Compliance and Sustainability Manager

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Compliance and Sustainability Manager

Aylesford, Kent

8am - 4.30pm

You will be a self-motivated and experienced Compliance and Sustainability Manager who can work effectively within the Research and Development team. In this role, you will work closely with the Heads of department to address technical product compliance and certification across a range of product categories such as Furniture, Electrical, Medical Devices, and Bathroom. For all existing and new products brought to market, you will ensure full compliance with current standards while supporting certification requirements for a global market.

You will provide proactive support across the design teams to ensure that compliant products are designed, manufactured, and thoroughly tested to the relevant global ISOs and market-specific standards. In addition, you will drive compliance process development, documentation, implementation, and execution, ensuring best practice is embedded throughout the product lifecycle.

As a leader, you will be expected to demonstrate strong decision-making skills and the confidence to guide cross-functional teams through complex compliance challenges. You will combine technical expertise with sound judgement, balancing regulatory, commercial, and operational considerations to provide clear direction. With a proven ability to influence and inspire, you will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders while fostering collaboration across teams.

You will demonstrate a high level of ownership of assigned matters, intellectual curiosity to solve problems, and the ability to make well-founded recommendations based on self-directed research. A commitment to accuracy, resilience under pressure, and a natural ability to mentor and support colleagues will be essential to your success in this role.

• Develop and drive a robust process for the management of product compliance.
• Develop and maintain a system and structure for the maintenance of all certification documentation and technical files.
• Develop strong relationships and coordinate with test and certification partners for the successful execution of compliance test programs.
• Lead and manage a small team.
• Develop and maintain appropriate systems to manage product marking, registers and declarations of conformity.
• Organise and facilitate certification related internal and external audits, working with all business functions to ensure successful outcomes and ongoing compliance with requirements.
• Identifying upcoming global product and packaging regulatory changes and prepare the business for compliances.
• To be able to lead new EU, UK, and USA product and packaging compliance issues and changes.
• Conducting tests and studies into the company’s product compliance.
• Review manuals, data/safety labelling for products to sign off that they apply to the applicable certification.
• Work with the supply chain to collect crucial data for suppliers.
• Manage Chemical compliance.
• Improve Logistics and Risk Management of the department.
• To organise CE, CA and FDA marks and testing.
• To lead and manage retesting strategy
• To create testing budgets and cost saving strategies
• To assess compliance based risks and make critical business decisions
• To support on Packaging, Timber compliance and regulations.

• Develop and implement a sustainability strategy aligned with business objectives, covering products, processes, and supply chain practices.
• Establish and maintain systems to monitor and report on sustainability metrics, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and alignment with global standards and frameworks.
• Lead sustainability, working with internal teams and external partners to ensure ongoing compliance with environmental regulations.
• Drive initiatives to reduce environmental impact across materials, packaging, and product life cycles, including resource efficiency and waste‑reduction efforts.
• Collaborate with design, NPD, and materials teams to integrate sustainability principles into product development, including material selection and responsible sourcing.
• Evaluate and manage environmental risks within the…