Ecotox Specialist

Position Description

Position Purpose

The role holder shall report to the Lead Regulatory LATAM & Global Chemistry and shall be responsible for:

• Providing scientific and regulatory expertise in ecotoxicology to support the development, registration, and lifecycle management of crop protection products.


• Ensures that ecotoxicological risk assessments comply with global regulatory requirements.


• Provide scientific input to product stewardship strategies and sustainability initiatives.


• Support internal and external scientific discussions, including meetings with regulatory authorities and contract research organizations (CROs).


• Monitor and interpret changes in international ecotoxicology regulations and guidance documents.


• Monitoring and constant improvement of collaboration with CROs concerning quality and timeline.


• The interaction with the respective regulatory authorities, pre- and post-submission.


• Consulting of Research for Phase 1 and Phase 2 chemistry projects concerning regulatory requirements and constraints for upcoming pipeline candidates.


• Support of the preparation of Phase 3 decisions.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Design, review, and interpret ecotoxicological studies for active ingredients and formulated products, including acute, chronic, and higher-tier studies.


• Ensure regulatory compliance with authorities such as IBAMA (Brazil), EPA (US), CIBRC (India).


• Provide scientific justification for waivers, read across, and bridging approaches.


• Perform environmental risk assessments for non-target organisms (aquatic organisms, birds, mammals, bees, arthropods, soil organisms, and plants).


• Evaluate study reports conducted according to OECD, EPA, EU, IBAMA, CIBRC and other internationally recognized guidelines under GLP.


• Support data gap analyses and define ecotoxicology testing strategies aligned with regulatory and product development timelines.


• Prepare and review ecotoxicology sections of regulatory dossiers for product registrations, renewals, amendments, and equivalence submissions.

Operational Responsibilities

• Support responses to regulatory questions, deficiency letters, and data requests related to ecotoxicology.


• Contribute to risk mitigation proposals, label restrictions, and environmental protection measures.


• Provide regulatory guidance into projects, especially Phase 2 and 3 but also advanced Phase 1, regularly join respective project and committee meetings.


• Interact with regulatory authorities in key countries pre- and post-submission to position PI candidates and evaluate potential risks in the approval process at earliest possible time.


• Closely collaborate with CROs on progress of regulatory studies, upcoming issues and respective impacts on risk assessments.

Financial Responsibilities

People Responsibilities

Education Qualification

• Extensive experience in Ecotoxicology, Environmental Sciences, Biology, Toxicology, Ecology, or a related scientific field.


• Degree in a related subject, e.g. agriculture, chemistry, biology.

Work Experience

Experience in environmental safety, preferably within the crop protection industry or regulatory consulting for > 5 years

Industry to be Hired from

Agrochemical, Seeds & Traits, Agronomy

Functional Competencies

Interaction Complexity and Team Work