Product Safety Leader - Latin America

Product Safety Leader - Latin America

Job Description

Position Purpose:

The incumbent Product Safety Leader – Latin America, provides vision, leadership, direction and management for product safety, clinical support and health risk assessment programs used across the organization.

This Safety Leader ensures K-C products are safe for their intended use, comply with all applicable governmental safety rules, regulations, corporate standards, and consumer expectations.

The incumbent is responsible for the management, professional development and technical leadership of a regional toxicology, risk assessment, biomedical and chemical management professionals supporting Kimberly-Clark’s consumer and professional product portfolio.

This position is located in São Paulo, Brazil.

In addition to management, corporate strategy and business support responsibilities, the incumbent will be personally responsible for delivering expert hazard identification, exposure characterization, safety assessment and product safety testing guidance to project teams and senior management to enable new product development, meet post-market surveillance requirements, and promote product stewardship in support of Kimberly-Clark’s business sectors.

He/she will assist Product Safety Senior Leadership as member of the departmental leadership team to develop and implement strategies and assess group performance to meet technical and business plan requirements across the Enterprise. 

The successful candidate is recognized as a Key Opinion Leader in the field of toxicology, safety and risk assessment, and will also identify and work with external Key Opinion Leaders, relevant trade associations and professional societies in all areas of product safety and keep abreast of global regulatory compliance and market trends that may impact this area.

Principal Responsibilities:


* Independently conduct and communicate human health safety risk assessments on a broad range of products, including the substantiation of safety-related claims and taking into consideration identified hazards and exposure according to the intended product use.

This includes assessment of scientific literature, evaluation of the toxicological database, determination of appropriate toxicological and other safety endpoints, design hazard analysis, failure mode analysis, exposure assessments, clinical evaluation, and written documentation.  



* Lead a team of professionals to execute Kimberly-Clark’s safety management program for a broad range of product categories to ensure finished products are evaluated following state-of-the-art safety assessment practices, design hazard analysis, risk methodologies, and regulatory safety requirements to deliver products that are safe for consumers and compliant in the countries of sale.



* Anticipate, monitor, and influence changing safety standards and scientific data relevant to all products marketed by Kimberly-Clark.

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