Efate Specialist

Position Description

Position Purpose

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

• Design, select, and oversee environmental fate and degradation studies in accordance with international guidelines (e.g. OECD, EPA, IBAMA).


• Provide expert interpretation of laboratory and field studies, including Soil degradation OECD 307); Aquatic sediment studies (OECD 308); Anaerobic soil metabolism (OECD 311); Adsorption/desorption (OECD 106), Hydrolysis (OECD 111), Photolysis in water and soil (OECD 316), Volatilization and dissipation studies.


• Evaluate degradation kinetics (DT50, DT90), metabolite profiles, mass balance, and pathway elucidation.


• Support higher-tier studies and risk refinement when required (e.g. field dissipation, modelling).


• 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

Operational Responsibilities

• Prepare, review, and compile environmental fate sections of regulatory dossiers for New active ingredients, technical equivalence and Formulated products.


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


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


• Respond to regulatory questions, deficiency letters, and data gap requests.


• Support exposure assessments using fate data and modelling tools.


• Provide input for environmental risk assessments (ERA) for soil, surface water, groundwater, and sediment compartments.


• Collaborate with ecotoxicology and residue experts to support integrated environmental risk assessments.


• Manage environmental fate studies at CROs and research institutions, including Protocol review, Study monitoring & Data evaluation and reporting.


• 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 Environmental Sciences, Chemistry, Soil Science, Environmental Chemistry, Agronomy, or related discipline


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

Work Experience

Experience in environmental fate and behaviour of agrochemicals, 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