Senior Product Stewardship Specialist

About the position

Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Product Stewardship Specialist. This position can be located in Midland, MI, Freeport, TX, Houston, TX, Collegeville, PA, or any Dow Hub Location within the United States. As an Enterprise Product Steward within the Product Safety Operations group, you will provide global run-the-business Product Stewardship (PSS) support for the Personal Care portfolio within the Dow Consumer Solutions Business. In this role you will work in close collaboration with the respective Business Product Steward to ensure product regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Gains full knowledge of product stewardship practices within the business and uses this expertise to develop EH&S solutions
• Gains a thorough understanding of product hazards, product end-use applications (both supported and not supported) and existing product risk characterizations
• Maintains Risk Based Characterization tiers through regular reviews
• Reviews and approves Safety Data Sheets (SDS)/labels; develops and maintains a job aid for these reviews.
• Reviews and approves Product Material Requests (PMR) for New Product, Update Product, New Raw Materials; New Vendor and Raw Material updates.
• Reviews raw material suppliers and product formulations materials for regulatory compliance
• Ensure Product and Raw Material Data integrity
• Collaborates with the biz. Product Stewards and the Composition Specialists in the review and approval of product standard compositions
• Provides market specific support via developing new standard responses for customer inquiries and reviewing/approving product literature to ensure contains appropriate EH&S content.
• Supports regulatory compliance activities (e.g. coordinating Regulatory Data Sheet (RDS) creation and updates, product certifications, product regulatory reports, etc.)
• Identifies and reports events that qualify for the Product Stewardship Metric
• Delivers Product Stewardship training to internal and external audiences
• Identifies opportunities for work process improvements, digitalization and automation

Requirements

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in a science related discipline.
• A minimum of 4 years relevant experience required.
• SAP and/or PowerBI experience is an advantage.
• A minimum requirement for this U.S. based position is the ability to work legally in the United States. No visa sponsorship/support is available for this position, including for any type of U.S. permanent residency (green card) process.

Benefits

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
• Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
• Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs.
• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
• Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
• Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
• Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
• Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group's (ERG) participation.
• Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
• On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
• Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.