Product Stewardship Specialist

Under the guidance of the Trinseo Global Product Leader and the regional business stakeholders, the Product Stewardship Specialist / Expert is responsible for defining and executing product regulatory compliance across the various regions of commercial sales (in most cases regional NA, EU, AP). This role must ensure business compliance to all product regulatory and industry standards with regard to hazard communications, regional chemical inventories, and end-use product handling restrictions. This individual must ensure all internal and external communications with regard to Product Stewardship concerns with our products are appropriately managed through the calculation, review and assessment of the detailed product compositions (with the help of detailed raw material knowledge), under the guidance of the Product Stewardship Leader.

• Represent Global product stewardship with relevant business functions (including Quality, TS&D, R&D, product supply, and Commercial) to ensure the Product Stewardship concerns and requirements are addressed, with a particular focus on business product development, sustainable solutions, market expansion, and R&D objectives.
• Respond to customer’s inquiries on our products, typically about absence of chemicals of concern, compliance with sector relevant regulations, and sustainability. This activity ensures customer regulatory compliance and enhances customer loyalty. We target less than 10 business day response time to these customer inquiries, including customer forms and surveys.
• Assess and approve raw materials and finished products by working closely with internal stakeholders (procurement, R&D, sales) and suppliers. Assess product sales in new regions for their compliance. Partner with product steward specialists in other regions and internal regulatory experts for specific end uses (e.g. Food contact, Medical) as needed. This activity ensures products are in compliance with country of sale requirements, application specific regulations (e.g. Food contact, RoHS, etc), and Trinseo end use policies.
• Hazard communication of products. In collaboration with the Hazard communication team, responsible for the automatic authoring and the revision of the SDS document for specific products and for the global market. Assess the known product hazards based upon existing data or data acquired through new product testing (physical and/or toxicological testing).  When necessary, obtain business approval to conduct additional product testing in order to define product classification. Mitigate product risk through appropriate hazard communications and suggested methods for safe product handling (exposure control). Communicate to product supply the regulatory content of labels. This activity ensures Trinseo understands our product hazard classification and is able to communicate that effectively to customers.
• Manage compliance documentation.  When necessary, refresh the data on various raw materials via direct communications with raw material suppliers.  Utilize the Raw Material Regulatory checklist (RMRC) to obtain information from suppliers.  Keep this checklist current to reflect changes in product regulations throughout the globe.
• Define the detailed product composition based on the starting materials. This activity ensures products are launched with full understanding of regulatory compliance, and when applicable the possible restrictions in terms of region of sale, or end-use application.
• Collaborate with product stewards across product lines and geographical regions to improve best practices by end use (Automotive, Medical, Electronics, etc).
• Monitor Regulatory Changes, assess and communicate impact, implement and execute compliance strategies. The regulatory landscape is undergoing continuous change.  Product Stewards must identify relevant changes and take appropriate actions to maintain product regulatory compliance for the company.
• Maintain local regulatory expertise on the more sensitive end-use applications for our products (such as food contact, and medical devises), and be prepared to address the unique concerns of our customers in these markets.  This activity ensures Trinseo products are sold into appropriate markets and when necessary have additional data available to validate the safety of those products in these sensitive markets.
• Evaluate product additives and product compositions for their sustainable chemistry.  Promote reductions or the elimination of chemicals that are categorized as PBT (Persistent, bio-accumulative or toxic) and or substances of high concern.  This activity ensures that we are prepared to change our products based upon regulatory and industry pressures, to sustain our “license to sell”.
• Represent the function when management of change (MOC) assessments occur.  Help define the impact of a product change (Management of Change (MOC) and Notification of Change (NOC)) in terms of EH&S risks and product safety.  This activity ensures changes are assessed for their potential impacts, and when necessary customers are notified of those changes.
• Judge (based upon expert consensus) the GPS risks associated with new products and or new applications.  Utilize the Business Risk Review work process, under the guidance of a of Product Stewardship Specialist or Leader, to define action plans that mitigate the EH&S risks associated with the entire product life-cycle.  As needed train business leadership on the Business Risk Review Work Process, the business elevation criteria and process trigger events.  This activity ensures that EH&S business risks associated with Trinseo products and end-use applications have been assessed, and are being managed
• Support the IMDS (International Material Data System) database to provide compositional information to Automotive customers in a managed fashion.  This activity ensures our Automotive customers have timely access to product compositional information.  We target a 24 hour response time for these the completion of these requests.
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A Bachelor of Science (B.S.) or Masters degree in Chemistry, Toxicology, Biology, or other Environmental Sciences is a minimum requirement

Minimum 2-5 year in Product Stewardship role is essential.

Understanding of EU chemical regulations (REACH, CLP) is essential.

Understanding of the products (compounds) or end-use application is essential.

Excellent Communication Skills: must be able to take complex regulatory information and translate this information into the essential business requirements, and communicate them to the business in a clear and concise manner.

Experience working on Polyurethanes is a plus.

Experience in working on global teams and knowledge of non EU chemical regulations is a plus.

Experience in human or environmental toxicology is a plus.

Experience in EU food contact regulation is a plus.

Applicant must have strong communication skills with Italian and English being the primary business language.

Applicant must be experienced with the use of the Microsoft office tools (Word, Excel and Outlook).

Past experience with SAP database use and knowledge of the ESPS module for Product Stewardship would be highly beneficial.