Sr. Regulatory Affairs Associate

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The Own Brands Technical Services department has an opening for a Senior Regulatory Affairs Associate. This position is located in Pleasanton, California. As part of the Regulatory Affairs (RA) team, the Senior RA Associate will be responsible for ensuring faultless compliance of product labeling for several brands within Albertsons Own Brands. Interact regularly with many other functions including but not limited to Product Development, Food Safety and Quality, Product Management, Sourcing, and Legal.

Conduct daily regulatory activities related to product development such as identification, interpretation, and implementation of all applicable federal, state and local regulations. These include but are not limited to standards of identity, package label requirements, claims identification and validation, preparation and submission of USDA label approval requests and records preparation and retention to comply with regulatory requirements. These activities include oversight and review of regulatory activities for in house developed and manufactured products and regulatory activities conducted by contract manufacturers of consumer brands products.

This position is critical to ensuring regulatory compliance and avoidance of the product retrievals and recalls that can result from noncompliance to product and package regulations.

• Provide regulatory expertise on cross functional project teams for the Own Brands categories assigned to them and ensure all consumer brands packaging is in compliance with federal, state and local regulations. This involves daily interactions with marketing, graphic design, sourcing and outside design agencies to ensure that all existing, new and revised packaging graphics and placements are in compliance with labeling regulations.
• Create Label copy with ingredient statements, nutrition facts, substantiating complex claims and approving graphics and ensuring the accuracy of the regulatory information in Albertsons databases, on final artwork and in specifications. This interaction is required from the beginning of the design process to review of final artwork prior to package production.
• Lead RA taskforce for various state regulation impacting the products in Own Brands portfolio
• Support commercialization process and ensure timely execution of regulatory related tasks– including co-packer and self-manufactured product label copy review, claims substantiation, maintenance of Checklists, Consumer Brands Style Guide and SOPs. Provide input on nutrition labeling, defining new claim territories and managing packaging timelines.
• Lead compliance systems requirements and testing, RA Manual updates and continuous improvement initiatives for the RA team as part of the RA core team
• Partner with cross functional team members including PD, SI and Legal in partnership with the RA manager to develop guardrails for competitive claims as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support food and non-food products in new and competitive claims space
• Require an excellent understanding and application of US labeling regulations (USDA, FDA, EPA) to assure the accuracy of ingredient statements, nutrition facts, allergen declarations and claims.
• Ability to think strategically as well as independently monitor, interpret and ensure compliance with US regulations today and into the future.
• Prepare regulatory training…