Director, Sustainable Policy Compliance Implementation

Job Title: Director, Sustainable Policy Compliance Implementation

Division: Corporate

Department: Sustainability & CSR

Supervisor

Title:

VP Circular Economy

Location: The Hub, Clark, NJ

L'Oreal's sustainability commitments approaching 2030 require radical transformation - which include not only embodying our company's vision, purpose and responsibilities, but also to adapt our strategies and products for future compliance with regulations at the state and federal level in the United States.

Over recent years, the role of companies in developing responsible and environmentally beneficial practices around circularity, chemicals, and packaging materials has changed quickly and dramatically. With a rapid evolution in the regulatory landscape, we must mobilize resources to understand what the implementation of these regulations looks like for our business ecosystem - for both internal and external stakeholders.

This is a mission-critical role to ensure compliance in a rapidly changing regulatory environment, especially as it relates to packaging, plastics, ingredients, and chemicals. This role will be based in the Zone sustainability team and partner closely with centers of expertise - namely Public Affairs, Operations (Packaging, Development, Sourcing), R&I (Metier Labs and Regulatory), Legal, and external product and systems design partners.

This role will be responsible for the identification, understanding, and communication of compliance needs and solutions across the product lifecycle, including but not limited to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations, chemical and substance regulations (both in formula and in packaging material, and beyond).

Beauty industry application (e.g. advocating for ambitious sustainability policy practical for the beauty industry, including advocacy on behalf of trusted partners).

• Can read and interpret regs, align with legal on those interpretations, and then translate interpretations for compliance to key stakeholders including brands, strategic committee leaders, finance, and operations.
• Formalize procedures for EPR compliance (SOPs or Standard Operating Procedures).
• State specific technical interpretations.
• Official guidance document for implementation.
• 1:1 verbal upskilling & training; adapting the message to the audience’s expertise.
• Liaise with key internal stakeholders for comments and alignment to ensure we’re influencing evolving standards on the horizon (in close coordination with Public Affairs).
• Ensure compliance, to minimize fees, avoid sales ban.

• Reuse/refill tracking, understanding whether current roadmap leads to reg compliance
• Responsible end market definitions and evaluations.
• Lifecycle analysis requirements.
• Product‑specific exemptions for hazardous products.
• Claims and labeling compliance.
• Tracking compliance of new brand, formula, and product launches, extensions, or renovations.
• Hazardous or restricted chemicals and ingredients, including substances of high concern.

• Oversee IT architecture, and fitness of reports and/or tools to deliver relevant data for regulatory reporting needs.
• Translate state requirements into data terms, and develop product with internal stakeholders to deliver reporting for compliance.
• Translation of source reduction (CA EPR) into data tracking terminology.
• Manage product changes (weight, dimension).
• Co‑developing reporting infrastructure for forecasted future sustainable and environmental regulation reporting (e.g. PFAS) alongside stakeholders including Groupe centers of expertise, Ops SME leads, R&I leadership teams including today's functional Regulatory Compliance teams in Clark, NJ and Paris HQ.

• Oversee enforcement action (Notice of Violation, NOV) and audit responses (if necessary).
• Track annual state regulatory compliance.
• Maintain compliance and reporting documentation (mandated by states).

• Act as a true Sustainability Compliance Liaison,…