Product Stewardship Director-France/Belgium

Our client is a world leader in mineral-based specialties for industry. Due to continuing growth, they are now looking for “Product Stewardship Director“ who will be responsible for EMEA and APAC regions. The position can be located in Paris, Toulouse or Brussels with travels (around 15% of the time). Reporting to the VP Product Stewatership, this role’s main purpose is to lead the implementation of group`s Product Stewardship strategies and Product Stewardship best practices within their BA to ensure regulatory compliance, minimize liability risk and add business value.

Responsibilities:

• Direct management and professional development of a team of Product Stewardship Managers and SDS Authors.

• In collaboration with the BA S&T VP and the Global PS Director, determine future organizational needs (number, location, skills) to meet evolving product stewardship challenges and Group Product Stewardship Vision. 

• Ensure regulatory compliance of domestic, export and import (in collaboration with importing location/BA) products to all applicable country and application-specific product regulations; 

• Accountable for M4 implementation with responsibility of M4 programme manager 

• Proactively track and understand regulations impacting BA applications/sales locations; early communication of potential regulatory impacts to the BA via Product & Market Managers. 

• Working with the Global Product Stewardship Director, support the development of Group-wide Product Stewardship tools, systems, processes, policies, best practices and strategies; implement in BA Product Stewardship work practices. 

• Ensure BA product portfolio is risk assessed (health, environmental & liability exposures), including routine risk assessments for NPD/M&A projects. Regularly communicate results of risk analyses to BA Product & Market Mgrs.

• Provide BA customers with comprehensive and compliant product safety information (SDS, Safety Bulletins etc.) that enables them to use Group`s products safely in their intended applications. 

• Ensure the PS team responds to customer product stewardship inquiries according to Group`s agreed protocols and target response metrics (both to be established). 

• Facilitate collaboration across BA/regional boundaries to foster a mindset within the PS team.

• Participation in external industry association Technical Boards, Working Groups and Committees as appropriate where skills/knowledge/experience can be best leveraged for Industry and Group impact.

Accountability:

• Product Regulatory Compliance: Legal compliance in the countries and applications served by the BA product portfolio 

• Product Safety Communication: Legally compliant, comprehensive and accurate BA safety communications, primarily, but not exclusively, Safety Data Sheets (SDS).

• Risk Assessments: Availability of prioritized risk assessments across BA product portfolio. 

• Customer Communication: Management of BA customer product stewardship inquiries from receipt to response and closure. 

Title, Position in the Organization and Grading:

• Reporting to: BA S&T VP 

• Resources/team: 

  • Solid line: L5 Product Stewardship Managers and Product Safety Manager/Coordinators. 

  • Key external stakeholders: Customers, governmental agencies, industry associations, scientific communities.