Senior Product Safety Specialist New Innovation materials

Do you want to contribute to the sustainable development of tomorrow´s hygiene and health products through product safety?

Our ambition at Essity is to increase health and hygiene standards across the world. Essity has many strong international brands, a genuine focus on sustainability, strong company culture and a positive atmosphere with motivated, competent, and high performing colleagues. As a Senior Product Safety Specialist New Innovation Materials, you will have a challenging and developing job, with a high impact, in a global company and be a strong addition to the Product Safety team.

About the Role

Safety is an integral part of Essity’s sustainable business model and our strategy for growth and value creation. We are committed to offer products with the highest safety standards for human use throughout the product's life cycle. At Essity we do not compromise on safety, and we have experts in our product safety team taking care of that every day - for regulatory compliance and going beyond to fulfil the high expectations of our consumers, customers, and other stakeholders.

We are looking for an experienced Product Safety Material expert for new materials and biobased materials. The role is involved early in our innovation and product development projects and is responsible to give advice, support and assess better, safe and environmentally sound products for menstruation use, for incontinence management and for baby diapers. The role is further responsible to actively build, develop, maintain and defend product safety procedures, positions and information for internal and external use.

The position will preferably be based in our office in Gothenburg, Sweden, alternatively in Germany (Hamburg, Mannheim or Munich) and reports to the Product Safety Manager, based in Gothenburg.

What You Will Do

1. Represent the textile-based, re-usable absorbent underwear product segment as product safety and regulatory affairs specialist and advisor to activities, projects and networks within Essity.
2. Provide product safety support, procedures, guidelines and requirements to the organization.
3. Provide material science, chemistry and biobased material knowledge to the organization.
4. Collaborate with both internal (e.g. R&D, Business Units, Procurement, Sustainability, Public Affairs) and external stakeholders (e.g. customers and NGOs).
5. Perform risk assessments and/or support toxicological evaluations in connection with collecting and evaluating supplier data, external certificates and coordinating tests and analysis.
6. Lead the internal development of how product safety is ensured together with the regulatory evolution in the different markets globally.
7. Support innovation teams and procurement by steering suppliers towards the expected safety standards.
8. Be the expert resource on product safety questions for new innovation materials in products for internal or external stakeholders.
9. Train the organization in product safety for new materials.
10. Be updated on market competition as well as external trends that influence our goals and the product safety of the products.
11. Monitor and create awareness on present and upcoming material product safety directives and legislation.
12. Drive and/or proactively participate in internal and external competence transfers and networks.

Who You Are

1. University degree (B.Sc, M.Sc. or PhD or similar) with focus on materials’ and chemicals’ properties.
2. Good knowledge in chemistry, chemical engineering, material science and production and biobased materials through your studies or work experience.
3. Extensive experience in a product safety-relevant position, either in the industry, in a testing institute or at the university.
4. Knowledge of how to convert chemical legislation and material requirements into requirements for products for hygiene and healthcare use and consumer products.
5. Ideally, but not a prerequisite, you have knowledge and experience from working with fast-moving consumer products, combined with an angle of introducing new innovative materials.

While the functional competencies are a prerequisite to fit the role, we also put great value in your personal characteristics. To be successful at Essity and in this role you are reflective, accurate and reliable, with a good judgment of what is practically possible. You can accept uncertainty and keep improving while you move. You should be curious to understand the whole picture and behave as a business partner towards innovation and commercial colleagues. You are pragmatic and willing to learn and continuously improve the processes and systems in which you are working. You are a compelling communicator, with a high sense of collaboration.

You are a self-leading and solution-minded person who takes responsibility for your deliverables, and you get motivated by pursuing a higher aim and taking initiatives to achieve it. It is an advantage to have the ability to navigate in a high pace complex matrix organization as this will be your daily work environment, where changes are frequently occurring. Since Essity is an international company, the role requires you to have both verbal and written skills in English.

Additional Information

Please apply online in English through our website at your earliest convenience.

What We Can Offer You

At Essity, we believe every career is as unique as the individual and empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.
Collaborative and Caring Culture | Empowerment & Engaged People | Work with Impact and A Powerful Purpose | Individual Learning & Career Growth | Health & Safety Priority | Sustainable Value Together | Innovation | Sustainable Working Life | Total Reward

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Application End Date: 28 Jan. 2025

Job Requisition ID: Essity249370