Senior Toxicologist

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.

• 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.

• 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.

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 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…