Compliance Delivery Lead

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.