Toxicology Director
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The Toxicology Director leads the company’s global toxicology strategy and corporate Toxicology function, supporting chemical registration, hazard communication, sustainability initiatives, and emerging regulatory requirements. The role manages a small team of toxicologists and ecotoxicologists, allocates resources, and partners with internal businesses and external organizations. It directs toxicological assessments, risk assessment and product hazard evaluation, and provides strategic support to business leaders and enterprise operations.
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The Toxicology Director leads, develops, and establishes the global toxicology strategy, including support for chemical registration, hazard communication, sustainability initiatives, and emerging regulatory requirements. The Toxicology Director ensures that broad deliverables are met for the corporate Toxicology function, including managing relationships with internal businesses and external parties, providing leadership and strategic vision, allocating resources, and managing talent within the organization. The Toxicology Director is a board-certified toxicologist who manages a small team of toxicologists and eco-toxicologists. MANAGEMENT - Hire, coach, and support toxicologists and ecotoxicologists, and toxicology leaders. - Drive alignment of Toxicology team roles and responsibilities across interacting teams and functions within Product Stewardship and the businesses. - Assign priorities and allocate resources to ensure goals and company strategies are met. Recommend priorities for partnership organizations (R&D, government affairs, IT etc.). - Complete performance evaluations and goals. Actively manage development plans to ensure effective succession planning - Coach and develop the Toxicology team; identify skill gaps, create development plans, provide feedback, and address performance issues proactively. - Build organizational capability in toxicology, ecotoxicology, risk assessment, and computational toxicology tools. - Promote engagement with scientific societies and external organizations to ensure the team remains current with scientific developments and industry best practices. TOXICOLOGY SUPPORT - Direct toxicological and ecotoxicological assessments originating from a wide range of sources, including portfolio reviews, alternatives assessments for specific chemicals, enterprise initiatives, advocacy campaigns, and toxicological or regulatory inquiries. - Direct teams responsible for toxicology and ecotoxicology support for global chemical registration and notification programs. - Oversee placement and management of toxicology and ecotoxicology studies through contract research organizations and review study outcomes with the team. - Provide leadership for product hazard evaluation and classification processes. Ensure teams deliver robust risk assessments, support hazard communication systems and SDS classification methodologies, provide regulatory interpretations, and maintain compliance with global regulatory requirements. - Support legal actions, as needed. - Represent Sherwin-Williams on Boards of Directors for professional organizations, as appropriate. CUSTOMER AND BUSINESS SUPPORT - Partner with Product Stewardship, Sustainability, R&D, Marketing, Legal, and Government Affairs leadership to ensure effective toxicology practices. - Provide timely and accurate analysis of potential toxicology impacts of new business opportunities, including support of stage gate reviews during new product commercialization. - Act independently to achieve enterprise objectives. Partner with cross-functional leadership to lead, develop, and ensure execution of Toxicology strategy and broader deliverables to support the overall enterprise strategy and operations. - Collaborate with senior or executive business and functional leaders so that they anticipate, identify, and assess emerging toxicology trends and benefit from the insights provided by the Toxicology organization. - Provide toxicology training to key stakeholders. CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT Identify and drive continuous improvement projects that bring efficiency or cost savings across the Toxicology function and within partnership operations. Align resources to support simultaneoulsy all critical business projects, i
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- US median$23–36/hr43 hourly ranges
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