Position Title:  Manager Regulatory Affairs

Be part of a revolutionary change

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose; we are redefining the tobacco industry and leading the charge towards a smoke-free future. With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, if you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions. Our success depends on people who are committed to our purpose and have an appetite for progress.

As the Manager Regulatory Affairs, you will be responsible for shaping a balanced regulatory and fiscal framework for our smoke-free products (SFPs) to allow their commercialization while maintaining a conducive regulatory environment for conventional cigarettes to meet business objectives.You will be influencing the regulatory and fiscal framework for SFPs, as well as relevant regulators & decision makers, and ensure that proposed legislations (both at the national and local level), rules and regulations, and other government issuances are reasonable to allow for the commercialization of SFPs in the country.

You will be responsible for:

• Managing the day-to-day engagements and execution of strategies with government officials from the executive and legislative branches of government and ensure there is awareness on the science behind SFPs among regulators and decision makers in order to establish a reasonable regulatory and fiscal framework to attain business objectives.

• Identifying, develoing, and engaging government stakeholders who are interested to become advocates on the potential population benefit of SFPs in order to attain business objective

• Developing engagement tools and materials that may be useful for government stakeholders including position papers, research studies and briefing material

• Providing regular updates and relevant data to PMFTC organization, regional operating headquarters and the operations center on the latest developments on the regulatory and fiscal framework for SFPs as well as the conventional cigarette business
  
  

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• At least 10 years of meaningful experience working as a corporate lawyer or doing government relations work, ideally gained in the consumer products, electronic devices, or tobacco industries
• Experience in lobbying with government stakeholders is an advantage
• An established network across different government and non-government agencies
• Experience working in the filed with minimal supervision
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively manage both internal and external stakeholder
  
  

Why Join Us?

At PMI, we prioritize equal employment opportunity, inclusion, and workplace diversity. Our aim is to foster an environment that allows our global employees to be authentic, excel, collaborate, and inspire the innovation and consumer-centricity essential to realize our smoke-free future vision. To support this, we offer our people above-market Compensation & Benefits packages

• Guaranteed 14th month pay
• HMO coverage for you and your qualified dependents
• PhP 10,000 annual medical reimbursement
• Annual performance-based variable pay
• Annual performance-based merit increase
• Retirement plan
• Leaves conversion

At our company, we prioritize understanding individual circumstances, appreciating differences, and treating everyone with fairness and respect. We strive for an inclusive environment where every voice is valued, irrespective of gender identity, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other distinguishing feature. Our workforce management practices have been globally acknowledged by the Top Employer Institute and the Equal Salary Foundation.