Senior Corporate Affairs Executive

The Role

Step into a role where your work truly shapes responsible business practices in a highly regulated industry. As a Senior Corporate Affairs Executive, you’ll be at the heart of ensuring compliance with Romanian and EU regulatory frameworks, helping the organization navigate a fast‑evolving landscape with clarity and confidence. Working closely with the SEE Cluster CLA team and trusted external partners, you’ll contribute to regulatory monitoring, support cross‑functional processes, and play a key part in maintaining high standards across both traditional tobacco and New Generation Products.

If you’re comfortable with legal and regulatory topics and eager to grow in a position with real impact within an inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees, this role is perfect for you.

Principle Accountabilities

• Regulatory Support: Assist with regulatory activities in Romania and ensure alignment with EU and local legislation.
• Monitoring & Analysis: Track regulatory changes in the tobacco and NGP sectors and escalate relevant updates to the SEE Cluster CLA team and external advisors.
• Documentation & Assessments: Prepare impact assessments, internal briefings, and materials for regulatory submissions and government consultations.
• Compliance & Awareness: Support compliance programs, coordinate audits, and share regulatory updates to strengthen internal awareness, including contributing to corporate communication and PR activities.
• Cross‑Functional Guidance: Provide operational support to Marketing, Trade, and Sales to ensure commercial activities meet regulatory requirements.
• External Collaboration & Stakeholder Relations: Coordinate with consultants, agencies, and law firms, and help maintain constructive relationships with authorities, industry associations, and other stakeholders.

Skills and Experience Required

• Strong competence and comfort with legal and regulatory topics.

• Experience in regulatory affairs, corporate affairs, compliance, or similar roles within regulated industries (internships or junior roles acceptable). 

• Basic understanding of Romanian and EU regulatory frameworks and policy processes. 

• Ability to interpret legislation and translate it into clear internal guidance, with support from legal advisors. 

• Strong organizational and coordination skills. 

• Good communication and interpersonal skills. 

• Proactive, detail‑oriented, and able to manage multiple tasks with supervision. 

• Fluency in English and Romanian (written and spoken). 

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

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