Environmental Product Safety Specialist
Current Responsible for the environmental risk assessment of insecticides at LATAM in order to establish mitigation measures for the safe and sustainable use of agrochemicals and contributing to the business's sustainability strategies and initiatives; Responsible for coordinating and managing the demands of the cross-functional product safety area (30 people) and delivery to the internal client; Member of multidisciplinary projects with external stakeholders to develop research in the area… Show more Responsible for the environmental risk assessment of insecticides at LATAM in order to establish mitigation measures for the safe and sustainable use of agrochemicals and contributing to the business's sustainability strategies and initiatives; Responsible for coordinating and managing the demands of the cross-functional product safety area (30 people) and delivery to the internal client; Member of multidisciplinary projects with external stakeholders to develop research in the area of sustainability, environmental risk assessment and sustainable use of agrochemicals; Two-person direct management (monitoring, training, feedback, promotion and development plan); Team technical training (intern, new employees and third parties); Strategic discussions on the main technical and regulatory environmental trends in the agrochemical market in LATAM; Activities to disseminate and promote scientific influence; Environmental risk assessment of pesticides for pollinators according to the IBAMA Manual, 2020; Preparation of responses and technical justifications to requirements issued by regulatory bodies in Latin America (IBAMA, SENASA, SAG); Contracting ecotoxicological studies at national and international GLP laboratories; Monitoring of GLP ecotoxicological studies required for the registration of agrochemicals in LATAM and performed in accordance with OECD protocols; Experience with the main agrochemical exposure modeling tools for non-target organisms (AgDRIFT, BeeREX, T-Rex, SciGrow and PWC).Results achieved:- Several registrations and commercial submissions enabled with environmental regulatory bodies in Latin America for the Syngenta portfolio since 2019;- Technical defense of products based on the neonicotinoid Thiamethoxam in environmental re-evaluation by IBAMA;- Fluidity and agility in the delivery of demands to the internal client, contributing to speed up the registration of the Syngenta portfolio. Show less