Givaudan Careers Toxicologist

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 17,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.  

Our Fragrances Regulatory and Product Safety (RAPS) team supports essential business practices necessary for Givaudan that align with our stellar reputation for creating breathtaking fragrances. The RAPS team establishes suitable policies and tools worldwide at Givaudan, allowing consumers to enjoy and experience products of the highest quality, compliant with both regulations and their expectations.

We are looking to expand our Fragrances RAPS team and are hiring a Toxicologist who will provide scientific support to the regulatory function to ensure products follow regulatory requirements and our safety guidelines. Support creation of product documentation to ensure new products are efficiently registered with relevant authorities.

Based in our Argenteuil or Shanghai offices, we offer exciting opportunities for personal and professional development. Our work arrangement includes working 4 times per week at the office, and 1 day from home. Additionally, you will be reporting to the Head of Fragrance Human Safety Sciences.

In this exciting role, you will be responsible for:

Regulatory Policy

• Identify potential needs for new regulatory policies that ensure consistent and compliant business practices


• Provide scientific and regulatory support to commercial and business teams


• Participate as a project team member for assigned R&D, Commercial, or Operation teams representing PSRA/RAPS


• Assist Givaudan's regulatory and scientific advocacy program to support our initiatives


• Represent Givaudan on Industry safety committees


• Interpret scientific and technical data impacting Givaudan's Global Regulatory Toxicology group

Product Safety Assurance

• Ensure all of our products comply with customer safety guidelines, government regulations and trade association safety requirements


• Independently conduct safety studies and risk assessments


• Perform safety review of new flavour/fragrance substances developed by research and development before and during sensory evaluation

Product Documentation and Registration

• Assist commercialization of new Givaudan technology with registration and approvals of new molecules and products


• Coordinate efforts in obtaining relevant data needed to support the registrations application and acting as the liaison between assigned R&D project teams and Product safety

New Product Development

• Provide support for the regulatory aspects of new ingredient introduction and raw material maintenance


• Acquire and manage scientific information to support PSRA/RAPS initiatives


• Interpret scientific information to support global R&D initiatives

You - Your professional profile includes:

• University / Bachelor's Degree in scientific field (toxicology, biochemistry, chemistry or related areas)


• Minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience in product safety or relevant scientific area or regulatory affairs

• Fluent English


• Solid knowledge of fragrance regulations, chemistry, biology or toxicology


• Knowledge of industry and customer safety and regulatory requirements, including technical criteria or specifications


• Current knowledge of safety trends and issues facing the industry


• Working knowledge of safety assessment and ingredient registration requirements and processes


• Thorough knowledge of formulae creation procedures


• Solid knowledge of a specific regulatory or toxicology discipline and ability to manage that discipline within a broader regulatory environment


• Working knowledge of programmed systems and database management

Our benefits include:

• Annual bonus.


• Career Development Opportunities with access to many virtual learning sessions.


• International working environment

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Everyone — regardless of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, culture, religion, or any personal circumstances — is warmly welcomed at Givaudan, a place where we all love to be and grow.

Every essence of you enriches our world. Join us in making a difference together.