About us
We are ALTANA: one group of companies - four divisions: BYK, ECKART, ELANTAS, and ACTEGA. A global leader in specialty chemicals and with myriad opportunities for you to develop and grow. Enrich your life with this decisive plus!
With more than 8,000 employees, the ALTANA Group achieved sales of over 3 billion euros in 2024. BYK, as part of the ALTANA Group, is a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals. Our innovative and sustainable additives improve scratch resistance and surface gloss, the mechanical strength or flow behavior of materials, and properties such as UV and light stability or flame retardancy.
With around 1,000 employees, Wesel has been BYK’s largest location since 1962. We offer jobs and apprenticeships in the areas of production, laboratory, IT, and administration. BYK produces additives for the coatings, printing inks, and plastics industries. Our additives are manufactured and tested in Wesel and transported to the fully automated high-bay warehouse in Emmelsum for shipment. In recent years, the company has invested a triple-digit million amount in the Wesel site - including in our large digital laboratory.
Regulatory Affairs Specialist - Global Regulatory Notification and Control (m/f/d)
Location: Wesel near Düsseldorf
Exciting opportunities await you - as Regulatory Affairs Specialist in the field of global regulatory notification and control, you will coordinate regulatory activities worldwide and secure regulatory information to ensure the compliance of new products with all relevant legislation. This includes:
Informing and advising R&D project leads and end-use managers about the global regulatory marketability status of products
Coordinating and submitting Poison Center Notifications (PCN) by the automated system-to-system service (S2S)
Ensuring correct transfer of customs and export control data to the SAP Global Trade Services (GTS) system
Identifying and following up on reporting and notification obligations under global export control legislation such as the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Regulation
Improving, implementing and maintaining regulatory notification processes
Enhancing global substance volume tracking and notification checks
Answering customer requests about unique formula identifiers, PCN and export control relating to our products
With this profile, you convince us - if you bring a degree in natural sciences, e.g. chemistry (MSc preferred), a track record in global chemical notifications and experience with S2S PCN as well as excellent communication and (re)presentation abilities, analytical prowess, the capability of proposing solutions to complex topics and dexterity in handling multiple responsibilities, we warmly invite you to apply. Your other skills and competencies include:
Several years’ experience in SAP, Accolade advantageous
Proficiency in English, additional languages are a plus
Self-starter with hands-on mentality
Versed team player working well in a multifunctional, international team
Strong sense of confidentiality
In the ALTANA Group, you will work in a unique culture of innovation where the utmost importance is attached to promoting individual ideas and abilities as well as open, trusting interaction.
BYK offers you a lot of advantages. They include pleasant-sized operations where employees get to know each other personally and exchange ideas, short information and decision-making paths, comprehensive further education and training offers, flexible working hours with flextime and an impressive compensation with good employee benefits and pension plans.