🛡️ Food Safety Subject Matter Expert | Amazon Hiring
🏢 Company: ADCI - Karnataka - A66
Amazon is hiring a Food Safety Subject Matter Expert for its Global Solutions and Risk Compliance (GSRC) organization in Bengaluru. The role focuses on regulatory compliance, product safety, technical risk assessment, regulatory implementation, and ensuring products meet applicable requirements across global marketplaces.
Regulatory Compliance & Product Safety
📌 Job Description
Amazon's Global Solutions and Risk Compliance (GSRC) organization works to protect customers, partners, and associates while ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements across global marketplaces.
The team supports Amazon Private Brand product compliance by ensuring products are tested in certified laboratories, meet the requirements of their target markets, and undergo post-launch compliance audits.
As a Food Safety Subject Matter Expert, you will analyse regulatory requirements, assess the business impact of new regulations, implement compliance policies, and support escalations and compliance-related crises. The role requires strong regulatory knowledge, analytical skills, stakeholder communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
🔑 Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a subject matter expert in food product compliance regulations across worldwide marketplaces.
- Analyse regulatory requirements and assess the business impact of new regulations across regions.
- Evaluate product category applicability and technical compliance requirements.
- Implement new regulations and policies according to established change management processes and operational protocols.
- Act as a backline resource for compliance crises and escalations.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes from technical and regulatory risk perspectives.
- Communicate regulatory requirements accurately to vendors and stakeholders.
- Provide timely and accurate compliance support.
- Support product safety, regulatory classification, and compliance processes for global marketplaces.
- Contribute to compliance initiatives that protect customers and support legal and regulatory obligations.
🎓 Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- Minimum 2 years of experience as a Subject Matter Expert in Food Safety or an equivalent domain.
- Ability to serve as a subject matter expert in food product compliance regulations across worldwide marketplaces.
- Ability to assess regulatory requirements, regional business impacts, product category applicability, and technical compliance needs.
- Ability to implement regulatory changes through established change management processes and operational protocols.
- Ability to handle compliance escalations and support crisis management.
- Ability to identify technical improvement opportunities and regulatory risks.
- Strong communication skills for precise and timely coordination with vendors and stakeholders.
📚 Regulatory & Technical Knowledge Mentioned in the Posting
The job description also specifies the following regulatory and technical expertise. Candidates should review the official listing carefully to confirm the role's full domain requirements.
- EU and North American regulatory frameworks.
- Product categories including hardline consumer goods, electrical appliances, furniture, toys, and food-contact materials.
- FDA requirements for dietary supplements, including 21 CFR Part 111 (cGMP).
- FDA requirements for OTC drug products, including 21 CFR Parts 210 and 211.
- Cosmetics and bodycare regulations, including MoCRA and the 21 CFR Part 700 series.
- Third-party certification programs such as GRMA, NSF, USP, UL, and NPA for dietary supplements, and ISO 22716 for cosmetics.
- FDA warning letters, import alerts, and enforcement actions related to dietary supplements, OTC drugs, and cosmetics/bodycare.
- Product labelling requirements under DSHEA, the OTC drug monograph system, and FDA cosmetic labelling regulations.
- Supplier and facility audits and GMP compliance reviews.
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing qualification principles, including Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ), and Performance Qualification (PQ).
- Process validation lifecycle: Process Design, Process Qualification, and Continued Process Verification.
⭐ Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with natural and organic foods.
- Experience with perishable products, including produce, meat, and seafood.
- Sensory evaluation experience and skills.
- Experience working with product specification databases.
- Experience conducting or managing production facility audits.
👥 About Global Solutions and Risk Compliance (GSRC)
GSRC is part of Amazon's Operational Risk Compliance organization. It supports product compliance by analysing import documentation, identifying potential hazards, classifying products, and ensuring product listings follow applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
The global organization works with teams across India, China, Poland, Romania, the Netherlands, Jordan, the Philippines, and Costa Rica. Its work supports regulatory programs involving dangerous goods, chemical safety, global trade services, transport risk compliance, sustainability, extended producer responsibility, and food safety.
🚀 Why Consider This Opportunity?
- Work on product safety and regulatory compliance in a global organization.
- Apply technical expertise to regulatory analysis and risk assessment.
- Collaborate with vendors and stakeholders across multiple markets.
- Contribute to compliance policy implementation and continuous improvement.
- Support initiatives that protect customers and help maintain product compliance.
🛠️ Key Skills Required
- Food Safety and Regulatory Compliance
- Subject Matter Expertise
- Regulatory Interpretation and Implementation
- Product Safety and Quality Compliance
- Risk Assessment and Escalation Management
- FDA and International Regulatory Knowledge
- GMP and Supplier Audit Awareness
- Change Management
- Vendor and Stakeholder Communication
- Planning and Organizational Skills
- Deadline and Priority Management
- Written and Verbal English Communication
📝 Interview Preparation Tips
- Prepare examples of applying food safety or product compliance regulations in a professional setting.
- Review relevant regulatory frameworks and explain how regulatory changes affect product compliance.
- Prepare examples of managing escalations, regulatory risks, or compliance incidents.
- Be ready to explain how you communicate requirements to vendors and internal stakeholders.
- Review supplier audits, facility audits, and GMP compliance principles where relevant to your experience.
- Prepare examples of managing multiple priorities and meeting concurrent deadlines.
- Review the detailed regulatory requirements in the official job listing, particularly where they relate to your expertise.
📩 How to Apply
Interested and eligible candidates can review the official Amazon careers listing and submit their application online using the link below.
📍 Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
🆔 Job ID: 10515288
🏭 Department: Fulfillment & Operations Management