Manager, Product Stewardship & Regulatory Affairs

Johnson Controls • Marinette, WI

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About The Position

The Manager Product Stewardship & Regulatory Affairs (PSRA) – Dual Mandate role combines global regulatory authority with digital and AI enablement leadership. This position is accountable for ensuring worldwide compliance of fire suppression hardware and chemical agents with complex chemical control laws and product safety regimes, while simultaneously owning the design, deployment, and evolution of business systems and AI‑enabled capabilities that operationalize regulatory intelligence at scale. The role acts as both a market‑access protector and a digital product owner for PSRA, partnering with engineering, R&D, manufacturing, supply chain, quality, legal, IT, data science, and commercial teams to embed regulatory requirements and compliance intelligence throughout the product lifecycle and enterprise workflows. The Dual Mandate Accountability includes a Regulatory Authority Mandate, where the role serves as the authoritative internal expert for global hardware and chemical control regulatory regimes, protecting global market access and business continuity through timely, defensible regulatory decisions, and leading interpretation, implementation, and governance of chemical and product compliance obligations across regions. The Digital & AI Enablement Mandate involves owning PSRA business systems, data architecture, and advanced analytics capabilities to support PSRA team regulatory compliance tasks, translating regulatory requirements into scalable digital controls, automated workflows, and AI‑assisted decision support, and working within the Stage Gate process to embed regulatory intelligence directly into product, supply chain, and customer‑facing processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Engineering, Materials Science, Regulatory Science, Data Science, or a related technical discipline.
• 7–10+ years of experience in global regulatory affairs, product stewardship, or product compliance roles.
• Demonstrated authority managing global chemical control and hardware regulatory requirements.
• Experience designing or deploying AI, automation, or advanced analytics solutions within regulatory or compliance environments.
• Expert understanding of global chemical control and product regulatory frameworks.
• Ability to balance regulatory rigor with pragmatic, business‑enabling solutions.
• Strong systems thinking with advanced data literacy.
• Credibility and influence across technical, commercial, digital, and leadership audiences.
• Proven ability to operate as both regulatory authority and digital transformation leader.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in a technical, scientific, regulatory, or data‑oriented discipline.
• Experience applying automation, analytics, or AI within regulated product or compliance environments.
• Strong understanding of audit, enforcement, and regulatory defensibility expectations.

Responsibilities

• Ensure sustained global compliance of fire suppression hardware and chemical agent products across all served markets.
• Act as regulatory decision authority for complex or high‑risk global compliance issues.
• Lead regulatory strategy for high‑complexity NPI, sustaining products, and major material or supplier changes.
• Deliver scalable, system‑enabled regulatory intelligence through modern business platforms and AI‑driven tools.
• Anticipate emerging regulatory risks and proactively mitigate business, supply chain, and product safety impacts.
• Lead interpretation and application of global chemical and hardware regulatory regimes, including TSCA, REACH (Registration & SVHC), RoHS, WEEE, CPSC, Proposition 65, CE/UKCA, DSL/NDSL, SCIP, and analogous APAC and LATAM regulations.
• Own global regulatory impact assessments and compliance pathways for new and revised regulations.
• Establish defensible approaches for substance restrictions, material declarations, labeling, documentation, and customer disclosures.
• Serve as regulatory escalation point for audits, customer inquiries, and enforcement‑related issues.
• Embed global regulatory requirements into early‑stage product design, architecture, and material selection.
• Ensure end‑to‑end lifecycle compliance including manufacturing changes, obsolescence, and end‑of‑life obligations.
• Provide regulatory guidance for scale‑up, process changes, and global supply chain transitions.
• Own and advance PSRA digital platforms supporting chemical management, product compliance, supplier data, and regulatory reporting.
• Act as PSRA business owner for IT and data science initiatives, defining system requirements and priority roadmaps.
• Design and deploy AI‑enabled capabilities such as: Automated global regulatory horizon scanning, Intelligent SDS and material risk screening, Predictive compliance risk assessment by product and market, AI‑assisted customer documentation and inquiry management.
• Ensure regulatory data governance, traceability, transparency, and audit readiness across systems.
• Define global supplier compliance data standards and validation requirements.
• Drive scalable, digital integration of supplier material and chemical data.
• Ensure timely, accurate regulatory disclosures to customers, authorities, and certification bodies.
• Mentor PSRA team members on global regulatory strategy, systems thinking, and risk‑based decision‑making.
• Influence engineering, operations, and commercial leaders by embedding regulatory intelligence into decision workflows.
• Define KPIs, dashboards, and governance mechanisms to measure global compliance health and system effectiveness.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Paid vacation/holidays/sick time
• Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care.
• On-the-job/cross-training opportunities
• Encouraging and collaborative team environment
• Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy
• Competitive Bonus plan that will take into account individual, group, and corporate performance.
• competitive benefits package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees