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**Senior Specialist, Product Safety** spearheads global product safety initiatives, authoring SDS/label content, conducting advanced hazard classification, and translating regulatory changes. Leads cross-functional teams and mentors specialists using platforms like Sphera IA and SAP EHS, ensuring high-quality, compliant safety documentation.Requires 5-8 years in Product Safety/HazCom, advanced science degree, and expertise in GHS, EU CLP, US OSHA, and eSDS. Offers up to 10% travel and relocation assistance.
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About the role :
Deliver seniorlevel product safety authoring, classification and regulatory interpretation for a global product portfolio, ensuring highquality SDS/label content, accurate mixture classification, and compliant notifications while mentor specialists and partnering with other team members crossfunctionally!
Key accountabilities
Lead SDS and Label Authoring Activities: Take ownership for complex SDS authoring and label content creation and updates, ensuring scientific accuracy, regulatory compliance and global alignment. Conduct and lead peer reviews, maintain consistency across product lines, and proactively identify content improvements.
Perform Advanced Hazard Classification & Assessments: Apply expertlevel GHS/EU CLP/US OSHA/Other hazard classification to substances and mixtures, resolving borderline cases, interpreting tox/ecotox data where possible, and advising colleagues on appropriate risk language and product hazard conclusions
Translate Regulatory Changes Into Practical Implementation: Monitor evolving global hazard communication and other associated regulations (e.g., CLP revisions, new hazard classes, eSDS updates, regional changes), assess impacts on product portfolios, and convert requirements into clear, actionable plans for GPS and business participants.
Prepare & Lead Notifications and Submissions: Deliver highquality regulatory notifications and dossiers (e.g., Canada HMIRA, PCN/UFI, CLP updates), ensure documentation is auditready, and support responses to regulatory authorities or customerrequested compliance documentation.
Partner with Global Stakeholders Across the Value Chain: Act as a senior technical contact for R&D/Technology, Product Management, Supply Chain, Legal and HSE teams, offering clear mentorship on product safety impacts, documentation needs, and timelines to support business continuity and compliant product launches.
Drive Systems Use, Reporting & Continuous Improvement: Use authoring platforms (e.g., Sphera IA, SAP EHS, Lisam, 3E, UL WERCS) proficiently; support UAT, regression testing, and enhancements; produce compliance reports; and drive improvements in templates, data structures, and quality systems!
Essential education & Experience:
- Bachelors in Chemistry or related science degree. Advanced degree preferred (toxicology/ecotox advantageous).
- 5 8 years in Product Safety/HazCom/Product Stewardship including senior authoring, global mixture classification and regulatory notification for multiple regions.
- GHS/EU CLP/US OSHA/Other HazCom; eSDS/exposure scenarios; Dangerous Goods awareness (UN/ADR/IMDG/IATA)
- SDS/label governance, templates, multilingual outputs; strong quality mindset
- Authoring platforms (Sphera IA, SAP EHS, Lisam, 3E, UL WERCS) ; data integrity and version control
Ways of working & compliance:
Operate to bps OMS 7.5 Product Stewardship and assurance practices; ensure audit readiness and drive continuous improvement of processes and systems.
Clear, calm communicator of complex topics to nonspecialists
Inclusive coach who builds capability and psychological safety
Collaborative partner across Product, R&D/Technology, Legal, Supply Chain
Sound judgement under pressure and regulatory ambiguity
Continuous improver focused on quality, simplicity and ownership
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