Career Opportunities: Ecotox Specialist (10209)

Requisition ID 10209 - Posted  - Regulatory - India - Udaipur

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Position Description

Business Division:

PI-Int. Agri

Department:

Global Development

Location:

India

Position Title:

Ecotox Specialist

Level:

tbd

Reporting to (Title):

Lead Regulatory LATAM & Global Chemistry

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.
• 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

• Strong knowledge of regulatory ecotoxicology requirements and risk assessment frameworks
• Proven experience in ecotoxicology within the agrochemical, pesticide, or crop protection industry.
• Experience with global registration processes and regulatory submissions is highly desirable.
• Excellent scientific writing skills for regulatory dossiers.
• Ability to critically evaluate study quality (GLP compliance, guideline adherence).

Interaction Complexity and Team Work

Interaction

Frequency

Purpose of Interaction

Internal:

• Other PI Development functions
• Local Development Teams
• R&D

As and when required

• Work closely with environmental fate, toxicology, regulatory affairs, R&D, and product stewardship teams

• support dossier preparations and submissions globally

• Consulting strategy in Phase 1 and 2
• Closely collaborate with CROs on progress of regulatory studies, upcoming issues and respective impacts on risk assessments

External:

• Regulatory authorities

• CROs

• Discuss dossier pre-/post-submission

• Steer study execution and timelines

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