Senior Toxicologist

Senior Toxicologist

Givaudan

Argenteuil, France

Main Responsibilities

Product Safety Assurance

• Provide excellence in human health safety that demonstrate the safe use of our ingredients and products to customers and regulators;
• Perform safety assessment of fragrances and cosmetic ingredients;
• Provide scientific and toxicological support for customers, communicate on safety topics and participate on customer meetings ensuring close collaboration;
• Ensure all products comply with customer safety guidelines, government regulations and trade association safety requirements;
• Define safety testing strategy in compliance with REACH and TSCA requirements;
• Work with multiple CROs on study monitoring and report;
• Follow and help maintain process for safety review of new actives and substances developed by research and development;
• Manage efforts in obtaining relevant toxicology or regulatory data needed to support the registrations application and being the liaison between assigned S&T project teams and product safety;
• Participate to trade association meetings and advise Givaudan management on new issues relevant to regulatory policy and issues helping regulatory and safety;
• Be part of Human Health team with interdependencies between functions (Regulatory, Registration, S&T, Formula Management);
• Maintain process for safety review of new and existing fragrances, Oral Care or any new Givaudan technologies;
• Provide internal and external industry guidance to maintain current safety evaluation processes based on developing regulations;
• Ensure all all products comply with customer safety guidelines, government regulations and trade association safety requirements.

Regulatory Policy

• Provide Givaudan management guidance on complex regulatory, safety or product compliance issues;
• Interpret scientific and technical data impacting Givaudan's Global Regulatory Toxicology group;
• Provide leadership for Givaudan's regulatory and scientific advocacy programs to support our projects;
• Represent Givaudan on Industry safety committees.

Product Documentation and Registration

• Lead efforts in obtaining relevant toxicology or regulatory data needed to support the registrations application and acting as the liaison between assigned R&D project teams and Product safety.

You?

• MS Degree/Ph. D in scientific field (toxicology, biochemistry, chemistry or related areas);
• More than 6 years of relevant industry experience in product safety or relevant scientific area or regulatory affairs;
• Fluent English;
• Qualified and experienced toxicologist to work on new technology programmes, customer support and REACH programme and ingredient issues related to toxicology and regulatory compliance;
• Experience in to support technology projects;
• Knowledge of REACH regulations, including hands-on experience with IUCLID dossier and Chesar system;
• Experience in weight of the evidence risk assessment and risk-based defence with regulatory authorities;
• Good general knowledge of chemistry;
• Work with and make a contribution to diverse project areas;
• Experience of safety assessment or ingredient registration processes.

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