Pentland Brands
Product Compliance Manager
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About Pentland Brands
We’re Pentland Brands: a global family business behind some of the world’s most iconic active and lifestyle brands. We bring integrity, energy, and ambition to our work, setting high standards and striving to deliver great outcomes without ego.
About the Role
This is the hands-on delivery seat for product compliance across the UK, EU, and every market outside the Americas. Where the Head sets the standard, you're the person making sure products actually meet it: market access, safety, chemicals, labelling, and testing done right, ESPR and Digital Product Passport delivered on time, and recalls handled fast and well when they happen.
What you’ll be doing
- Own market access, safety, chemicals, labelling, and testing protocols for UK, EU, and other non-Americas markets.
- Lead delivery of the ESPR and Digital Product Passport programmes for your markets, working to the standard the Head of Product Compliance & Stewardship sets.
- Own recall execution: coordinating the response, working with Legal and brand teams, and closing out regulator engagement.
- Apply chemical compliance requirements (REACH, PFAS, POPs, Proposition 65, the Restricted Substances List) to real product and testing decisions, not just policy documents.
- Feed readiness status and risk into the Head's reporting to the Product Regulatory Compliance Committee.
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What you’ll bring
- Solid experience in product compliance, product safety, or regulatory affairs, ideally in apparel, footwear, or another consumer goods category.
- Deep working knowledge of UK and EU product regulation: REACH, chemical restrictions, labelling, and market-specific information requirements.
- Direct experience with ESPR, the Digital Product Passport, or comparable emerging regulation, or a fast ability to get up to speed.
- A genuinely hands-on approach: comfortable working a compliance issue through with a supplier or a brand team, not just reporting on it.
- Calm, organized recall experience: knowing how to move fast without losing the paper trail.
Why Pentland Brands?
Pentland Brands is the name behind some of the world’s best-known sport, outdoor, and lifestyle brands, including Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury, Endura, Ellesse, Kickers, and Mitre.
We are a global family business with a clear purpose: pioneering brands that make life better. Across our teams, functions, and locations, we work together to create products, experiences, and partnerships that help people live more active, confident, and positive lives.
Joining Pentland Brands means becoming part of a business where your work can have real reach, across multiple brands, markets, teams, and disciplines. It is a place for people who want to contribute, collaborate, improve how things are done, and help build the future of brands with heritage, ambition, and global impact.
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Perks & Benefits
We offer a competitive salary, discretionary bonus, hybrid working, flexible start and finish times, generous holiday allowance, product discounts, sample sales, enhanced family-friendly policies, healthcare support, gym and fitness discounts, cycle to work scheme, and electric car scheme.
You can find full details of our benefits and perks on our UK Benefits page.
The Interview Process
We want our interview process to feel clear, straightforward, and supportive. If your experience and expectations look like a strong match for the role, here’s what you can expect next:
- Talent Team Intro Call - A 30-minute video call with our Talent Team to get to know each other, talk through the role and your experience, and answer any questions you have.
- Experience Interview - A more in-depth interview (usually online) with the hiring manager to explore your skills, experience, and approach, and how these align with the role, our principles, and our ways of working.
- Final Interview - A final in-person interview at our office, focused on deeper discussion and practical application, giving you the chance to meet more of the team and see Pentland Brands in action.
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