About This Role
The Toxicologist plays a crucial role in supporting the regulatory function at Givaudan, ensuring that products comply with regulatory requirements and safety guidelines. This position is ideal for someone passionate about product safety and regulatory affairs, contributing to the creation of high-quality fragrances that enhance human experiences.
Responsibilities
- Identify potential needs for new regulatory policies that ensure consistent and compliant business practices
- Provide scientific and regulatory support to commercial and business teams
- Participate as a project team member for assigned R&D, Commercial, or Operation teams representing PSRA/RAPS
- Assist Givaudan's regulatory and scientific advocacy program to support our initiatives
- Represent Givaudan on Industry safety committees
- Interpret scientific and technical data impacting Givaudan's Global Regulatory Toxicology group
- Ensure all of our products comply with customer safety guidelines, government regulations and trade association safety requirements
- Independently conduct safety studies and risk assessments
- Perform safety review of new flavour/fragrance substances developed by research and development before and during sensory evaluation
- Assist commercialization of new Givaudan technology with registration and approvals of new molecules and products
- Coordinate efforts in obtaining relevant data needed to support the registrations application and acting as the liaison between assigned R&D project teams and Product safety
- Provide support for the regulatory aspects of new ingredient introduction and raw material maintenance
- Acquire and manage scientific information to support PSRA/RAPS initiatives
- Interpret scientific information to support global R&D initiatives
Requirements
- University / Bachelor's Degree in scientific field (toxicology, biochemistry, chemistry or related areas)
- Minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience in product safety or relevant scientific area or regulatory affairs
- Fluent English
- Solid knowledge of fragrance regulations, chemistry, biology or toxicology
- Knowledge of industry and customer safety and regulatory requirements, including technical criteria or specifications
- Current knowledge of safety trends and issues facing the industry
- Working knowledge of safety assessment and ingredient registration requirements and processes
- Thorough knowledge of formulae creation procedures
- Solid knowledge of a specific regulatory or toxicology discipline and ability to manage that discipline within a broader regulatory environment
- Working knowledge of programmed systems and database management
