Senior Toxicologist

Senior Toxicologist

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:

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

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.

• 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, and biocompatibility conducted under Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), and when applicable, clinical studies conducted under Good Clinical Practices (GCP).

• Contribute to and effectively communicate product safety guidance and regulatory safety compliance information, safety point-of-view papers and health risk assessments to internal or external technical experts as well as functional and business unit leaders and management. Represent K-C’s key business interests on trade association task forces.

• Effectively support life cycle management through collaboration with cross-functional teams to review and respond to safety post-market surveillance data with documented assessments, risk-benefit analysis, and risk management activities.

• Conduct themself in accordance with Kimberly-Clark leadership behaviors and corporate policies and procedures with an expectation to maintain and enhance their technical, professional, leadership and communication skills through professional development and participation in scientific conferences and meetings, publication of appropriate work in peer-reviewed journals and other aspects of technical and leadership development.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve