Advisor, Regulatory Affairs

**Your Job**:
You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In your role as **Advisor, Regulatory Affairs - APAC **you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. A key objective is to elevate the APAC regulatory compliance position by building a model for regulatory execution, support global regulatory intelligence, and proactively advising on the path to compliance to meet or exceed the expectations of regulatory bodies.

This role supports the GBS APAC to effectively deliver business strategy, identify and drive value creation initiatives, support employee engagement initiatives, identify control and compliance gaps and lead disruptive ideas in the journey to Intelligent Business Services.

**About Us**:
People have looked to **Kimberly-Clark** brands for more than 150 years and today we're proud to help over a billion people around the world cope, laugh, love and live every day. From the best nappies and baby wipes to the softest tissues, to the best supplies for business, we are constantly searching for new ways to make life better for our consumers, our customers and our planet.

Our leading consumer brands like the Kleenex, Huggies, VIVA, U by Kotex, Poise, Depend brands improve the lives of people around the world.
- Kimberly-Clark proudly leads the way in providing better care for a better world. _

**Led by Purpose. Driven by You.**

**Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities**:

- Provides vision, direction, and advice in the implementation of APAC regulatory strategies to ensure regional management of Consumer, Professional or enterprise innovation level regulatory compliance.
- The incumbent will strategize with, communicate, and advise business on anticipated and existing regulation and legislation in support of product development and regulatory compliance during life cycle management of the K-C product portfolio.
- The incumbent will be primarily responsible for providing innovative, regional regulatory strategies to manage innovation and preparation of regulatory clearances to enable the business to achieve objectives while ensuring that K-C complies with applicable regulatory requirements governing our products.
- The incumbent provides leadership, coordination, and development of regulatory affairs strategies for the APAC region and its innovation teams.
- This position will assess the regulatory impact and risk associated with changing legislation across the region, and subsequently provide the vision to ensure platforms, programs and innovation activities incorporate these compliance requirements into innovation, product development and life cycle management to ensure regulatory compliance.
- This individual must proactively address complex regulatory issues and stay ahead in the regulatory environment by anticipating changes.
- In addition, the role must engage with and influence K-C leaders at all levels across all functions, helping the teams achieve key business goals and expectations. Business awareness and acumen are critical to success.
- Execute all regulatory activities in accordance with corporate policies and practices, protection of proprietary information, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Act as primary interface for APAC regulatory affairs with the Innovation Teams & as liaison with global innovation team and regulatory technical leaders.
- Develop and maintain an appropriate regional regulatory governance process to execute regional and global projects.
- Support product development activities and in accordance with enterprise or business launch plans.
- Develop and execute regional or global, innovative regulatory strategies that will ensure compliance with regulations.
- Ensure coordination and interaction with regional and/or global teams to enable compliance to applicable regulations and support through product approvals.
- Prepare and/or advise others on preparation of regulatory submissions for introduction of novel products in accordance with regulatory requirements.
- Establishes and maintains positive customer rapport, while driving solutions to meet business needs. Develops and maintains a strong spirit of partnership.
- Advise business and functional leaders on leaders strategic planning and ensure alignment to business needs.
- Advise on best practices and process improvements for regional or global regulatory affairs and regulatory intelligence.
- Advise on how to influence changing regional or global regulations relevant to all products marketed by K-C.
- Influence the development of new legislation in a manner favorable to K-C through active participation in trade associations and industry co