Global QA Legal & Regulatory Affairs Lead

THE OATLY WAY

Oatly is a sustainability company built on the idea of change. Bottom line, we want to make it easy for people to eat and drink what’s good for them without recklessly taxing the planet’s resources. It's why we come to work every day. With our head office in Malmö and production sites in Sweden, the Netherlands and the US, our products are available in almost 30 countries across Europe, North America and Asia.

We welcome people from all backgrounds who see sustainability, health and transparency as important values. If you have the curiosity, passion and collaborative spirit, work with us, and let’s do this together! It will be fun! Promise!



Here’s what it’s all about

Oatly is growing and we are looking for a Global QA Legal & Regulatory Affairs Lead to join our global organisation. Together you will lead the work in setting global processes, guidelines, templates and build systems within your area of expertise. Another important mission is to make sure that Oatly has a surveillance organisation in place to keep the organisation up to date with current and new applicable legislation, standards and technological development. In this role you will work a lot together with other departments, Supply chain operations, Innovation and the Commercial organisation. You will also work in tight collaboration with the Regional QA Market & Regulatory organisations to globally secure legal & regulatory compliance.

Here´s what you will do

- Be part of developing & lead forums and processes to be on top of all latest updates affecting QA legal & regulatory areas.
- Be part of developing & lead implementation of supporting tools / systems.
- Be part of developing and lead the work with QA legally & regulatory requirement.
- Best practice sharing between regional QA Regulatory organisations.
- Secure rigid policies and processes to handle quality claims, on our products, allergen management as well as product incident management.


In this role you will report to the QA Global Legal & Regulatory Affairs Manager, the position is placed in Malmö with the possibility to work partly remote. Some travel may be required.



Are you the Oat we’re looking for? Here are the things we think you need:

Besides having an analytic mindset and a keen eye for detail we also believe that you are a genuine team-player that welcomes ambiguity as an opportunity to move forward and is comfortable with change. Collaboration is in your nature; you dare to try different things but are also happy to admit failure and learn more. You have great communication skills and easily establish relations with colleagues and stakeholders at any level.

Other key competencies & experiences:

- Bachelor's or master’s within food quality/food safety or law school with food as master.
- Relevant experience of working with legal & regulatory requirements in a global setting.
- Production quality management.
- Knowledge of GSFI standards.
- Experience working with product management, artwork and labelling.
- Experience of working with horizon scanning.


As we act in a truly global setting, your communication skills in English must be excellent, both verbally and in writing.

YOUR APPLICATION

As you can probably tell, we are a norm-breaking company. For us, diversity and differences are an obvious asset. We know that amazing candidates are sometimes put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box, and that makes us sad. So, if you tick most of those boxes, but not all, please pop in an application anyway. And good luck!





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