Manager-Product Stewardship, Chemical regulations, and Trade Control

Objectives of the Position

• Act as National Trade Control officer to monitor trade control related regulations and ensure the trade control compliance for BASF products.
• Responsible for product stewardship, chemical regulation in India
• Support the implementation of Responsible Care® initiatives and compliance to BASF and protecting the company’s property and Brand and the environment.
• Act as Country Expert and responsible for Safety data sheets and product labels for BASF products in India.
• Manage, lead, train and develop Site product stewards and coordination with regional Product Safety team.
• Keep knowledge up to date on the new chemical regulations in country and its implication to BASF and implementation in BASF

Main Areas of Responsibilities and Key Activities

Product Stewardship:

• Acts as Country RC Code Leader for Product Stewardship
• Responsible for the competence development and performance of Site Product Stewards.
• Provide advisory and consultancy services to the sites & Operating Divisions
• Responsible for the roll out of Product Safety and Product Stewardship Directives and implement BASF global guidelines in India.

Trade control:

• Responsible for Trade control compliance in India as National Trade control officer.
• Reporting of the trade control non-compliance and ensuring corrective measures.
• Liaison with Trade control team of Asia Pacific Region, global trade control team on trade control regulations and ensure proper implementation of BASF guidelines/standards.

Chemical regulations

• Act as a competence and advice coordinator for chemical regulations for BASF in India.
• Monitoring of any regulatory developments in the country.
• Implementation of Chemical inventory / India REACH like regulation.
• Liaison with product safety team of Asia Pacific Region on chemical regulations and ensure proper implementation of BASF guidelines/standards.

Country Expert:

• Act as Country Safety Data Sheet (SDS or MSDS) expert for BASF in India.
• Act as Country Label Expert (CLE) for BASF In India.

Training:

• Training of site plant product steward responsible persons on Product Stewardship and Chemical regulations.

Chemical Regulations Advocacy:

• Develop collaborative relations with external Chemical Industry Associations e.g. Indian Chemical Council (ICC), CII, FICCI &CHEMEXCIL for common understanding on new regulations and advocacy with government

Competency Network:

• Responsible for coordinating with EHS regional team for the Product stewardship, chemical regulations, and trade control topics.

General EHS/RC:

• Whenever and wherever required support the company in general EHS & Responsible care topic

Job Requirements

Education: M.Sc. (Chemistry) or B.E./ B. Tech (Chemical Engineering)

Working Experience: More than 10 years of working experience in product stewardship/product safety or chemical manufacturing plant or R&D or EHS

Technical & Professional Knowledge:

• Good Product Stewardship and Responsible Care system knowledge
• Knowledge of international trade control regulations and restrictions
• Sound knowledge of national and international chemical regulations
• Knowledge of GHS classification & labelling (C&L) regulations.
• Good understanding of master data system (BASIS -SAP), supply chain and business processes of BASF.
• Excellent communication and management skill, familiar with local legislation system and legal requirements in EHS.