Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist Job at Spectrum Brands, Blacksburg, VA

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  • Spectrum Brands
  • Blacksburg, VA

Job Description

Hybrid role in Blacksburg, VA

Job Title
Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist
Job #
US20011
Requisition Type
Regular
Function
Legal & Risk
State/Province
Virginia
City
Blacksburg
Region
US
Posting Start Date
Jul-20-2026

Division Information

Spectrum Brands Pet is a leading global provider of innovative, high-quality pet care products. With a commitment to enhancing the lives of pets and their owners, we offer a comprehensive range of pet supplies, including food, treats, grooming essentials, toys, and accessories. Come be a part of our mission to enrich the lives of pets and bring joy to households worldwide.

The Pet Care business unit of Spectrum Brands is based in St. Louis, Missouri with distribution, manufacturing and sales offices throughout the US and globe. Owners of dogs, cats, birds, small animals, fish and reptiles rely on our brands for exceptional value and trusted results. Our industry-leading brands include Tetra®, Instant Ocean®, Marineland®, 8-in-1®, Dingo®, FURminator®, Nature’s Miracle®, GloFish®, DreamBone® and SmartBones®.

Job Summary

As a Senior Regulatory Affairs Specialist for the Pet Care team, you will be partnering across marketing, R&D, supply chain, and other key functions to bring new innovations to market while ensuring product compliance.  This role contributes directly to company growth and profitability, managing regulatory risk, helping protect our freedom to operate, and ultimately supports Spectrum Brands success. 

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

  • Serve as vital member within our new product development teams ensuring innovations successfully reach the market on time and in compliance
  • Technical expertise in SDS authoring, product labelling, claims substantiation, and product registrations covering regulations like GHS, CPSC, ECCC, EPA FIFRA, DOT, and OSHA.
  • Actively monitor and effectively communicate key regulatory knowledge, trends, and risks that could impact our products
  • Fully adopt the culture of process documentation, optimization, and consistent execution
  • Model the Spectrum Brands eight Core Capability to achieve service excellence, meet and exceed organizational objectives and support fiscal responsibility

What does success look like?

Success in this role is achieved by building and maintaining trust with cross-functional teams while ensuring accurate and consistent compliance, proactively identifying and mitigating regulatory risks, and enabling business operations through practical and effective solutions. 

Education and Experience Profile

  • Role not eligible for sponsorship
  • B.S. or B.A. in chemistry, biology or related field OR 5 years of equivalent experience required
  • 3+ years of experience in regulatory affairs required
  • 1+ year of experience authoring Safety Data Sheets preferred

Required Skills

  • Highly effective communication skills, both written and verbal, executed across multiple layers of an organization
  • Demonstrated success leveraging regulations in the chemical, pesticide, and/or cleaning products space to enable both compliance and successful product launches
  • Ability to both work in the details, but also develop and execute regulatory business strategies
  • Ability to work well both independently and as part of a cross-functional team
  • Adapts well to change and evolving priorities
  • Works well within regulatory processes, documentation management systems, and managing multiple projects at once
  • Ability to support formulation activities, raw material reviews, and R&D study design

Work Environment

This position is a hybrid role. Hybrid role offers work from home flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.

The salary range for this role is $87,857 to $131,786. An employee's pay within this range will be determined based on several factors, including but not limited to education, qualifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business needs.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Spectrum Brands is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

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