Manager, Regulatory Compliance at NAPA Auto Parts – Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, GA, USA
Full time
R26_0000002510

Position Mission:

The Regulatory Compliance Manager is principally responsible for managing risks for non-compliance to product hazard related regulations as well as regulatory reporting requirements. This will require the role to develop needed regulatory intelligence to be proactive and develop and maintain professional relationships with internal stakeholders (operations, quality, product engineering category, catalog, supply chain, etc.) as well as with government agencies and professional organizations and manage outreach information for all these groups in a consolidated SharePoint. This role also includes performing related actions with Suppliers for NAPA's product assortment to ensure compliance to the regulations and legislations that apply. Responsible for ensuring that suppliers continue to develop and implement best practices related to regulatory compliance.

Position Performance Measures:

• Record and maintain a forward-looking compliance calendar
• Develop business data reports for use in regulatory projects.
• Deliver required outreach activities to educate and inform key stakeholders (including stores, DCs) of regulatory compliance requirements and impact to them.
• Track and monitor Regulatory Intelligence metrics such as Compliance Rate % and develop corrective actions on non-compliance to targets.
• Manage record keeping that can be leveraged instantly for any customer inquiries as well as any legal concerns coming from regulatory bodies or legal department.

Responsibilities:

• Conducting gap analysis in partnership with category and suppliers to ensure products are in compliance and executing sales bans to fix compliance gaps and sales release to fix any erroneous sales bans or in response to restriction status change as specified by suppliers. There is an expectation to be proficient in the existing regulation apps and manage troubleshooting where needed as well as facilitate any associated bulletins / disposition activities that need to be executed by operations and category.
• Develop regulatory intelligence reporting from business and regulatory databases to proactively manage risk exposure for NAPA. This includes developing meaningful KPI's that prioritize and enable effective risk management via root cause analyses and corrective action implementation cross-functionally.
• Develops procedures and reporting to generate supplier lists, surveys as required by compliance calendar or the business. For the reporting, critical thinking needs to be engaged to design the reporting to meet government regulations.
• Preparing risk management/compliance reports / records needed for sharing with customers / sales teams or government agencies when requested.
• Managing corrective actions for any non-compliance events including high risk government violations and recalls. This includes interfacing with any regulatory body or customer where required.
• Manage outreach efforts to educate and inform to key stakeholders as required. These include stores that need information on which SKUs are banned for sale in their region.

Experience, Education, and Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required.
• 5-7+ years professional experience in regulatory compliance, regulatory reporting analytics, quality operations, engineering, or closely related fields
• 5+ years automotive experience preferred.
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Ability to be a reporting and application SME by independently navigating business data analytics reporting including PowerBI, regulation apps and any other supplier diverse spend apps. Advanced proficiency in excel is a must.
• Ability to use critical thinking to develop efficient action plans and to anticipate project risks that will be needed to be mitigated.
• Ability to distill complex (eg. multiple jurisdictions and product attributes) and large volume (can be as high as 70K SKUs) data into concise executive reports.
• Experience using various computer applications including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and other applications in the Microsoft Office Suite. Ability to use AI tools is preferred.
• Ability to multi-task on competing priorities and work across all internal departments to drive projects to on-time completion.
• Highly motivated individual that has a strong drive for results; communicates effectively both in written and verbal communication formats.

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Where permitted by applicable law, successful applicants must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to start date. COVID-19 vaccination is a condition of employment, subject to an approved accommodation, and proof of vaccination will be required on or prior to start date.

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC’s policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.See Description