Product Stewardship Specialist

Product Stewardship Specialist

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 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 Kimberly-Clark 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 Kimberly-Clark business community to enable and meet product development milestones and ensure our 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 standard.

This position is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil.


* 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 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 Kimberly-Clark 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 criterio...