Product Stewardship and Chemical Compliance Specialist

Product Stewardship and Chemical Compliance Specialist

Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

In this role, you will:


* 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.


* Provide technical guidance and oversight of personnel responsible for the creation and maintenance of product and material data in SAP EHS, technical assessments of ingredient and product conformance to chemical regulations and requirements, generation of ingredient lists and hazard communication requirements and support of conformance to dangerous goods transport regulations, including authoring safety data sheets and generation of hazard warning labels relevant to K-C products.


* Coach, mentor, and develop staff, including providing training to new K-C contract employees in the data acquisition process and SAPEHS record building process.


* Maintain consistent business support through managing assignments, job rotation, training, vacations, and other scheduling.


* Ensuring integrity and compliance of data in Product Safety databases obtained in data acquisition process and providing appropriate documentation to authorities related to notification and/or registration of K-C products.


* 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.  


* 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 product compliance testing to obtain necessary data for hazard classification, determination of compliance criterion, or registration or notification programs.  


* Coordinate with business sectors to ensure ongoing compliance through change management, new product development and market expansion.  Ensure data entered into SAP EHS for products and their materials is maintained with high quality standards in accordance with data model...