Director, Product Compliance and Regulatory Affairs

Purpose:

Are you a collaborative expert in product certification and regulatory governance who can balance consumer protection, product performance, business needs, and evolving regulatory expectations? Delta Faucet Company has an excellent opportunity for someone to coordinate product safety and regulatory matters. This role owns the strategy, governance, and execution of product compliance programs while serving as a trusted business partner to cross-functional teams that ensure products meet compliance standards, business growth, innovation, and speed to market.

Responsibilities:

· Lead, mentor, and develop the Product Compliance and Regulatory Affairs team to ensure the appropriate capability, performance, and capacity to meet business objectives.

· Establish and maintain product compliance strategies, policies, processes, governance practices, and management-system documentation that support compliant products and effective business execution.

· Monitor, interpret, and communicate applicable laws, codes, standards, certification requirements, and regulatory trends; assess business impact and guide practical implementation plans.

· Oversee processes and team performance to ensure third-party certifications, product listings, and related compliance data are timely, complete, accurate, and aligned with internal systems and policies.

· Define, lead, and report key compliance metrics and performance indicators to measure operational health, identify risks, and support clear progress toward business goals.

· Coordinate capacity planning, prioritize team assignments, and align work to business needs, critical initiatives, and compliance risk.

· Collaborate with Engineering, Quality, Product, Sourcing, Legal, Manufacturing, and other collaborators to identify, assess, and mitigate product compliance risks in new product launches, engineering changes, systems, and business processes.

· Develop and implement compliance governance, auditing, and continuous-improvement activities to ensure compliance standards and practices are maintained across the organization.

· Represent the company with standard development organizations, certifiers, government agencies, plumbing industry associations, and other external partners to support practical, risk-based solutions that protect consumers and advance business objectives.

· Partner with Product Compliance teams across business units to identify, share, and implement guidelines that improve compliance efficiency and organizational alignment.

· Provide regular communication to senior leadership on compliance performance, emerging requirements, trends, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.

Education & Experience:

· Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, technology, regulatory affairs, or a related technical field; or an equivalent combination of education and proven experience.

· 5 or more years of experience in product compliance, regulatory affairs, certification/listing management, product safety, standards, quality, engineering, or a comparable area.

· Proven leadership experience, including people leadership, project leadership, cross-functional influence, resource planning, and performance management.

· Experience interpreting and applying product standards, codes, regulations, and certification requirements to products and manufacturing processes.

· Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain technical and regulatory topics clearly to senior leaders, technical teams, and non-technical collaborators.

· Strong analytical capability and digital literacy, including experience using data, spreadsheets, reporting tools, or business systems to assess performance and support decisions; SAP and Power BI experience preferred.

· Experience participating in standards development organizations, certification bodies, trade associations, or regulatory advocacy activities preferred.

· Ability to work across time zones and participate in occasional international calls.

· Ability to travel approximately 15% domestically and internationally to manufacturing sites, business units, certification bodies, and association meetings.

Diversity and Inclusion:

At Delta Faucet Company, we view diversity as a mosaic of thoughts and perspectives that come from people’s varied cultural backgrounds, experiences, education, career paths and other influences that make each of us outstanding. For us, inclusion means welcoming differing opinions, collaborating, allowing people to come to work as who they are and recognizing everyone’s contributions. We know that in a diverse, inclusive company, ideas flow freely, all voices are heard, and all perspectives are valued. Delta Faucet Company continuously strives to be this kind