Job Description

Minimum requirements for the role:

• Must have a Bachelorxc2xb4s degree in Agriculture or Natural Sciences or equivalent
• Minimum 10 years relevant regulatory experience is essential
• Registration with the South African council for Scientific Professions (SACNASP) would be ideal
• Experience in managing a team and influencing across departments is important
• Must have attention to detail with high ethical standards and integrity

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Developing registration strategy for the crop protection portfolio, new products as well as renewals, maintenance and updates of registered products.
• Devising, managing, preparing and submitting registration dossiers for ZA and managing registration schedule through liaison with project team to achieve timeous registration that will generate new sales.
• Liaising with regulatory authorities and pro-actively guide field trialists and crop teams on regulatory requirements for individual development projects including protocol planning for residue trials.
• Budgeting for, and managing residue analyses that are critical for new product registration approvals resulting in sales growth for Agricultural Products.
• Managing the Product Labels and ensuring compliance with regulatory authorities.
• Pro-actively identifying opportunities for company products and also potential hurdles in registration process.
• Managing and developing the Regulatory team.
• Developing and maintaining a professional work relationship with regulatory authorities to ensure that the interests of the company are upheld.
• Ensuring all product labels are kept up to date and compliant.
• Keeping accurate records of up to date label information and communicating timeously any changes to labels to ensure compliance on labels of commercial product.
• Driving and managing the Patent Defence process.
• Managing product development process on a local level in coordination with technical manager.
• Deriving product development, re-registration and support needs (trials, protocol) and providing input to development of business cases.
• Ensuring the needed planning and implementation of the related project actions (e.g. trials, studies) for South Africa.

Please note that subsequent to the screening and shortlisting process, all further communication will be entered into, only with the shortlisted candidate

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