Product Stewardship Specialist - IFP LATAM​

Product Stewardship Specialist - IFP LATAM​

Job Description

Position Description:

The Product Stewardship Specialist represents the Global Product Safety, Stewardship, and Medical Affairs teams and works closely with cross-functional partners in product development, quality and regulatory affairs, to coordinate the development and execution of plans and deliverables within necessary timelines to ensure that all new and existing products meet or exceed both K-C requirements and regulatory/legal requirements.

The incumbent Product Stewardship Specialist is responsible for maintaining enterprise product stewardship programs to optimize business value by direction and guidance to the K-C business community to enable and meet product development milestones and ensure K-C products are safe for their intended use, support product registration/reporting as applicable, and comply with all applicable governmental safety and compliance rules, regulations, corporate standards, and consumer expectations through all phases of development, commercialization and post-market life cycle management.

Additional key responsibilities include the coordination of quality management system activities in support of product safety and compliance, database management of product bill of materials, evaluation of data integrity and completeness, identification, development, and implementation of strategies to address data gaps, and completion of the technical assessment of products for chemical compliance to support the safety assessment, stewardship, reporting and compliance of K-C products.

This position is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Principal Responsibilities:


* Represent the Product Safety, Stewardship and Medical Affairs teams with cross-functional partners to plan, manage, prioritize, and execute deliverables ensuring that all new and existing products meet or exceed both K-C requirements and safety/regulatory/legal requirements within necessary timelines.



* Perform technical activities in support material and product compliance, safety to human health, claims substantiation and stewardship programs through all phases of development, commercialization, and post-market life cycle management.

Identify and escalate as appropriate technical or chemical compliance issues or material changes that may impact K-C products or business sectors.  



* Contribute to the regulatory and chemical reporting, chemical management, and material aspects of emerging programs in product lifecycle assessments, sustainability and customer reporting, environmental product declarations, transparency and end producer responsibility programs in order meet regulatory obligations and product compliance determinations.



* Conduct product and substance hazard classification, author and provide for hazard communication based on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) and local country requirements.

As needed, coordinate produ...