Temporary or Permanent Placements
Temporary and Permanent Regulatory Compliance Placements
Embedded regulatory professionals for a project, a season, or an ongoing role. ORBIS placements bring certification experience, direct regulator access, and the ORBIS Intelligent Compliance platform into your team.
The idea
One experienced professional in your team. The whole of ORBIS behind them.
What a placement is
A regulatory professional who works as part of your team, on your products, in your markets.
An ORBIS placement is a regulatory affairs professional, certification engineer, or compliance coordinator embedded in your organization. They take a defined scope: managing certifications for a product family, running compliance for a region, carrying a portfolio through a regulatory change, or covering a role while you recruit or while a team member is away. They attend your meetings, work to your priorities, and report to your management, for the period you need.
What distinguishes an ORBIS placement from a contractor is what stands behind them. They work in ORBIS Intelligent Compliance, so your product records, project status, and regulatory intelligence are in place from the first week rather than rebuilt in a spreadsheet. When they hit a question that needs a regulator's reading, a specialist's judgment, or a certification filed in a market they don't know, the rest of the ORBIS legal and engineering team is a request away. And when the placement ends, the work stays with you in the shared record.
Placements can be temporary, covering a project, a launch, or a leave, or permanent, as an ongoing embedded arrangement that gives you a senior compliance capability without building the department.
Roles we place
Matched to the work in front of you
Regulatory affairs manager
Owns the regulatory path for a product line or region: applicability, certification strategy, regulator engagement, and management reporting.
Certification engineer
Scopes and manages test programs, reviews reports, controls configurations and critical components, and works with laboratories and certification bodies.
Compliance coordinator
Keeps projects, samples, documents, renewals, and registrations moving across markets, and keeps the product record current.
Environmental compliance specialist
Runs producer responsibility, substance, and environmental labeling obligations across your markets and schemes.
Market entry lead
Carries a portfolio into new countries: approvals, local representation, labeling, customs, and channel readiness, end to end.
Interim head of compliance
Senior leadership of the function during a transition, a build-out, or a search, with a mandate to leave the program stronger than they found it.
How a placement starts
From scope to first week
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Define the scope
Products, markets, responsibilities, reporting line, duration, and the outcomes you need. We push for clarity here because it decides everything after.
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Match the person
An ORBIS professional whose experience fits the products and markets, introduced to your team before they start.
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Set up the workspace
Your product records, certificates, and projects are established in ORBIS Intelligent Compliance so the placement starts with a working picture, not a discovery phase.
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Work and report
The placement works to your priorities with ORBIS support behind them. Progress is visible to you in the platform and in whatever management reporting you need.
When it ends
Temporary placements should leave your team stronger, not dependent.
A good temporary placement does the work and leaves the organization better able to carry it. That means documented product records, a clear certification status for every product and market, tracked renewals, and a handover your permanent team can actually use. Because ORBIS placements work in ORBIS Intelligent Compliance, the handover is largely already done: the record is the handover.
Many clients continue after a placement with a lighter-touch relationship, such as ongoing compliance monitoring or access to our consulting practice for the questions their team can't close. Others convert a temporary placement to a permanent one when the workload proves durable. The shape is yours to choose.
Questions
Placements
Can a placement work on site?
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Depending on location and the role, yes. Many placements work remotely with periodic on-site time, which suits multinational teams spread across regions. We agree the working arrangement as part of the scope.
What happens if the placement isn't the right fit?
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We replace them. The relationship is with ORBIS, not with one individual, and the work is in the shared record, so a change of person doesn't mean starting over.
How is this priced compared to hiring?
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It depends on the role, seniority, and duration. The comparison isn't only salary: it includes recruiting time, ramp-up, tools, and the cost of the work not being done while a role is open. We'll give you a clear proposal for the scope you describe.
The right person, with the right team behind them.
Describe the role or the gap: the products, the markets, the duration, and what success looks like. We'll propose a placement and the ORBIS support that comes with it.
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