Manager Product Compliance

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Location:

Mettawa, IL Workplace Category:
Hybrid

Travel Required:

10-20% Direct Reports: 4-5 Pay Range: $103,200 - $144,000 annual Visa Sponsorship:
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship now or in the future. Relocation:
Not offered

Innovation is the heart of Brunswick. See how your contributions will help transform vision into reality.

Navico Group is seeking an experienced and highly effective leader to head our global Product and Material Compliance function. Leading a globally distributed team of compliance engineers, you will own the regulatory compliance lifecycle for the Navico Group product portfolio from regulatory intelligence and requirements definition through execution oversight, culminating in certifications and Declarations of Conformity that secure market access worldwide.

The role defines what compliance means for each product and market; your team then partners with engineering, sourcing, operations, and commercial functions to ensure every compliance activity is planned, executed, and evidenced including regulatory certifications and ensuring compliance requirements are effectively integrated into supplier selection, qualification, sourcing, and ongoing supplier management processes. You will act as Navico Group's primary interface to Brunswick's corporate compliance functions, representing the division in the enterprise Compliance Office and leveraging shared tools and expertise across divisions.

At Brunswick, we have passion for our work and a distinct ability to deliver.

• Lead, develop, and scale a global team of product compliance engineers and specialists across AMER and EMEA; set priorities, standards of work, and development plans.
• Define and continuously improve the compliance operating model: processes, tools, documentation standards, and stage-gate integration with product development.
• Communicate compliance status, risks, and non-conformities to executives, program managers, and engineering leadership with clear, practical, decision-ready recommendations.
• Define and maintain the regulatory data architecture supporting requirements governance, PLM, certification repositories, supplier disclosures, and compliance evidence.
• Ensure compliance requirements, certifications, declarations, test evidence, supplier disclosures, and regulatory obligations are digitally linked and traceable through the product lifecycle.
• Partner with Systems Engineering and enterprise digital engineering teams to establish reusable compliance requirement libraries and verification frameworks
• Monitor, interpret, and anticipate evolving regulations across target markets (AMER, EMEA, and rest-of-world), evaluating impact on current and future products.
• Translate regulation into actionable, product- and market-specific compliance requirements, integrated into roadmaps and design requirements from concept onward and architected for re-use across various product platforms.
• Identify top regulatory compliance risks for the division and drive mitigation plans in conjunction with the enterprise compliance team.
• Support implementation of EU Battery Regulation obligations, including digital product passport / battery passport readiness in partnership with Systems Engineering, PLM, and Enterprise Compliance teams.
• Own the end-to-end certification pipeline: planning, third-party lab and notified-body coordination, test witnessing, and issue resolution through to certificates and Declarations of Conformity (CE, UKCA, FCC/ISED, UL/CSA, DNV, MED, and market-specific approvals).
• Ensure preparation and maintenance of complete technical documentation:
  Technical Construction Files, declarations, labeling specifications, and certification dossiers.
• Govern substance/material compliance data collection through the supply chain and manage responses to compliance requests as the single point of contact.
• Represent Navico Group in Brunswick's enterprise-wide Compliance Office; align divisional practices with corporate policy and leverage shared tooling, expertise, and approaches across divisions.
• Build relationships with certification bodies, test labs, industry associations (AB