Senior Toxicologist

Senior Toxicologist

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®.

At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

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. 

About You

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

The incumbent Senior Toxicologist safety professional guides clinical substantiation and conducts human health safety assessments of consumer, cosmetic, personal care, and professional products in the Central and South America regions.

The incumbent will conduct product safety and health risk assessments, ensuring compliance to safety standards and regulations, and collaborate on stewardship initiatives on a range products and components through all phases of development, commercialization and post-market surveillance.

This position is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Responsibilities include providing expert guidance on safe design to product development teams, development of safety testing strategies, human health risk assessment, and product safety guidance to enable and meet new product development milestones and ensure K-C products are safe for their intended use, support product registration as applicable, and comply with all applicable governmental safety rules, regulations, corporate standards and consumer expectations.

The incumbent will represent Product Safety and work closely with cross-functional partners in product development, clinical, medical affairs, legal, quality and regulatory affairs as well as external groups including subsidiaries, trade associations and governmental agencies to ensure product safety. 

It starts with YOU.



* 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. 


*  Manage the design, monitoring and interpretation of chemical characterization analyses, in vitro and in vivo toxicology, safety testing, ...