Job Description

About the role:

Roper Rhodes is one of Britain's leading companies in Bathroom products and is a certified 'Great Place to Work' employer. We are looking for a talented & enthusiastic person who is looking to develop their career as a Compliance specialist to work within our Product Development Team. This position reports to the Technical Manager and is a role where there is scope for development.

The successful candidate will work closely with our Sustainability Manager, Procurement Manager, Quality Team and Product Category Management Team in a close knit and friendly environment. You will be at the forefront of ensuring our products and supply chain align with both local and international regulatory requirements whilst keeping abreast with regulatory change to ensure compliance. Whilst some experience would be beneficial, there will be learning on the job as well as through supplementary training. This exciting opportunity is based at our Headquarters in the city of Bath with occasional travel to our Warehouse in Bristol. There is the opportunity of some hybrid working too.

The key elements of the position are as follows:

Assisting the Technical Manager in maintaining and developing compliance policies and practices, ensuring adherence to requirements including but not limited to:

Health & Safety Requirements. UK/EU Timber & Deforestation Regulations. Supporting on-going product testing, audits and certification requirements for schemes including: Water Regulations Approvals Scheme (WRAS). Thermostatic Mixer Valve Scheme (TMV2). Forest certification schemes including FSC & PEFC. Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX). Working with the New Product Development Team, ensuring that new products meet the necessary BS/EN safety and performance requirements including Electrical Safety, Water Regulatory requirements as well as performing FMEA (Failure Mode & Effect Analysis) on prototype products with other stakeholders before design sign-off. Updating product compliance data on National Retailer databases. Working with our Quality Team and our international supplier base on a continuous improvement basis, in particular compiling Supplier Corrective Action Reports (SCAR).

The Applicant:

The successful applicant will ideally have some background working in a Compliance or Technical based role, preferably in a Building or Consumer products environment, with a minimum of 3 years' work experience. There is also opportunity for further training as well as learning on the job, in a role which will develop your career to the next level.

Key Skills:

An ability to manage complex projects and initiatives. Excellent analytical and data management skills. Highly organised, detail oriented and practiced in working on multiple projects at once with a proactive approach. Very bright and practical, with outstanding communication skills, and an ability to translate regulatory requirements across the business. Capability to work and liaise internally and externally with people at all levels. Exceptional level of integrity. A willingness to learn and develop with a high degree of curiosity. A-Level educated including Mathematics and/or a Science based subject:

Preferred Skills:

Some knowledge and experience of chain of custody, traceability and regulatory requirements for Building or Consumer Products, preferably including electrical and/or water delivery products. Experience collaborating with global supply chains. Experience in conducting audits with external auditors. An interest and passion in Sustainable design and working within the Circular Economy. An understanding of a wide variety of manufacturing processes and materials. An interest in the built environment.

Who we are:

Roper Rhodes are a supplier of bathroom products with an excellent reputation with a turnover in excess of 90m. Whilst we are leaders in the bathroom furniture market, we have a share of around 7% of the total UK bathroom market. We have over 240 employees based across our Bath office & Bristol warehouse sites.

We are part of the Svedbergs Group of bathroom companies, headquartered in Sweden: www.svedbergsgroup.com.

Our customers include major national retailers, national / regional builder's merchants, and a nationwide network of independent bathroom retailers. In addition to this we also produce bathroom products for several retailers under their own label programmes.

We are highly focused on product development as a key part of our business. Our products are manufactured to our own designs and manufactured to a high quality with supply partners all over the world.

We have a portfolio of three in-house brands as follows:

Roper Rhodes

www.roperrhodes.co.uk

Tavistock

www.tavistock-bathrooms.co.uk

R2

www.r2bathrooms.co.uk/

The Team:

The Assistant Compliance Manager role is based within the wider Product Development team. The Product Development department structure is as follows:

Product Development Team Structure:

Product Director 2 x Heads of Category 4 x Category Managers (Product Development Managers) 1 x Senior Product Designer 1 x Technical Manager 3 x Product Designers 2 x Product Design Assistants 2 x Product Assistants 1 x Product Design Intern 3 x QC Engineers (based overseas)

Salary & Other Benefits:

Whilst this is going to be dependent upon the candidate's experience and skills, the salary guide is circa 32k to 37k p.a. and provides a great opportunity to further your career in a forward-thinking company.

In addition to this, we have a company profit related bonus scheme, as well as a Life Assurance scheme and attractive Pension arrangements. Roper Rhodes contributes 7% of your salary into the pension scheme with a compulsory 1% contribution from you, giving a total contribution of 8%. You are encouraged to increase your own contribution to this pension scheme from your earnings and by way of an incentive the company will match any additional percentage up to and including 2%. This would give you a potential contribution of 12% of salary at a cost of only 3% to you.

Holiday allowance starts at 25 days in the first year (pro rata) plus bank holidays. After 3 years' service, entitlement will raise to 26 days and a further additional day is awarded after 5 years' service taking entitlement to 27 days (plus bank holidays).

Other benefits include:

Training & Development opportunities. Employee Assistance Program (We Care) for use by all employees and their immediate families. Toothfairy Online Dental Assistance Program. Gym Membership Scheme. Holiday Purchase Scheme. Cycle Purchase Scheme. Tech Purchase Scheme. Discounted Electric Car charging. Discounted Staff Product Purchases. Free parking. Casual Dress Code.
Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 32,000.00-37,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Additional leave Company events Company pension Cycle to work scheme Employee discount Free parking Health & wellbeing programme Life insurance On-site parking Paid volunteer time Referral programme Sick pay
Work Location: In person