Senior Chemical Regulatory Specialist (Food contact)

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Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 155,000 employees who are committed to safe, responsible and sustainable ways to nourish the world. This position is in Cargill’s food ingredients and bio-industrial business, where we anticipate trends around taste, nutrition and safety to innovate and provide solutions to manufacturers, retailers and foodservice companies.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Chemical Regulatory Specialist will provide subject matter expertise with chemical regulatory compliance, chemical management and industrial product stewardship for products with bio industrial and industrial applications. In this role, you will develop, implement and maintain processes and programs to minimize deficiencies and ensure compliance with existing EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), country specific and local laws, regulations, licenses, permits and ordinances pertaining to bio industrial safety.

Key Accountabilities

• Monitors, assesses and documents business impacts, resolve actions and communicates to partners changing or emerging product stewardship/chemical regulatory laws and regulations with an action plan for deployment and implementation of actions working with teams.
• Provides expertise and knowledge of existing and emerging EMEA based chemical regulations, their applicability and analysis for chemical regulations in EMEA and other regions.
• Provides complete and balanced required country-specific substance registrations, reporting, notifications and dossier development where products may be distributed and/or sold to support new product development and launch as well as growth of existing products.
• Performs research and critical review of chemical, biochemical, and general toxicology/safety data and literature, compile reports and notifications to governmental agencies.
• Delivers chemical regulatory/ product stewardship/ training to the business, technical teams and/or customers.
• Participates in advocacy efforts within significant trade organizations, product panels, and product environmental safety groups as necessary to elevate/support Cargill’s position with innovation, development and compliance efforts.
• Works with other regional chemical regulatory / product stewards to coordinate compliance requirements as applicable.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Experience leading or supporting cross functional groups and teams
• Experience with Food contact testing
• Experience with regulatory monitoring/scientific data tools such as chemical watch, 3E Insight for Chemicals, Sci-finder®, QSARs and other similar tools.
• Experience with read-across and getting substance level information on tox/eco-tox, OELs, in-vivo, in-vitro studies and other hazard classification data from databases such as ECHA, EPA and other agencies as applicable.
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Other minimum qualifications may apply
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Active participation in international chemical trade associations.
• REACH experience in other countries beyond the European Union.
• Experience with SAP-EHS and/or GSM.
• Active participation in REACH consortia.
• Experience with Poison Center Notifications.
  
  

Our Offer

We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

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