Environmental Regulatory Compliance Officer
Who we are
At Sonova, we envision a world where everyone can enjoy the delight of hearing. This vision inspires us and fuels our commitment to developing innovative solutions that improve hearing health and human connection - from personal audio devices and wireless communication systems to hearing aids and cochlear implants. We're dedicated to providing outstanding customer experiences through our global audiological care services, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to engage fully with the world around them.
Guided by a culture of continuous improvement that fosters resilience and self-motivation, our team is united by a shared commitment to excellence and a deep sense of pride in our work, each of us playing a vital role in creating meaningful change,
Here you’ll find a diverse range of opportunities that span both consumer and medical solutions and the freedom to shape your career while making an impact on the lives of others. Join us in our mission to create a more connected world, where every voice is heard and every story matters.
Environmental Regulatory Compliance Officer
This role requires a compliance expert to lead & support global environmental regulatory strategies for our consumer electronic products. Responsibilities include managing material compliance (RoHS, REACH, PFAS), packaging/battery directives, EPR programs, and managing packaging audits.
Core Responsibilities
- Regulatory Strategy & Implementation: Research, plan, and implement country specific environmental regulations including but not limited to material compliance, RoHS (EU, UK, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, UAE, Russia), REACH, WEEE, Prop65, TSSA, Packaging Directive/PPWR, EUDR, and restricted substances (Halogen, PFAS, PVC, EPS, PAH etc ), Sweeden Chemical Tax, Conflict Minerals, ErP, MEPS, DOE, NRCAN, BCS, Battery regulation etc
- Documentation & Data Management: Validate BOMs, assess Material Data, MSDS/SDS, and manage conformity assessments for products, batteries, accessories, spare parts and packaging.
- Operational Compliance: Lead Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs & train subsidiaries, handle regional notifications, declarations & reports, and manage regulatory authority audits.
- Internal compliance: Establish best practices & lead improvement initiatives
- Risk & Communication: Monitor legislations/regulations/standards, stay up to date, perform risk assessments, communicate critical risks, impacts and recommend solutions to mitigate risks to stakeholders.
- Sustainability: Identify & bridge the gap between sustainability ambitions and regulatory requirements, ensuring that green initiatives are actionable, compliant, and defensible in global market.
Key Responsibilities
- Extended Producer's Responsibility (EPR): Lead and manage EPR, ensuring all country-specific requirements for product, packaging and batteries are met.
- Stakeholder Interaction: Engage with authorities and service providers for environmental compliance, participate in regional industry groups representing company.
- Internal Standards: Develop and maintain internal environmental standards, specifications, and declarations.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, Chemical/Electrical/Electronic Engineering, or similar with 5+ years’ experience OR Diploma with 8+ years of experience in consumer electronics (A/V or ITE).
- Technical Skills: Deep knowledge of worldwide environmental regulations, hands on experience in managing complex environmental programs for material conformity, master data management systems and reporting.
- Soft Skills: Strong communication, ability to train and influence project stakeholders/suppliers, and capability to adapt to fast-paced regulatory changes. Ability to adapt well & apply agile to fast-paced regulatory changes, directions, and strategy.
- Professional Profile:
- Good team player, effective communicator, both verbally and in writing.
- Focused, meticulous, willing to learn new regulations and fast learner.
- Ability to think strategically beyond day-to-day work, make decisions, take responsibility and be accountable.
- Able to reflect on yourself & your work and have good empathy and assertiveness.
- Able to develop intercultural collaboration.
- Advantageous:
- Experience in RF, EMC, and Product Safety regulations
- Experience in using CIM Database System by CONTACT software.
The Sennheiser brand
The Sennheiser brand stands for premium quality in the field of audio products.
At Sonova Consumer Hearing, we develop and offer consumer devices such as headphones, soundbars and speech-enhanced hearables under the brand license of Sennheiser.
The business is headquartered in Hannover, Germany, and has approximately 650 employees worldwide. To continue to be among the best in the industry, we are always on the lookout for outstanding talent.