Director Product Stewardship

The Director of Product Stewardship will lead and drive strategic initiatives across the diverse portfolio at Celanese. This person will be part of the Product Stewardship Leadership Team to oversee global product stewardship efforts, ensuring compliance, safety, and sustainability.  

This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with global teams, structure and transform workflows, and lead the development of processes that drive product safety and regulatory compliance consistent with our vision for world-class product safety performance. There is autonomy to scope and shape projects, make critical decisions, and work cross-functionally to support innovation, continuous improvement and compliance initiatives across the business.

This is an opportunity for a hands-on leader who can bring expertise in product stewardship and work across multiple divisions and geographies to shape the future of the organization’s Product Stewardship efforts.

• Manage the Global Product Stewardship organization of approximately 30 employees in multiple regions around the world.
• Ensure global product regulatory compliance, hazard communication, product safety/product risk management across all business lines in all regions.
• Ensure Product Risk Management (PRM) process is used appropriately to mitigate risk especially in regulated end uses such as medical, pharmaceutical, food contact, etc.
• Manage the Sensitive End-Use Global group for medical, pharmaceutical, food contact support to Product Lines.
• Ensure regulatory compliance of products and raw materials in the various geographies and use markets that Celanese sells into (food contact, medical, pharmaceutical, automotive, etc.).
• Maintain proactive awareness of global emerging regulatory trends and effectively communicate business implications to business stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Develop and drive execution of compliance strategies in response to new regulatory requirements and ensure business continuity.
• Ensure product stewardship is integrated into key business processes.
• Continuously improve operational productivity of the global Product Stewardship team through regular evaluations and updates of work processes, tools, organization and staffing strategy.
• Work with Product Stewardship managers and teams to develop product stewardship goals and ensure alignment with business strategy.
• Lead product stewardship advocacy efforts in partnership with Government Affairs by building and maintaining effective partnerships with trade groups and regulatory bodies.
• Serve as work stream leader for business acquisitions, divestments and integrations.
• Communicate with customers and government authorities as representatives of the company when needed.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, chemistry, or relevant field
• 15+ total years of experience, 8+ years of experience in product stewardship
• Experience leading global product stewardship/regulatory affairs teams.
• Expertise in regulated end uses at global level particularly for food contact, medical, pharma.
• Extensive knowledge of global chemical regulatory requirements (i.e. TSCA, REACH) and industry best practices