Head of Corporate Regulatory Affairs
Nestlé Middle East
Total years of experience :26 years, 11 Months
• Manage Middle East, North Africa and Turkey Regulatory & Scientific Affairs cluster
• Develop Middle East, North Africa and Turkey cluster strategy
• Built a distinctive relation with key opinion leaders in authorities, regulatory bodies, NGO’s in order to defend the company’s interests and applies recommendations in a proactive manner.
• Monitoring the regional regulatory environment and play an active role in shaping new trends.
• Mapping, managing primary and secondary stockholders to achieve strategic objectives.
• Represent Nestlé and lead discussion with cluster’s governmental authorities, NGO’s.
• Ensure that the team contributes at the right level in associations and in engagement with authorities at regional level with KPI like: Local Influencing Topic portfolio, Number of Influencing success stories.
• Investigate about new business development opportunities and present it to the management committee.
• Work in close collaboration with global legal, application groups, supply chain, nutritionists, and marketing team.
• Aligned regional strategy with the Nestlé regulatory and scientific affairs global strategy.
• Built a distinctive relation with key opinion leaders in authorities, regulatory bodies, NGO’s in order to defend the company’s interests and applies recommendations in a proactive manner.
• Monitoring the regional regulatory environment and play an active role in shaping new trends.
• Mapping, managing primary and secondary stockholders to achieve strategic objectives.
• Represent Nestlé and lead discussion with regional governmental authorities, NGO’s.
• Ensure that the team contributes at the right level in associations and in engagement with authorities at regional level with KPI like: Local Influencing Topic portfolio, Number of Influencing success stories.
• Built and managed a very productive and proactive regulatory support unit.
• Handle the registration, follow up with the suppliers and deliver the necessary documentation to the concerned authorities in Middle East region.
• Handle crisis issues with the concerned authorities across Middle East in a proper way to save the company’s reputation.
• Investigate about new business development opportunities and present it to the management committee.
• Team member of a corporate social responsibility project, plan to be rollout in Middle East on 2013.
• Work in close collaboration with legal, application groups, supply chain, nutritionists, and marketing team.
• Aligned local strategy with the Nestlé regulatory and scientific affairs global strategy.
• Built and managed a very productive and proactive regulatory affairs department.
• Assure the compliance (recipes, labels and media materials) of all locally manufactured and imported products with the regulations applied in Saudi for the actual and new products.
• Handle the registration, follow up with the suppliers and deliver the necessary documentation to the concerned authorities in Saudi.
• Ensure that the team contributes at the right level in associations and in engagement with authorities at national level with KPI like: Local Influencing Topic portfolio, Number of Influencing success stories.
• Monitoring the regulatory environment and play an active role in shaping new trends.
• Mapping, managing primary and secondary stockholders to achieve strategic objectives.
• Built a distinctive relation with key opinion leaders in authorities, regulatory bodies, NGO’s in order to defend the company’s interests and applies recommendations in a proactive manner.
• Handle crisis issues with the concerned authorities in a proper way to save the company’s reputation.
• Investigate about new business development opportunities and present it to the management committee.
• Advised on local situations based on my deep knowledge about Saudi Arabia’s political and cultural environment.
• More than 12 years experience in dealing with various authorities (MOH, MOCI, SFDA, SASO, Municipalities, Customs)
• Team member of a corporate social responsibility project, plan to be rollout in Saudi Arabia on 2012.
• Represent Nestlé and lead discussion with Governmental authorities, NGO’s.
• Work in close collaboration with quality department, application groups, supply chain, nutritionists, and marketing team.
Keep track of the legislation in all the regions in which the company wishes to distribute its products.
Advise on the legal and scientific restraints and requirements.
Collect, collate, evaluate scientific data and present registration documents (dossiers) to regulatory agencies.
Carry out all the subsequent negotiations necessary to obtain and maintain marketing authorizations for the products concerned.
Ensure that the product information submitted to the authorities is as complete as possible and in the correct form.
Responsible for subsequent contacts with the regulatory authorities.
Help the company avoid deficiencies in their data which may create difficulties in the registration of the product.
Take part in the development of the product marketing concepts and is usually required to approve packaging and advertising before it is used commercially.
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