Ethos BeathChapman
Website:
ethosbc.com
Job details:
Our client is a leading global consumer health and personal care organisation, operating a distributor-led go-to-market model across India and the Middle East. As part of the growth strategy, the client is seeking the first dedicated Regulatory Manager to be based in India for this region — a newly created role, moving regulatory support in-country after several years of remote coverage.
This is a high-visibility, strategic role reporting into the region's Regulatory Head (a corporate function, independent of the local commercial team), with real influence over portfolio, market-entry and launch decisions as the business scales through acquisition-led growth.
What you'll be doing
- Own regulatory strategy in-market for India and the Middle East, moving the function from transactional/administrative support to a strategic, risk-led partner to the business.
- Act as the regulatory decision-maker in a distributor go-to-market model — setting strategy and direction rather than simply relaying distributor guidance.
- Navigate genuinely ambiguous regulatory environments, particularly for cosmetics and medical devices, where classification and requirements vary by market and authority.
- Build the processes, networks and ways of working that don't yet exist in a lean, fast-growing regional structure.
- Partner closely with distributor-side regulatory counterparts and, over time, help shape the case for additional regional regulatory headcount.
- Monitor the regulatory landscape and advise the business on emerging risk and opportunity across cosmetics, medical devices, household and health/OTC-classified products.
What you'll bring
- A degree in pharmacy, chemistry, life sciences, engineering or a related technical field.
- Solid regulatory affairs experience within consumer health, personal care or another multicategory regulated environment, with cosmetics experience essential.
- Experience in at least one other complex, highly regulated category (e.g. medical devices, chemicals, OTC/health products) is highly valued; direct Middle East/GCC exposure is a plus but not essential for the right, adaptable profile.
- Genuine comfort operating as an individual contributor in a lean, ambiguous, fast-changing environment — this is not (initially) a people-management role.
- Strong stakeholder influence without formal authority, sound judgement in grey areas, and the confidence to challenge distributor input where needed.
- Professional working proficiency in English, as the role requires regular communication, reporting and stakeholder engagement with regional and global teams in English.
Why apply
- A rare opportunity to build a regional regulatory function from the ground up, for a growing, acquisitive global consumer health business.
- A genuine seat at the table shaping market entry, classification and launch decisions — not a back-office compliance function.
- Hybrid working (3 days office / 2 days home), based in Mumbai, with a clear path to a broader remit as the India & Middle East organisation matures.
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Reg. No. R1110770
BeathChapman Pte Ltd
Licence no. 16S8112
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