Product Integrity Compliance Lead – Franchise Markets

Product Integrity Compliance Lead - Franchise Markets

Play a pivotal role in shaping global market entry by ensuring products meet the highest standards of safety, compliance, and integrity. As the PIC Lead, youll drive cross-functional partnerships that protect brand trust while enabling international growth.

This is a 1-year contract to start with chance for extension should business needs align.

Who – The Company:

Our client is a Vancouver company with global operations and an impeccable reputation. They are a people-centric organization, known for their collaborative team culture.

What- The Role:

The Product Integrity Compliance (PIC) Lead – Franchise Markets is accountable for designing and executing global compliance strategies across product labeling, claims, and safety to support franchise market operations. This role ensures regulatory readiness for new market entries by aligning compliance initiatives with global business objectives and proactively mitigating financial, legal, and reputational risks. As a strategic partner, the PIC Lead drives cross-functional collaboration to interpret and implement regulatory standards, supports franchise integration, and serves as the primary liaison between internal teams and franchisee partners. By establishing robust compliance frameworks and managing product integrity incidents, this role plays a critical part in enabling global expansion and protecting brand trust.

• Build processes to assess product and packaging compliance requirements for franchise markets, ensuring regulatory readiness for new market entries, and owning the governance of the processes and documentation.
• Review and interpret regulatory standards in collaboration with internal and external Legal partners to support franchise market compliance.
• Communicate compliance requirements to cross-functional teams and lead the implementation of new standards in partnership with key internal stakeholders.
• Support franchise integration by contributing to contract reviews and guiding the development of the Franchise Operating Manual related to product and packaging standards.
• Act as the primary liaison between Product Integrity, internal teams, and franchisee compliance partners, managing inquiries and ensuring product compliance for market readiness.
• Coordinate with Market Product Integrity teams on product integrity incidents, including investigations and recalls triggered by franchise market regulators.

Who- the Candidate:

• Bachelors degree in compliance, law, business, textiles or related field.
• 5-8 years of work experience in quality, product safety, compliance, or regulatory/legal function.
• Experience in the apparel/textile sector is an asset.
• Ability to organize, set priorities, and manage multiple tasks on tight deadlines; escalate issues as needed and support leadership with strategic decision-making.
• Ability to work well as a member on cross-functional teams and hold peers and partners accountable.

How much:

$36-37/hr + + 4% vacation pay.

Where:

Vancouver, Hybrid 4 days onsite.

When & How To Apply:

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