Head – Compliance & Regulatory Affairs

About US

Scimplify is a science-first manufacturing company for Advanced Materials: from specialty chemicals to the emerging building blocks of next-generation energy applications, life sciences, and crop sciences.

We scale process development and manufacturing as one continuous system, supported by world-class R&D infrastructure and executed across a global network of 500+ manufacturing partners and thousands of scientists and technical partners. The result: new materials go from molecule to commercial scale in months, not years. Scimplify operates offices and teams across 5 countries with 1,000+ innovator customers in 40+ countries.

We are backed by investors such as Accel, Bertelsmann, Omnivore, Hitachi Ventures and 3one4 Capital, having raised over $80M.

Role Overview

Scimplify is looking for an experienced Head - Compliance & Regulatory Affairs to lead and build the company’s regulatory and compliance function across its specialty chemicals, agrochemicals, pharmaceutical intermediates, and contract manufacturing businesses.

The role will be responsible for establishing a robust compliance framework, ensuring adherence to applicable domestic and international chemical regulations, managing product registrations and regulatory documentation, and working closely with R&D, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and commercial teams to enable compliant business expansion across global markets.

Key responsibilities

• Regulatory Strategy: Develop and implement a comprehensive regulatory and compliance framework aligned with Scimplify’s business operations and international expansion plans.
• Chemical Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with applicable regulations, including REACH, UK REACH, TSCA, GHS/CLP, and other relevant chemical control regulations, depending on product and market requirements.
• Product Stewardship: Oversee product classification, hazard communication, SDS preparation and review, chemical labelling, safety documentation, and regulatory data management.
• Agrochemical & Pharmaceutical Compliance: Provide regulatory oversight for relevant agrochemical active ingredients, intermediates, pharmaceutical intermediates, and APIs, where applicable to the business.
• Domestic Compliance: Ensure adherence to applicable Indian environmental, chemical handling, storage, transportation, import-export, and industrial regulatory requirements.
• Manufacturing & Supplier Compliance: Establish compliance requirements for contract manufacturing partners, suppliers, and third-party facilities; conduct assessments and coordinate audits where required.
• Import, Export & Trade Compliance: Support cross-border trade through regulatory classification, documentation, restricted-substance screening, and applicable import-export requirements.
• Regulatory Documentation & Registrations: Manage regulatory submissions, product dossiers, declarations, customer questionnaires, certificates, and supporting technical documentation.
• Audit & Risk Management: Establish internal compliance audits, risk assessments, corrective and preventive action processes, and systems to monitor regulatory changes.
• Cross-functional Leadership: Partner with R&D, quality, manufacturing, procurement, legal, and commercial teams to integrate regulatory requirements into product development, sourcing, manufacturing, and market entry.
• Team & Process Development: Build the regulatory team, standard operating procedures, compliance systems, and governance processes required to support business growth.

Desired candidate profiles

• 12+ years of experience in regulatory affairs, chemical compliance, product stewardship, or regulatory leadership within the chemicals or related industries.
• Strong knowledge of global chemical regulations, hazard classification, GHS, SDS authoring and management, and chemical product compliance.
• Experience with international regulatory frameworks such as EU REACH, UK REACH, US TSCA, and applicable regional chemical regulations.
• Exposure to agrochemicals, specialty chemicals, pharmaceutical intermediates, APIs, or contract manufacturing environments.
• Experience managing regulatory documentation, supplier compliance, customer audits, regulatory assessments, and cross-border trade requirements.
• Proven ability to establish compliance processes and manage regulatory risks in a growing or complex business environment.
• Strong stakeholder management, analytical, communication, and team leadership skills.

Preferred Background: Specialty chemicals, agrochemicals, chemical manufacturing, CDMO/contract manufacturing, pharmaceutical intermediates, or product stewardship organisations.

Key success matrics

• Establishment of a scalable regulatory and compliance framework.
• Compliance readiness across domestic and international markets.
• Timely completion of regulatory documentation and submissions.
• Reduction of compliance risks and non-conformities.
• Improved supplier and manufacturing partner compliance.
• Effective support for new product launches and market expansion.

Ideal candidate

A strategic and hands-on regulatory leader who can build Scimplify’s compliance function, translate complex regulatory requirements into practical business processes, and enable safe, compliant, and sustainable growth across domestic and global markets.