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 Product Stewardship Specialist represents the Global Product Safety, Stewardship, and Medical Affairs team 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 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 Product Stewardship Specialist optimizes business through product stewardship partnership with the Kimberly-Clark business community to enable Product Safety, Stewardship, and Medical Affairs milestones and expectations. This is a one-year fixed-term position, hybrid and located in São 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.
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 models developed to support product safety, stewardship, and chemical regulation compliance. Support accurate product safety record documentation in SAP EHS database and manage chemical and ingredient regulatory compliance data and SAP reporting activities.
Prepare chemical reporting data, ingredient listings and technical chemical compliance assessments for sustainability reporting, customer requirements and Regulatory Affairs in order meet regulatory obligations and product compliance determinations.
Coordinate the development and execution of plans and deliverables ensuring that all new and existing products meet or exceed both our requirements and regulatory/legal requirements to manage the Business Units compliance strategy.
Perform technical activities in support material and product compliance, safety to human health, 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 our products or business sectors.
Manage regulatory changes via regulatory intelligence tools with respect to existing regulations that may impact existing product lines and benefit new product introduction.
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 product compliance testing to obtain necessary data for hazard classification, determination of compliance criterion, or registration or notification programs.
Evaluate and appropriately process incoming requests for stewardship information by applying technical knowledge of our products, regulations and stewardship landscape.
Capable to develop and serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in key areas of need, including regulatory compliance, toxicology and safety assessment, project management or systems development and maintenance.
To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications for this one-year fixed-term position.
Degree in biology, chemistry, toxicology, pharmacology, biomedical or a related technical field of study with prior 3+ years of relevant experience.
Demonstrated proficiency in working within database environments and management of ingredient and raw material chemical information. Proficient using Microsoft programs (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.).
Strong project management skills and ability to independently prioritize work activities.
Knowledge of stewardship principles relevant to consumer product companies, chemical national inventories, chemical regulations, sustainability reporting approaches and product chemical and ingredient safety regulations globally.
Experience organizing large sets of chemical safety and regulatory data, research/product safety testing report information and the analysis of these data into SAP EHS or similar databases.
Knowledge of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) standard for the generation of Safety Data Sheets.
Ability to travel up to 10% (domestic and international).
Led by Purpose. Driven by You.
Total Benefits
We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.
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And finally, the fine print….
For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world, which is why we seek to build a workforce that encompasses the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.
Employment is subject to verification of local policies.
This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.
Kimberly-Clark will not provide support for relocation of the chosen candidate for this role, if necessary, relocation will be at the candidate’s own expense. However, Kimberly-Clark will provide assistance and financial support to obtain immigration visas and work authorization for the chosen candidate, if needed.
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