Global Product Stewardship Manager

**Our purpose**

Join a team that’s passionate about partnership. With careers at Dow, we take time to explore questions and talk to each other. We love to learn. Our people are driven by limitless curiosity.

We are an innovative, customer centric, inclusive, and sustainable materials science company.
- Employing 36,500 individuals
- Across 109 manufacturing sites
- In over 31 countries

Our portfolio of products and solutions include:

- Plastics: With new technology trends, our plastic additives can be experienced in many everyday items including vinyl, blow-molding bottles, film, rigid containers, PVC plastics, siding, decks and rails, foam pipes and profile formulations, window frames and high-efficiency lubricants.
- Industrial intermediates: As the product of a reaction that is beneficial when used as a precursor chemical for another product, industrial intermediates can take on many shapes and forms. Ours are used in home comfort and appliance, building and construction, adhesives and lubricants, and more.
- Coatings: Whether it’s a water-based coating or solvent-based coating, a thin film is deposited on materials to enhance specific properties such as enhanced performance, durability, aesthetics, and sustainability.We make diversity and inclusion a priority—because sharing our perspectives and building on each other’s ideas will drive innovation. Could you imagine yourself in a place like this?

**About you**

The Consumer Solutions business at Dow is looking for a talented, motivated colleague to take on the role of **Global Product Stewardship Manager** for the Personal Care portfolio

In this role, you will be instrumental to our EH&S and Sustainability offering to our internal and external partners and will be tasked with propelling our Personal Care business forward into a new science-driven, sustainable future. You will be a partner to our customers and to our internal product safety and commercial functions.

The location of this role is flexible and can be done from any of our locations in **Europe**.

**Also, you can complete each of the following tasks**:

- Responsible for the implementation of the global Product Stewardship Plan for the Personal Care product portfolio
- Responsible for the creation of Product Safety literature for the portfolio, including both silicone and organic products
- Provides Product Stewardship and regulatory expertise to the Innovation Portfolio, including silicones, organics, and external partnerships in unique, bio-derived technology areas
- Initiates and conducts high risk, complicated, cross-business, and/or recurrent Business Risk Reviews (BRRs)
- Identifies and interprets public priority issues impacting product and provides guidance to the business
- Responsible for management of raw material supplier information and reviews to ensure that our raw materials comply with numerous global regulations including but not limited to regulations around cosmetics and global biodiversity protection protocols
- Represents Dow in industry groups and associations
- Provide regulatory expertise in Personal Care regulations and REACH support for the portfolio
- Designs and delivers regulatory and product stewardship communication and training for key internal and external stakeholders
- Responds to escalated and complex customer EH&S inquiries and provides dedicated EH&S support to several customers
- Influences business/corporate sustainability goals by engaging with sustainability teams
- Holds the level of expertise in product stewardship which is leverageable beyond the region/work group the individual directly supports
**Your required qualifications include**:

- You have minimum a Bachelor's degree in a technical/science related field
- Significant experience in Product Stewardship or a similar function in EH&S or Technical Sales & Development
**Your preferred qualifications include**:

- A Master's degree in a technical/science related field is highly preferred
- Experience in Personal Care is preferred
**Your skills, knowledge, and abilities include**:

- Strong business and corporate knowledge and strong communication skills
- Strong customer focus
- Highly capable of independent learning and subsequent teaching on regulatory topics such as nanomaterials, GMO, biodiversity
**Additional notes**
- We do not offer relocation assistance for Dow jobs like this position.

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Dow Offers:

- A robust total rewards program, including: competitive base pay, variable pay that rewards individual, team, and Company performance, and comprehensive benefits
- On-going learning opportunities within a diverse, inclusive and rewarding work environment
- Career experiences that can span different Dow businesses and functions with opportunities for personal and professional growth
- The chance to work within a