Senior Toxicologist - 12 month contract

Senior Toxicologist - 12 month contract

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.

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. 

In this role, you will:


* 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 her or himself 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 techn...