Senior Consultant - REACH

Overview

Role: Senior Consultant (REACH Lead)

Location: UK Flexible / Spain, Madrid / New Delhi, India

Role ID: 2025-2687

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

We are looking for an experienced chemical regulatory affairs professional with the skills to work in our REACH consultancy business in the European Union and UK. This role can also be based in New Delhi, India.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a broad skill set including technical, project management, and commercial development skills looking to take a career step either into or within consultancy. You will help to lead a successful team and continue Ricardo’s strong growth trajectory as the world implements more regulations to safely manage chemicals. This is an ideal role for someone who wants to take ownership for a high growth potential product area, make their mark, and drive significant business performance.

As a Senior REACH Consultant, your main responsibilities will be:

• Using your extensive technical knowledge to oversee and contribute to the delivery of client work at the project manager or project lead level, including contributing with your own specialisms as needed.
• Proactively managing projects and customers allowing you to deliver excellence and win repeat business.
• Supporting our client relationships and the account management team by joining key customer discussions and identifying new areas of opportunity with the client.
• Liaising with marketing and sales staff to ensure effective promotion of Ricardo’s REACH capabilities in support of sales activities, identifying opportunities for growth, and contributing to the development of effective marketing strategy with the Sales Director.
• Supporting wider market outreach, including presenting at conferences, building and engaging with a personal network, and positioning Ricardo as a strategic partner externally.
• Collaborating and identifying strategic opportunities for new products and services with other Ricardo business areas including our environmental chemistry and toxicology, chemicals policy, agriculture, and water teams on a global basis.
• Keeping up to date with market trends and developments. Coaching and knowledge sharing with team members, helping others to grow their knowledge of the REACH regulation and how it applies to clients.

Minimum Requirements:

• Excellent knowledge of the UK and European chemical regulatory landscape with specific specialism in EU and UK REACH, and in emerging European policy.
• Hands-on experience with all aspects of REACH registration including data gap analysis, study design and monitoring, dossier preparation in IUCLID, and making submissions through REACH-IT, managing project costs, working with stakeholder groups and regulators.
• Performing and managing high quality technical projects in the field of chemical regulatory affairs and effective delegation of work.
• Excellent communication skills, used to presenting your ideas and project outputs to internal stakeholders, customers, and at regulatory conferences, events, or through webinars, blogs, etc.
• Contributing to the development and implementation of a business strategy with respect to chemical regulation.
• A supportive colleague and coach who enables the team to successfully deliver regulatory consultancy projects and supports personal development of colleagues and clients as needed.
• Bringing your own network of contacts from customers and stakeholder organisations would be a benefit but not essential – candidates from consultant, industry, and regulator positions are welcome.
• Experience in global chemical substance registration or other regulatory sectors (e.g., biocides, food, cosmetics, etc.) would be a benefit but is not essential.

Working here:

Ricardo is an exciting and rewarding place to work and you have the opportunity to make a difference. You will work with teams of talented, dedicated, and supportive individuals. Alongside having a fantastic opportunity to develop your career with us through our broad range of projects, mentoring opportunities, and a personalised approach to your learning and development. We are always keen to hear from people who have drive, ambition, and a flair for innovative thinking.

Wellbeing and work-life balance:

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that's working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core of our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our People are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including flexible working, carers policy, mental health first aiders, and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance programme.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement:

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and proactively with all our employees and ensure a culture of inclusivity, we are recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Benefits:

Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance, and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Next Steps:

Once you have submitted your application, a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary depending on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer - please advise the recruitment team via recruit.ee@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.