Documentation Specialist within Product Safety

Do you want to contribute to the sustainable development of tomorrow´s hygiene and health products through product safety?
At Essity, our ambition is to increase health and hygiene standards across the world and in this role you will be a strong addition to the Product Safety team- where we offer you a challenging and developing job in a global company. Essity has many strong international brands, a genuine focus on sustainability, strong company culture and a positive atmosphere with motivated, competent, and high performing colleagues.
About the Role
Safety is an integral part of Essity’s sustainable business model and our strategy for growth and value creation. We are committed to offer products with the highest safety standards for human use throughout the product's life cycle. At Essity, we do not compromise on safety and we have experts in our product safety team taking care of that every day. In product safety, accurate, transparent, and efficient documentation is a critical part of the work, be it for regulatory purposes or to fulfil the high expectations of our consumers, customers, and other stakeholders.
For our team "Regulatory Affairs & Product Safety/ General Product Safety", we are seeking a colleague who will own the documentation of product safety-relevant data and documents for our global absorbent hygiene product range. The role will closely collaborate with the product safety specialists.
We're looking for people who embody our values, aren't afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We're always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we'd love to talk.
What You Will Do
· Compiling and collating product safety assessment-relevant data and documents from external and internal sources, e.g. suppliers, test institutes, procurement, R&D
· Uploading and structuring relevant data and documents into SAP/PLM or other systems, as applicable
· Being accountable for the formal correctness of the documentation
· Continuously improving data and document management for product safety
· Assisting with the collection and reporting of relevant documentation for internal and external stakeholders, both nationally and internationally
· Establishing and maintaining a product safety approval overview
· Assisting in Document Control & Change Control activities
· Supporting the product safety specialists in all questions regarding data and document management
· Being an expert user for product safety data and document management in digital systems.
Who You Are
You have a relevant degree (scientific and/or administrative) and/or professional experience with SAP/PLM-based document and data management with sound application knowledge of the underlying software system. The right candidate should preferably have experience with or affinity to chemical and toxicological content and you find your purpose in being part of a passionate product safety team
While the functional competencies are a prerequisite to fit the role, we more so put great value in your personal traits. To be successful at Essity and in this role you are accurate and reliable, at the same time willing to learn and continuously improve the processes and systems in which you are working. You are a good communicator, with high sense of collaboration. As you will come across a wide range of people at different levels in the organization, it is essential to have the ability to create and maintain relationships with colleagues.
You are a self-leading person who takes responsibility for your tasks and you get motivated by starting projects and taking initiatives. It is an advantage to have the ability to navigate in a high pace complex matrix organization as this will be your daily work environment, where changes are frequently occurrent. Since Essity is an international company, the role requires you to have both verbal and written skills in English.
Furthermore, you are a team player and you complement with your strengths in systems and applications (incl. MS Office applications) the expert skills of our product safety assessors.
Additional Information
Please apply online in English through our website at your earliest convenience but not later than deadline. The position will be located in our office in Gothenburg, Sweden. During Covid-19 restrictions, we have a mobile working policy.
What We Can Offer You
At Essity, we believe every career is as unique as the individual and empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.
Collaborative and Caring Culture | Empowerment & Engaged People | Work with Impact and A Powerful Purpose | Individual Learning & Career Growth | Health & Safety Priority | Sustainable Value Together| Innovation| Sustainable Working Life | Total Reward