Regulatory Affairs Representative I - HAZCOM

Role Description

An Information Technology & Business Shared Services Center has been established in Hyderabad, India, with the objective of providing information technology application development and support services.

This position for the support of the Product Stewardship group and is externally focused on product regulatory compliance of Eastman’s products on a global basis. This position is responsible for administering the internal process for Safety Data Sheet (SDS) development and product data management in SAP. Works internally with a cross-functional team to ensure SDSs are accurate and authored in a timely manner.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assists in the planning, development, maintenance, and implementation of the SDS authoring process.
• Partners across all areas of expertise within the PSRA organization to monitor, promote, and deliver high quality, and fully compliant SDSs.
• Identifies key measures to assist in driving continuous improvements and adherence to applicable regulatory requirements.
• Actively fosters an organizational culture that is based on collaboration, partnership, innovation, customer service, driving change, and teamwork.
• SDS and label data maintenance for new and existing products, intermediates and experimental products. Position works under direct supervision as needed.
• Maintain regulatory and compositional information from raw materials suppliers and our businesses.
• Manage our translation process with a 3rd party vendor.
• Enter and maintain hazard assessment and regulatory data into product compliance support and MSDS authoring systems.
• Provide internal and external customer support related to hazard communication including SDS distribution.
• Actively participate in projects to continue to maintain compliance with global hazard communication regulations and related regulatory requirements.
• Use product compliance tools to retrieve/query production models, specifications, recipes, labeling information, global database searches.
• Support Eastman’s Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs activities.
• Assist in special assignments and accepting new responsibilities as needed.
• Contribute to group projects by offering proposed solutions to problems and methods to accomplish the goals of the Product Stewardship and Regulatory Affairs Group.

Basic Qualifications:

• Associate degree in chemistry, Biological Sciences, Toxicology or HSE related field or equivalent experience in these fields.
• Zero to two years of relevant experience.
• Knowledge of MS excel, spreadsheet software, SAP like tools or similar Applications.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to multi-task and adapt to changing work priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills required to facilitate team building and partnering with colleagues and peers.
• Ability to focus on details, work autonomously and lead projects.
• SAP EHS module experience a plus.
• Results driven with excellent communication skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks/priorities and deal with ambiguity to meet specified deadlines.
• Good analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented and comfortable working in a team environment.
• Experience with innovative methodology for capturing and identifying metrics of key performance indicators.