Regulatory Specialist

Title: Regulatory Specialist
Location: Hershey, PA (Hybrid) - 08:00 am to 04:30 pm
Duration: 12 months.

Job Description: This role supports Regulatory Affairs activities for Snack brands, ensuring compliance with U.S. food regulations across the product lifecycle from ideation through commercialisation and post-launch. The position partners cross-functionally with R&D, Marketing, Legal, Quality, and Supply Chain to deliver compliant ingredients, formulas, labels, claims, and certifications for Salty products.

Main Duties:

• Provide regulatory compliance support for Snacks brands, including ingredient, recipe, labelling, and claims reviews.
• Execute finished product labelling activities from creation through final packaging approval.
• Review and assess ingredients, additives, flavours, colours, allergens, and processing aids for U.S. regulatory compliance.
• Support claims substantiation (e.g., nutrition, organic, non-GMO, vegan, kosher, gluten-free, whole grain as applicable).
• Partner with cross-functional teams to support innovation, renovation, and continuous improvement projects.
• Utilise internal systems (SAP-PLM/PDM, labelling and compliance tools, Webcenter/ESKO) to document regulatory decisions and approvals.
• Support responses to internal and external regulatory questions, including consumer and customer inquiries.

Typical Day:

• Support label development, artwork reviews and approvals
• Review recipe submissions for regulatory compliance, work on claims substantiations
• Participate in cross-functional project meetings for Salty innovation and renovations
• Provide regulatory guidance to R&D, Marketing, and Commercial teams
• Update regulatory systems and trackers (labels, certifications, compliance reviews)

Top Three Technical Skills:
1. U.S. Food Regulatory Knowledge (labelling, allergens, claims, ingredients, additives)
2. Finished Product Labelling, artwork reviews and approvals & Claims Review (end-to-end execution)
3. Cross-functional Regulatory Support in a fast-paced consumer packaged goods environment

Soft skills:

• Attention to detail
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking.
• Comfortable with ambiguity.
• Excellent analytical and research skills
• Excellent communication skills (i.e. verbal, written)
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to self-manage for managing numerous priorities
• Strong initiative, and the ability to change in a fast-changing environment.
• Impressive ethics and must maintain a high level of confidentiality

Must Haves (i.e., years of experience?)

• 2-5+ years Regulatory Affairs experience in food companies
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. food labelling and ingredient regulations
• Bachelors degree in Food Science, Nutrition, Food Regulatory, Biology, Chemistry, or related field
• Experience supporting cross functional product development teams

Software Skills and Purpose (if applicable):

• PLM / PDM- SAP systems ingredient, recipe, and label compliance
• Labeling and artwork systems (e.g., WebCenter or equivalent) label development and approvals
• Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint) documentation, summaries, and stakeholder communication Industry
• Experience: Food, consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry
• Experience with Salty Snacks or baked snack categories strongly preferred