Regulatory Affairs Specialist

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We are looking for a Regulatory Affairs Specialist to join our Regulatory Affairs and Product Safety (RAPS) team in Franklinton, reporting to the global function of Regulatory Affairs & Product Safety Operations and Digitalization. In this role, you will help support the regulatory activities that enable Novonesis to produce, sell, import, export, and distribute its products. You’ll join a collaborative, service-oriented team working across local, regional, and global activities, with opportunities to continue developing your regulatory expertise in an international environment.

The Role & Your Impact

As a Regulatory Affairs Specialist, you will coordinate customer and regulatory requests, prepare documentation and submissions, and support registrations, certifications, permits, and other regulatory approvals. You’ll work closely with internal stakeholders, regulatory colleagues, customers, authorities, and external review organizations to keep routine regulatory activities moving forward accurately and efficiently.

In this role, you’ll make an impact by:

• Managing regulatory and customer inquiries through Salesforce, primarily for enzyme and microbial products in the United States and Canada, including:
  • Delivering timely, accurate, and consistent responses, meeting agreed turnaround times.

• • Maintaining accurate, up-to-date regulatory data in Salesforce and related information-management systems to support consistency across regions.
  • Helping improve digital workflows and case-handling practices to increase efficiency and customer satisfaction.
• Preparing and coordinating documentation for regulatory approvals, registrations and renewals, permits, licenses, certificates, U.S. state registrations, tonnage reporting, and international submissions.

• Supporting facility, new-product, import, and export-related submissions involving domestic and international authorities.

• Coordinating third-party product and ingredient reviews, including CleanGredients, Safer Choice, and Green Seal submissions and renewals.

• Providing operational regulatory support for the Franklinton and Blair sites, including certificates, affidavits, supplier coordination, and regulatory raw-material approvals.

• Serving as a point of contact for internal stakeholders and external reviewers, participating in regional and customer projects, and continuing to build your technical knowledge of Novonesis products.

What You’ll Need to Be Successful

• A bachelor’s degree in life science, food science, animal science, chemistry, biology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 4+ years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree, 2+ years with a master’s degree, or 1+ years with an advanced degree, based on the career-level requirements provided. Experience with regulated industries, including Animal Biosolution, Household Care, or related product and ingredient industries, is preferred.
• Experience with regulatory operations, customer documentation, certification submissions, product registrations, or another regulated environment.
• Professional written and spoken English.
• Strong attention to detail and a systematic approach to documentation, data quality, and follow-up.
• The ability to independently manage routine assignments while following established policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Clear, service-minded communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships with internal teams, customers, authorities, and external partners.
• The ability to prioritize requests, recognize urgency, and manage multiple activities effectively.

Additional Skills & Interests We Value

• Experience with Salesforce or a similar electronic information and document management system.
• Strong digital skills and confidence working with workflow and information-management systems.
• An interest in continuing to develop your technical, digital, and regulatory knowledge in an international organization.

Ways of Working / Working Conditions

• Location: Franklinton, North Carolina, USA
• Hybrid working: Office-first hybrid schedule, with a minimum of three days per week onsite and up to two days per week working from home.
• Collaboration: Work with colleagues and stakeholders across the United States and internationally, including teams in Denmark, India, and China.
• Travel: Approximately one week of travel to Denmark per year is expected.

Compensation & benefits

Expected base salary: $75,000-$85,000 USD, depending on experience, qualifications, and internal equity.

Benefits you will enjoy:

• 401(k) with up to a 9% company contribution
• Minimum of 3 weeks of vacation, 12 holidays, and 2 weeks of Wellness Time
• Health, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance
• Healthcare Savings Account (HSA) option
• Employee Assistance Program
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• All benefits begin on your first day

Application deadline

November 23, 2026

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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Our History

In 2024, Chr. Hansen and Novozymes joined forces to form Novonesis.

We are 10,000 people worldwide whose expertise spans more than 30 different industries. All around the world our biosolutions already create value for thousands of customers and benefit the planet. Our biosolutions enable feeding and fueling the world more sustainably, from healthy and sustainable nutrition to biofuel. Our biosolutions also reduce the use of fossil-based resources, chemicals, energy and water. And this is just the beginning.