Director, Toxicology

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Formulate and implement the enterprise strategy for chemical safety and food toxicology.

• Create standards, policies, risk-based decision criteria, and technical governance relating to chemical contaminants, ingredients, processing-related hazards, packaging, food contact materials, and analytical testing.

• Act as the company's subject matter expert in toxicological risk assessment, chemical hazard evaluation, exposure assessment, and interpretation of scientific literature.

• Conduct chemical safety reviews and provide approvals for ingredients and food contact materials.

• Direct internal and external laboratory testing strategies, method selection, data interpretation, proficiency expectations, priorities, and escalation of results.

• Lead technical responses for incidents related to chemical safety, supplier non-conformance, consumer and customer inquiries, regulatory requests, and other escalations.

• Keep track of scientific, regulatory, consumer, customer, NGO, and legislative trends.

• Develop risk mitigation plans, business position recommendations, communication materials, and escalation summaries for senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Represent Campbell’s in external scientific organizations, trade associations, technical panels, and regulatory forums.

• Enhance internal capabilities through training, coaching, and cross-functional education.

• Create metrics, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms for chemical safety risks, program effectiveness, incident trends, laboratory performance, and enterprise food safety priorities.

• Standardize laboratory testing equipment and methods throughout the manufacturing network as applicable.

• Serve as an enterprise-level technical authority ensuring consumer safety, regulatory compliance, innovation timelines, and business continuity.

• Assess complex scientific, analytical, toxicological, regulatory, supplier, and business information.

• Make risk-based decisions that balance scientific judgment, regulatory expectations, operational feasibility, consumer trust, and business continuity.

• Offer rapid technical support for critical incidents, recalls, regulatory inquiries, consumer escalations, customer concerns, and supplier disruptions, including outside normal business hours when necessary.

• Influence senior leaders and cross-functional teams without always possessing direct authority.

• Report directly to the VP of Food Safety Quality.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree.

• Over 15 years of progressive experience in food, beverage, consumer packaged goods, ingredient, packaging, or related technical fields.

• Proven leadership in chemical safety, food toxicology, ingredient risk assessment, analytical chemistry, food contact materials, contaminant evaluation, regulatory toxicology, or related food safety areas.

• Experience in leading technical governance, enterprise standards, cross-functional risk decisions, external laboratory strategies, incident responses, and regulatory or customer-facing technical issues.

• Experience interacting directly with FDA, USDA, EPA, state agencies, international regulatory bodies, or customer regulatory and food safety teams.

• Experience participating in or leading industry association panels, scientific working groups, or external advisory forums.

• Familiarity with food manufacturing environments, supplier quality systems, co-manufacturers, ingredient commercialization, food packaging, external laboratories, and oversight of analytical chemistry programs.

• Knowledge of laboratory procedures and analytical equipment such as GC/MS, LC/QTOF, and ICPMS.

• Experience in managing and developing technical teams.

• A Ph.D. in Toxicology, Food Toxicology, Food Science, Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, or a related scientific discipline is strongly preferred.

• Board certification by the American Board of Toxicology or an equivalent specialized toxicology credential is preferred.

• Certifications or training in HACCP, PCQI, Lead Auditor, ASQ, Lean Six Sigma, risk assessment, regulatory science, or related technical fields are preferred.

• Extensive knowledge of food-relevant chemical hazards, including pesticides, heavy metals, acrylamide, mycotoxins, allergens at chemical safety interfaces, process contaminants, packaging migrants, food additives, colors, flavors, preservatives, and emerging contaminants.

• Strong working knowledge of U.S. and global food regulatory frameworks and standards relevant to finished products, ingredients, additives, contaminants, GRAS, food contact materials, packaging, Codex, FDA, USDA, EPA, state-level requirements, and customer expectations.

• Strong understanding of analytical chemistry methods, laboratory operations, data quality, method validation, uncertainty, exposure calculations, toxicological thresholds, and interpretation of testing results.

• Demonstrated ability to convert complex scientific and regulatory information into clear, concise, practical recommendations.

• Proven capacity to foresee business risks and opportunities, develop proactive mitigation plans, manage issue responses, and support crisis management.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Strong collaboration, influencing, and relationship-building skills.

• Strong program management, change management, prioritization, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Experience with chemical safety metrics, dashboards, horizon scanning, and reporting to senior leadership.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, AD&D, and life insurance starting on day one.

• Matching 401(k) plan with enrollment on the first day of employment and immediate vesting.

• Unlimited sick leave.

• Paid time off.

• Holiday pay.

• Complimentary access to the fitness center if located in WHQ.

• Access to on-site daycare services provided by Bright Horizons.

• Access to the company store.

• Campbell’s Cares program matching employee donations and/or volunteer activities up to $1,500 annually.

• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

• Competitive wellness benefits commencing on the first day of employment.