Team Lead for VAT Compliance in a hybrid role overseeing compliance teams and processes. Leading operational standards and addressing VAT regulatory requirements in an international environment.
About the role
- Product Safety Manager in Gap Inc.'s Product Safety & Trade Compliance team, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance for beauty and accessories. Collaborating across teams to implement safety strategies and manage risks.
Responsibilities
- Conduct product safety reviews and risk assessments for new beauty, accessory, toys, and footwear products during concept and adoption stages, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and Gap Inc. safety standards.
- Document issues found and provide actionable recommendations.
- Communicate risks and recommendations clearly, leading or participating in cross-functional meetings, and delivering written and verbal updates to drive alignment and compliance.
- Support regulatory strategy by monitoring global regulatory changes, conducting market research, and translating insights into policy updates.
- Manage the beauty (cosmetics) testing program, including safety, stability, claim substantiation, and regulatory reporting.
- Analyze test results, resolve testing failures, monitor lab/vendor KPIs, and support lab/consultant management (cost, capability, turnaround time).
- Provide training to vendors and internal teams on product safety standards, testing programs, and protocols.
- Support updates to product safety and regulatory manuals, test protocols, labeling guidelines, SOPs, and other program documentation.
- Assist in investigating in-market issues and adverse events, conducting root cause analysis and corrective/preventive actions (CAPA), and escalating to Senior Management, Legal, and Brand teams as needed.
- Represent Gap Inc. externally, attending trade association meetings and providing regular updates to internal stakeholders.
Requirements
- 5–7 years in product safety, regulatory compliance, testing, and quality across beauty/personal care, accessories, footwear, and toys.
- Expertise in beauty/cosmetics for the U.S. and Canada markets, including FDA MoCRA, Prop 65, and Health Canada requirements.
- Familiarity with ingredients, IFRA standards, labeling, safety and claim substantiation, ISO 22716 GMP, and international regulations (e.g. Japan, Mexico, EU, and/or UK) is a plus
- Expertise in adult and children’s accessories and footwear for the U.S. and international markets, with working knowledge of CPSIA, ASTM, GPSR, SATRA, Prop 65, REACH, and related standards.
- Proven ability to establish product safety standards and interpret test results to support business-critical decisions.
- Strong ability to navigate between strategic and tactical work, with excellent multi-tasking, prioritization, and time management skills.
- Self-motivated and results-driven, with a sense of urgency and attention to detail.
- Demonstrated success in cross-functional collaboration, building consensus across Brand merchandising and production teams, Sourcing, QA, Legal, and vendor teams.
- Skilled in influencing and resolving differing viewpoints.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to engage effectively with Brand teams, vendors, and laboratories.
- Must have strong technical writing capabilities.
- Strength in supplier engagement, including training, capability assessments, corrective action leadership, and change management.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, PLM, etc.
- Project management skills are a plus.
- BS/BA degree preferred.
Benefits
- Occasional vendor, lab, DC, and sourcing office visits as business requires
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