Senior Toxicologist

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and imagination, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

In France, discover the empowered passionate professionals who made history creating our legendary perfumery school. Feel the heritage. Acquire knowledge and experience, gained in our renowned European Creation Centre, or from any of our 17 innovative sites across the country. Every day, your commitment, your humility, and your risk-taking will shape our future. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Senior Toxicologist, your future role?

You will be an important part of Fragrance & Beauty, which is at the heart of Givaudan. We have a rich history of creating fragrances that strike an emotional chord with consumers. We are inspired by our rich heritage and our contribution to defining the evolution of trends over time. We create fragrances that shape people's lives.

Product safety is instrumental in Givaudan's continued strategic and operational excellence. With a focus on the Fragrance and Beauty division, you will provide scientific expertise to the Product Safety Sciences function to ensure products follow regulatory requirements and our safety guidelines. You will support the creation of product documentation to ensure new products registered with relevant authorities, ensuring exceptional customer experiences.

Reporting to the Head of Product Safety Sciences, you will be based in our corporate office located in Argenteuil, working four days onsite and one from home a week.

Sounds interesting? It could well be your perfect opportunity if you always aim to exceed customer needs and you want to pursue a professional career at the world's leader in flavours and fragrances.

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
  
  

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.

You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.

Every essence of you enriches our world.

Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.

Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.