Job Description:
Global Director of Product Safety
Huntsman is seeking a Global Director of Product Safety supporting the Division Name Division located in Location. This position will report directly to Sr. Vice President for Environmental, Health & Safety.
Job ScopeThe Global Director of Product Safety will provide enterprise leadership for Product Safety by owning global governance, standards, and compliance-enabling systems. The role ensures consistent regulatory execution, proactive risk management, and effective product stewardship across all businesses and regions, while aligning corporate functions, operations, and R&D to support compliant growth and business continuity. This role is a member of the Global EHS Leadership team.
Role Dimensions
Geographic: Global responsibility across all business units, sites, and regions.
People Leadership: Leads a global leadership organization of 6 direct reports; recruits, develops, and mentors senior Product Safety leaders. Global Product Safety organization includes approximately 60 associates.
Financial: Accountable for all global budgets related to Product Safety governance, systems, external platforms, and specialist consulting support.
Systems & Data: Enterprise ownership of product compliance systems, processes, and data frameworks.
Governance & Standards Leadership
Own and govern global Product Safety standards, policies, and procedures, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, and business strategy.
Define enterprise decision rights, approval authorities, and governance mechanisms to ensure consistent application of standards across regions and business units.
Maintain oversight of product stewardship and lifecycle risk management practices.
Provide enterprise oversight of compliance assurance, including regulatory applicability, risk-based prioritization, performance monitoring, and early escalation to prevent business, audit, or board-level surprises, while enabling site and regional teams to retain execution ownership.
Regulatory Compliance & Advocacy
Provide strategic leadership for global product safety regulatory compliance, including emerging and high-risk regulatory developments.
Establish and oversee regulatory horizon-scanning and issue-management processes to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate enterprise regulatory risks.
Systems, Processes & Digital Enablement
Own enterprise compliance-enabling systems and processes, including product safety, regulatory registration, and SDS/labeling.
Define and govern global process guardrails to ensure scalable, auditable, and compliant execution of activities such as new product introduction and product changes.
Lead external platform and vendor governance, including scope definition, performance management, and budget oversight.
Leadership, Capability & Incident Oversight
Lead and chair Product Safety leadership forums, driving alignment, accountability, and execution across regions and functions.
Build organizational capability through role clarity, competency frameworks, leadership development, and training in partnership with HR and functional leaders.
Set enterprise expectations for product safety incident response, escalation, and learning to ensure consistent stewardship and continuous improvement.
Key Interfaces
Executive leadership and enterprise functions (EHS, Operations, R&D, Manufacturing Excellence, IT, Finance).
Regional and functional Product Safety leaders.
Legal, Compliance, and Internal Audit.
External regulatory bodies, industry associations, and trade groups.
External vendors, consultants, and digital platform providers.
You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.
The candidate must have an unrestricted right to work for Huntsman in the United States.
Minimum QualificationsExperience required
A minimum of at least 10 years’ experience as a Senior leader in Health & Safety, Product Safety, or Product Stewardship within a complex, global organization.
Excellent leadership skills: Demonstrated ability to lead a global product safety organization by inspiring a high performing team and drive cross functional alignment.
Deep understanding of global product safety regulatory frameworks and compliance systems.
Demonstrated experience establishing governance models, enterprise standards, and compliance-enabling systems.
Proven ability to lead through influence in matrixed organizations and align diverse stakeholders.
Highly effective verbal and written communication skills and effective presentation skills.
Proven track record in serving as an effective business partner with a diverse group of business leaders.
Experience representing organizations in external regulatory, industry, or advocacy settings.
Huntsman is proud to promote equal opportunity in the workplace All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, or any other protected characteristic.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage (medical/dental/vision) and EAP are consistently described as solid, with multiple plan options cited. Strong health benefits are frequently highlighted as a relative strength in the total package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with employer contributions and equity through a stock incentive plan, with legacy pension arrangements for some groups. Retirement features are repeatedly referenced as a positive component of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and floating days are described as good to very good in many roles. Vacation accrual is said to increase with seniority in some locations.
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Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals with 2019 revenues of approximately $7 billion. Our chemical products number in the thousands and are sold worldwide to manufacturers serving a broad and diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets. We operate more than 70 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 9,000 associates within our four distinct business divisions. We view our customers as valued partners. That’s why we believe in a collaborative approach to client relations and work directly with our customers to develop new chemical components that meet their unique needs. Our dedication to our customers is matched only by our dedication to the environment. As part of our commitment to bettering the industry, we strive to operate safe, clean, efficient facilities in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. This means actively seeking opportunities to leverage our resources to assist those in need around the world. It’s all part of our growth-driven approach, which reflects the spirit of free enterprise and is centered on creating mutual benefits for customers, employees, suppliers and the communities where we work.
