Compliance Delivery Lead

Job Title: Compliance Delivery Lead
Location: WMFTS UK - UK - Cardrew Industrial Estate, Cornwall
Location Type: Hybrid
Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/
Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

When you join us, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

Key Responsibilities:

The Compliance Delivery Lead is responsible for collating, checking and submitting data on the company’s products to ensure that they can be certified to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. They will work with the Engineering, GRV, Supply, and Manufacturing teams to ensure compliance with all relevant rules and regulations. The Compliance Delivery lead will work with third party compliance certification providers, test houses, component suppliers and Engineers to achieve product approvals. They will create and maintain the compliance data required for products within the WMFTS Regulatory Database (held within the PLM), including raising orders to allow external certification tests to be completed on their renewal dates. This role will also act as the key contact point for the Indian Engineering Hub compliance delivery engineers, coordinating their activities and ensuring they follow processes, utilise the correct business tools and deliver in line with the required quality levels in the timeframes required.

Key accountabilities include:

• Regulatory Database Oversight: Manage the ongoing integrity of the compliance data within the regulatory database, ensuring that the compliance data held is up to date and surfaced within the business to the correct stakeholders. Maintain the external standards database, (BSI), investigating and adding new standards as required to build the knowledge of the business.
• Delivery Readiness: Ensure all compliance certification delivery‑critical inputs are complete, clear, and aligned with business priorities before third party certification begins. Ensure external test activities required for certification are sequenced and delivered in time to support certification and that compliance data maturity aligns with delivery needs.
• Communication and Collaboration Act as the primary liaison between third party certification parties during submission of products to list and when updating listing reports, ensuring clear communication, compliance and testing clarification, and rapid alignment with technical leads on decisions needed to maintain delivery momentum.
• Technical: Work closely with engineers, technical leads and GRV to understand the applicable standards and the evidence needed to support compliance to said standards. Where necessary, work with external consultants to build a better understanding of directives and standards, including country & regional specific standards, and on how they should be applied to components/sub-systems within products and the finished products themselves.
  Ensure that standards are being applied appropriately, consistently and the evidence required can be realistically achieved.
• Delivery Leadership and Accountability: Collaborate with Engineering and wider project stakeholders to define and plan compliance initiatives, ensuring scope, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and cost/effort are understood and that delivery commitments are realistically shaped and aligned with business needs.
  Work with engineering management to adjust sequencing, priorities, and resources to maintain delivery flow when faced with cross‑functional constraints or changing business needs.
• Data Gathering and Analysis: Collaborate with stakeholders to understand compliance needs and documentation evidence required for certification; working with engineers, suppliers, GRV, manufacturing and test houses.
  Collect, collate, review and quality assure data prior to submission to third parties and collaborate with third parties when queries arise to find solutions that align with business requirements as well as compliance requirements
• Risk Assessment and Mitigation:
  Identify potential risks and challenges in compliance delivery and work proactively to mitigate these risks with help from the Project Team.
  Provide recommendations for risk management and contingency planning.
• Process Improvement: Stay informed about compliance trends, best practices, and emerging technologies.
  Recommend process improvements and optimisations to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

Skills/Experience:

• Systematic Thinking: Approaching problems and solutions with structured analysis; ensuring all aspects of compliance, data analysis, data assurance, data consistency and data flow are considered within the context of business delivery, business value and compliance delivery.
  Collaboration: Working effectively across functions and disciplines, building relationships that enhance project outcomes and team effectiveness.
• Results Orientation – Focussing relentlessly on the outcome of our actions and how that improves the business performance in terms of service, quality and cost.
• Technical Acumen: Ability to apply and maintain compliance knowledge, specifically the Directives, Regulations and Standards applicable to Peristaltic pumps. Stays abreast of the global alignment of standards and national deviations applicable to WMFTS products, especially Peristaltic Pumps. Can understand complex technical designs and solutions and how applicable compliance link to said designs and solutions.
• Customer-Focused Mindset: Maintaining a service-oriented approach, ensuring the needs of internal users are understood and addressed.

At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible working arrangements
• A generous holiday allowance
• Three days’ paid volunteering leave
• Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include

• Gender-neutral parental leave
• 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave
• Paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse
• Menopause-friendly workplace principles and more

Learn more at spiraxgroup.com/inclusion.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form.

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

If you require accommodations during the application process, please let us know.

Company Overview
At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, part of Spirax Group, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.

Our shared Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 116 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.