Global Senior Toxicologist
Pubblicato il 03-10-2026 - Ferrero in Italia
About the Role:
As Global Senior Toxicologist, you will be part of the Food Safety & Quality department and be the Group subject matter expert on toxicological food safety risks, especially contaminants, directly reporting to Food Safety & Product Integrity Manager.
Main Responsibilities:
By covering this position, you will monitor external scientific, technical and regulatory evolutions in the field of chemical Food Safety (e.g. environment and process contaminants) applying horizon scanning best practices. Moreover, you will leverage on new developments when relevant and evaluate potential business impact enabling science-based and informed business decisions.
You will drive the risk anticipation process from risk identification to risk mitigation, to ensure all emerging or evolving risks are managed properly, by involving all the required functions and deliver risk assessments in all circumstances.
You implement new state-of-the-art toxicological assessment methodologies and tools to conduct a robust risk analysis across the value chain enabling science-based decisions to predict and prevent potential Food Safety issues.
Conducting risk assessments on the field of chemical safety, you will support product design, sourcing, manufacturing, also in case of crisis and incidents to enable informed business decisions. Collaboration with cross-functional teams will be key to provide toxicological expertise throughout the whole product life cycle. In this role, you will create, develop and nurture a scientific external network and strong partnerships, being up to date with scientific evolutions, studies and emerging risks. You will support the creation of a global scientific engagement strategy on Food Safety topics as well as the building of a scientific Advisory Board composed of internationally recognized experts to create and maintain state-of-the art expertise within the Group. In relation to this, you will represent the Group in worldwide Food Safety and selec