Government Affairs Director

About Lubrizol  
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.   

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as Government Affairs Director

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the Chemical industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

What You'll Do:

As a Government Affairs Director, you will develop and lead Lubrizol’s strategy to successfully engage with relevant government authorities and officials at all levels – central, state, and local - to protect, grow and transform Lubrizol’s business as well as meet objectives in the region. Serve as a key external representative of and advocate for policy priorities and objectives with key government policy stakeholders.

What We're Looking For:

• Actively support and lead Lubrizol corporate and business government affairs objectives with the LATAM government.
• Build and manage engagements with policy makers, decision makers, trade associations and consultants to ensure implementation of Lubrizol’s legislative, regulatory and political priorities.
• Engage senior management to develop and drive Lubrizol’s objectives and initiatives involving government affairs and policy, including identification of issues that may benefit from legislative or regulatory action.
• Serve as a positive, credible, and influential presence for Lubrizol with key trade associations, as well as national public policy and legislative groups and other relevant stakeholder organizations.
• Support the formation and maintaining of issue coalitions and drive policy change.
• Identify and lead engagements that leverages and expands Lubrizol’s expertise, knowledge and potential to protect, grow and transform Lubrizol’s participation in strategically significant markets (including transportation and industrial lubricants and additives, durable polymer technology, medical device, pharma, personal and home care).
• Build knowledge and understanding of policy parameters and political factors influencing Lubrizol’s government relations objectives and ensure ongoing awareness and support for legislative activities with Lubrizol business leaders.     
• Monitor, track, and evaluate proposed relevant rule-making and legislation, provide analysis of proposed legislative/regulatory actions, determine the potential impact on Lubrizol and its businesses and propose appropriate response.

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Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together! 

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities. 

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.