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This is a unique opportunity to lead and develop a team of technical Subject Matter Experts supporting product compliance, sustainable design, market access, and customer trust. This role will partner across R&D, Business Units, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Legal, Government Relations, Sales, and Marketing to ensure HP products meet evolving regulatory, customer, and sustainability expectations.

As a Product Stewardship Manager, you will lead a team of technical experts supporting product development, regulatory compliance, sustainable design, and customer-facing stewardship requirements. Using the Design for Environment (DfE) framework, you will help ensure HP products are designed and maintained to meet evolving regulatory expectations, customer use cases, and business sustainability objectives.

You will be responsible for coaching and developing team members, managing execution across priorities, and partnering with cross-functional teams to resolve technical and regulatory challenges. This role requires the ability to balance day-to-day delivery with longer-term capability building, process improvement, and proactive risk mitigation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Stewardship SMEs, regulatory experts, toxicologists, labeling specialists, and related technical contributors.

• Create an accountable and customer-focused team culture that delivers consistent business and compliance outcomes.

• Support product design and development by partnering with R&D and Business Units to "design in" compliance, sustainability, safety, and customer value during New Product Innovation.

• Guide technical work related to product stewardship, product labeling, chemical assessments, customer use cases, usage parameters, testing, and compliance validation.

• Ensure current products continue to meet regulatory and market access requirements as products, ingredients, formulations, supply chains, and global regulations change.

• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to resolve product stewardship issues, support business decisions, and enable practical, timely solutions.

• Translate regulatory, customer, and market requirements into clear actions for technical teams and business partners.

• Contribute to external responses for customers, regulators, government stakeholders, and other key audiences with clarity, accuracy, and credibility.

• Drive continuous improvement in stewardship processes, data quality, tools, automation, and operating practices to improve efficiency, consistency, and execution quality.

• Help identify emerging regulatory or market pressures and support proactive planning to reduce risk and maintain customer trust.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate strength in the following areas:

• Builds, coaches, and develops technical teams with a focus on capability, engagement, accountability, and delivery.

• Creates an inclusive environment where team members understand priorities, own outcomes, and grow their technical depth.

• Provides clear direction while empowering SMEs to solve complex problems and influence business outcomes.

• Drives disciplined execution across multiple priorities, stakeholders, and product timelines.

• Converts complex requirements into clear plans, actions, and measurable outcomes.

• Maintains focus on delivery quality, compliance readiness, and customer/business commitments.

• Brings strong technical curiosity and willingness to engage directly in problem-solving.

• Understands product stewardship, regulatory compliance, sustainability, chemical management, labeling, or related technical disciplines.

• Can work with SMEs to evaluate tradeoffs, resolve issues, and support practical product and compliance decisions.

• Understands how product stewardship enables customer trust, market access, and product differentiation.

• Translates customer use cases and regulatory expectations into actionable design, compliance, and support requirements.

• Helps position stewardship and compliance as enablers of business continuity, customer confidence, and long-term product value.

• Builds effective partnerships across R&D, Business Units, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Legal, Government Relations, Sales, Marketing, and other stakeholders.

• Communicates complex technical and regulatory topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Supports business cases for stewardship, sustainability, and compliance investments when needed.

• Experience leading, coaching, or developing technical contributors or cross-functional teams.

• Background in product stewardship, regulatory compliance, sustainability, chemical management, environmental science, engineering, toxicology, product safety, or a related discipline.

• Strong execution skills with demonstrated ability to manage priorities, drive alignment, and deliver results in a complex environment.

• Ability to translate technical, regulatory, and customer requirements into practical business and product actions.

• Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex topics clearly to business partners, technical teams, and external stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively across functions and influence without relying solely on authority.

• Experience supporting product development, New Product Innovation, product labeling, chemical assessments, regulatory submissions, customer inquiries, or market access requirements.

• Experience working with global teams, global regulations, or multi-region compliance requirements.

• Familiarity with Design for Environment, sustainable product design, product lifecycle management, or compliance data systems.

• Experience improving processes, tools, data quality, or automation within a technical or regulatory function.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Toxicology, Sustainability, Regulatory Affairs, or a related field; advanced degree preferred but not required

Disclaimer

This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

Salary

The pay range for this role is$105,050to$161,800USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Benefits:
HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including;
• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

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