Toxicology Director

About the job

The Toxicology Director leads, develops, and establishes the global toxicology strategy, including support for chemical registration, hazard communication, sustainability initiatives, and emerging regulatory requirements. The Toxicology Director ensures that broad deliverables are met for the corporate Toxicology function, including managing relationships with internal businesses and external parties, providing leadership and strategic vision, allocating resources, and managing talent within the organization.  The Toxicology Director is a board-certified toxicologist who manages a small team of toxicologists and eco-toxicologists.

Responsibilities

MANAGEMENT

• Hire, coach, and support toxicologists and ecotoxicologists, and toxicology leaders.
• Drive alignment of Toxicology team roles and responsibilities across interacting teams and functions within Product Stewardship and the businesses.
• Assign priorities and allocate resources to ensure goals and company strategies are met. Recommend priorities for partnership organizations (R&D, government affairs, IT etc.).
• Complete performance evaluations and goals. Actively manage development plans to ensure effective succession planning
• Coach and develop the Toxicology team; identify skill gaps, create development plans, provide feedback, and address performance issues proactively.
• Build organizational capability in toxicology, ecotoxicology, risk assessment, and computational toxicology tools.
• Promote engagement with scientific societies and external organizations to ensure the team remains current with scientific developments and industry best practices.

TOXICOLOGY SUPPORT

• Direct toxicological and ecotoxicological assessments originating from a wide range of sources, including portfolio reviews, alternatives assessments for specific chemicals, enterprise initiatives, advocacy campaigns, and toxicological or regulatory inquiries.
• Direct teams responsible for toxicology and ecotoxicology support for global chemical registration and notification programs.
• Oversee placement and management of toxicology and ecotoxicology studies through contract research organizations and review study outcomes with the team.
• Provide leadership for product hazard evaluation and classification processes. Ensure teams deliver robust risk assessments, support hazard communication systems and SDS classification methodologies, provide regulatory interpretations, and maintain compliance with global regulatory requirements.
• Support legal actions, as needed.
• Represent Sherwin-Williams on Boards of Directors for professional organizations, as appropriate.

CUSTOMER AND BUSINESS SUPPORT

• Partner with Product Stewardship, Sustainability, R&D, Marketing, Legal, and Government Affairs leadership to ensure effective toxicology practices.
• Provide timely and accurate analysis of potential toxicology impacts of new business opportunities, including support of stage gate reviews during new product commercialization.
• Act independently to achieve enterprise objectives. Partner with cross-functional leadership to lead, develop, and ensure execution of Toxicology strategy and broader deliverables to support the overall enterprise strategy and operations.
• Collaborate with senior or executive business and functional leaders so that they anticipate, identify, and assess emerging toxicology trends and benefit from the insights provided by the Toxicology organization.
• Provide toxicology training to key stakeholders.

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT

• Identify and drive continuous improvement projects that bring efficiency or cost savings across the Toxicology function and within partnership operations.
• Align resources to support simultaneoulsy all critical business projects, including acquisitions, divestitures, plant closures, technology transfers, or other.
• Act as functional lead for IT or other cross-functional projects with significant global or financial impact. Responsibilities may include project management, project design, communications, and operational planning.
• Lead highly complex toxicology or cross-functional projects with visibility to executive leadership.
• Serve as functional expert.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement in Toxicology by building cross-training and capability development into everyday work; encourage mentorship, boost team flexibility, and help keep compliance programs strong and sustainable over time.
• Drive advancement of predictive toxicology and QSAR capabilities.

This position is not hybrid/remote.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future, including conversion to H1-B visa.

*Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships. *

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in toxicology or related field (biology, pharmacology, public health, or chemistry) from an accredited institution
• 10+ years’ experience in toxicology, product safety, product stewardship, regulatory affairs or technical function
• Experience in coatings, chemicals or materials industry
• Experience in professional or trade association working groups
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
• Project leadership of cross functional, large-scale, and global projects or initiatives
• Excellent presentation skills, including experience presenting to external and executive leadership audiences

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in toxicology from an accredited institution
• Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology
• 15+ years’ experience in toxicology or product safety
• Prior experience managing staff

About Us

At Sherwin-Williams, our purpose is to inspire and improve the world by coloring and protecting what matters. Our paints, coatings and innovative solutions make the places and spaces in our world brighter and stronger. Your skills, talent and passion make it possible to live this purpose, and for customers and our business to achieve great results. Sherwin-Williams is a place that takes its stability, growth and momentum and translates it to possibility for our people. Our people are behind the strength of our success, and we invest and support you in:

Life … with rewards, benefits and the flexibility to enhance your health and well-being Career … with opportunities to learn, develop new skills and grow your contribution Connection … with an inclusive team and commitment to our own and broader communities It's all here for you... let's Create Your Possible

At Sherwin-Williams, part of our mission is to help our employees and their families live healthier, save smarter and feel better. This starts with a wide range of world-class benefits designed for you. From retirement to health care, from total well-being to your daily commute—it matters to us. A general description of benefits offered can be found at http://www.myswbenefits.com/. Click on “Candidates” to view benefit offerings that you may be eligible for if you are hired as a Sherwin-Williams employee.

Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case and will impact where actual compensation may fall within the stated wage range. The wage range listed for this role takes into account the wide range of factors considered in making compensation decisions including skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. The wage range, other compensation, and benefits information listed is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws including with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act where applicable.

Sherwin-Williams is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.  All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, marital status or any other consideration prohibited by law or by contract.

As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, Sherwin-Williams requests state and local employment services delivery systems to provide priority referral of Protected Veterans.

Please be aware, Sherwin-Williams recruiting team members will never request a candidate to provide a payment, ask for financial information, or sensitive personal information like national identification numbers, date of birth, or bank account numbers during the application process.

Additional Information

• Job Identification: 2627179
• Job Category: EHS
• Posting Date: 2026-10-23
• Apply Before: 2026-10-31
• Employment Category: Full-time regular
• Relocation Package: Yes, Within Company Policy
• Salary Frequency: Annually
• Minimum Salary: 130,506.74
• Maximum Salary: 169,667.41