Toxicology Director

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, including acquisitions, divestitures, plant closures, technology transfers, or other.
• Act as functional lead for IT or other cross-functional projects with significant global or financial impact. Responsibilities may include project management, project design, communications, and operational planning.
• Lead highly complex toxicology or cross-functional projects with visibility to executive leadership.
• Serve as functional expert.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement in Toxicology by building cross-training and capability development into everyday work; encourage mentorship, boost team flexibility, and help keep compliance programs strong and sustainable over time.
• Drive advancement of predictive toxicology and QSAR capabilities. 

This position is not hybrid/remote.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa.

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships. 

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in toxicology or related field (biology, pharmacology, public health, or chemistry) from an accredited institution
• 10+ years’ experience in toxicology, product safety, product stewardship, regulatory affairs or technical function
• Experience in coatings, chemicals or materials industry
• Experience in professional or trade association working groups
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
• Project leadership of cross functional, large-scale, and global projects or initiatives
• Excellent presentation skills, including experience presenting to external and executive leadership audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in toxicology from an accredited institution
• Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology
• 15+ years’ experience in toxicology or product safety
• Prior experience managing staff