- On calls 30-50% per work day
- On computer tasks 30-50% per work day
- Ability take and maintain notes and information for reference sharing
- Respond to inquiries from internal and external customers in a timely manner (typically with 24 hours of initial inquiry)
- We are an equal opportunity employer.

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Inkerman, NB: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)