Product Compliance Manager - Food, Solutions Group

Company Description

About Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company that provides branding and information labeling solutions, including pressure-sensitive materials, radio-frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, and a variety of converted products and solutions. The company designs and manufactures a wide range of labeling and functional materials that enhance branded packaging, carry or display information that connects the physical and the digital, and improve customers’ product performance. The company serves an array of industries worldwide, including home and personal care, apparel, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals and automotive. The company employs approximately 36,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Reported sales in 2022 were $9.0 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

Built on a legacy of innovation and materials science, Avery Dennison has embarked on a new era of opportunity. This is an opportunity to take the functional and traditional label and enable it with digital technologies that can give every item a unique digital identity and digital life.

This “intelligence applied” technology has the capability to enable a world of connected everything. A world where the 'who, what and where' of every physical, become points of irrefutable fact and absolute visibility. Provenance, authenticity, sourcing, history, real-time location; guaranteed for businesses and consumers throughout the entire supply chain and all the way to the home. At its most simple, a company with a legacy in “making labels” becomes a category-leading technology company making the Internet of Things a positive, transformative, world-wide reality for all of us. The label has always told us something about the product. Now it can tell us everything.

In February 2020, Avery Dennison acquired Smartrac, a leading manufacturer of RFID products. Combined with the Intelligent Labels business, we will leverage our deep industry knowledge and know-how in technology and innovation, R&D, quality and service to drive RFID and technology adoption across multiple industries. And we want you to be part of our journey!

Job Description

Develop, implement, and lead the food compliance program for the Avery Dennison Solutions Group (SG) business, primarily Avery Dennison Smartrac and Identification Solutions, with diverse activities to support the business with customer needs, regulatory requirements, and sustainability objectives. This position will support the food related market by providing guidance to stakeholders and implementing management systems to ensure safety and regulatory compliance. The position will act as a business partner to the R&D, innovation, product, and marketing teams to develop products and solutions that will meet regulatory, safety, and customer requirements and expectations. 

POSITION DUTIES INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: 

• Partner with internal SG stakeholders on strategic initiatives to leverage product compliance to differentiate products and enhance competitive edge.
• Act as the SG expert resource for regulatory requirements related to direct and indirect food contact, labeling, and nutrition in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the European Union, and emerging markets.
• Establish management, governance, and data processes and systems to ensure that products targeted to applications for use in the food supply chain are suitable for use from a compliance and safety perspective.
• Provide guidance on food and supplement labels, ensuring compliance with regulations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the European Union, and emerging markets.
• Track new product compliance, safety, and sustainability developments and lead business processes to identify impacts, mitigate risks, and identify new business opportunities.
• Support customers with various regulatory or customer product safety, environmental, or sustainability requirements.
• Partner with raw material or component suppliers to obtain current compliance and sustainability data related to SG products globally.
• Coordinate product safety testing of products as needed to satisfy regulatory requirements or customer needs.

• Provide compliance guidance in new product development processes and to product development teams. 
• Provide guidance, technical assistance, and training to cross functional groups such as R&D, product development, marketing, customer service, and procurement regarding product stewardship issues and initiatives.

• Implement company product stewardship expectations in SG.
• Exercise the highest degree of discretion when handling all confidential matters.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degre