Senior Toxicologist

The Role

Join Imperial Brands, a global FMCG organisation with 25,000 colleagues across the world and help shape the future of responsible product innovation. As our Senior Toxicologist, you will play a pivotal role in leading toxicology and scientific decision-making across our tobacco and Next Generation Products (NGP) portfolio. You'll provide expert leadership on product stewardship, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance, while managing a team of toxicologists to deliver high-quality scientific assessments that support commercialisation and uphold our commitment to product safety. This is an exciting opportunity to influence business-critical decisions, drive continuous improvement, and help ensure our approaches remain aligned with the latest scientific developments, regulatory expectations, and emerging business opportunities.

If you're a passionate scientific leader looking to make a meaningful impact on a global scale, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help shape the future of product stewardship at Imperial Brands.

Principle Accountabilities

• Lead, develop and performance-manage a team of toxicologists, setting priorities, building capability and ensuring resources are aligned with business needs and future growth.
• Drive excellence in Product Stewardship Toxicology, owning processes, standards and governance frameworks to deliver effective, compliant and continuously improving outcomes.
• Oversee the design and implementation of refined risk assessment models, continuously improving approaches to support regulatory requirements and business objectives.
• Provide expert scientific guidance on consumer safety, product compliance and emerging toxicological risks, supporting both internal stakeholders and regulatory reporting activities.
• Represent Imperial Brands as a scientific leader, monitoring industry scientific developments, leading the interpretation of new regulations and engaging with external industry groups and scientific networks.

Skills and Experience Required

• Postgraduate-qualified Toxicologist (or closely related scientific discipline) with at least five years' experience in a commercial, industrial or regulatory toxicology environment, and eligible for European Registered Toxicologist status (or working towards it).
• Proven ability to lead, coach and develop scientific professionals, with the ability to prioritise team workloads and balance competing business, scientific and regulatory demands.
• Strong track record of leading scientific programmes and complex risk assessments, with the ability to critically review scientific literature and explain what emerging developments mean for business decisions.
• Able to translate complex scientific information into clear, practical recommendations for technical and non-technical audiences, including senior management.
• Able to work independently, exercising sound scientific judgement and delivering accurate outputs within demanding timelines.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to influence decisions across functions and levels and to represent the organisation externally.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.