Senior Director Global Product Safety and Clinical Affairs-Roswell, Georgia or Neenah, Wisconsin

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Quality Jobs – Roswell, GeorgiaQuality Jobs – Neenah, Wisconsin   SENIOR DIRECTOR GLOBAL PRODUCT SAFETY AND CLINICAL AFFAIRS-Roswell, Georgia or Neenah, Wisconsin Requisition number – 1500006V Location: Roswell, Georgia Position Summary: This team leader position reports to the Vice-President of Global Quality and is responsible for providing executive leadership to two global teams – Global Clinical Affairs and Global Product Safety. The incumbent will lead these organizations with the remit of ensuring that all Kimberly-Clark products and services sold worldwide are substantiated as safe for their intended use, governmental product safety regulations and meet Company policies and standards and developing clinical evidence and clinical education programs (if needed) in support of the achievement of business strategies and objectives. Product Safety and Clinical services are provided to all Corporate Functions, Business Sectors and Equity Affiliates of the Corporation worldwide. Management, technical leadership and professional development is provided to team leaders, senior professional and supporting Product Safety, Product Stewardship and Clinical Affairs staff located in Neenah, Roswell, Reigate, JukJeon and other regions as needed. The incumbent is required to lead a team to  develop and sustain a Global Product Safety approach and clinical strategies that ensure state-of-the-art toxicological  and clinical expertise,  assessments, trials processes and systems are applied that not only ensure product and human safety, but also drive product innovation, sustainability and speed-to-market. The incumbent provides advice to business units based on scientific principles of human health risk assessment or environmental impact with emphasis on helping K-C businesses find viable options and alternatives that are both safe and help achieve Corporate business objectives. Principal Accountabilities: •    Provide consultative, investigative and research services to identify characteristics in the materials and design of Kimberly-Clark products and clinical trials to ensure safety, regulatory and corporate standard compliance.  Recommend steps as necessary to ensure the safety and efficacy of these products and trials thereby minimizing customer dissatisfaction and/or corporate liability and to develop alternative testing methodologies, which can safely be utilized in K-C products and clinical strategies. •    Develop, maintain and improve control systems and procedures that ensure that new materials or products are adequately reviewed for their safety prior to authorization to market. Integrate the K-C Product Safety system into the Innovative Management Framework and other Product Development processes so that these systems function efficiently. •    Maintain an awareness of the constantly changing safety, regulatory and medico-legal requirements, translating them into consistent, comprehensive policies and strategies and implementing them to ensure products are safe for both the corporation and its customers. •    Ensure awareness of newly described potentials for adverse safety effects relating to the Corporation's products or product components. Recommend actions to resolve adverse impact upon the Corporation. •    Ensure expertise, processes and systems are in place to conduct due diligence on behalf of the Company as required. •     Develop and administer a system for receiving, storing, and retrieving confidential information from vendors, suppliers and/or customers as necessary for safety evaluation of K-C products. Ensure that the confidentiality of this information is maintained both within and outside the Corporation.