Senior Product Scientist

Senior Product Scientist

Job Description

You were made to do this work: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real-world problems with purpose and precision. You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. In this role, you’ll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

As a Senior Product Scientist, you will be working on the Front End of Innovation (FEI) leading the identification and development of early stage product improvement ideas/concepts for Kleenex feeding the FEI Funnel, and chartering projects through the FEI council and transitioning to our IMF Stage gate process. You will work in conjunction with product development team members, marketing Strategy & Innovation, marketing research Insights & Analytics, and other cross-functional teams.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the R&E Innovation Process to identify and develop product improvement opportunities for Kleenex.

• Manage Front End of Innovation (FEI) funnel projects to meet deadlines, success criteria and budgets.

• Complete one-page documents on funnel ideas and present them to a steering team for endorsement.

• Incorporate benefit hierarchy, brand foundational tools, fundamentals, competitive insights and category/consumer insights into funnel idea development.

• Employ innovative approaches based on available scientific knowledge to projects from front end to transition to commercialization teams.

• Provide leadership to the FEI lab and driving prototype development.

• Provide leadership to the development of claims, demos and visualizations of the benefits of our products.

• Ensure that funnel ideas and development work is documented, stored, accessible and communicated.

• Support customer facing initiatives to optimize business results.

• Protect and defend K-C proprietary product and technology through the appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.

• Share, adopt, and adapt concepts, innovation, and product solutions from the globe/regional partners.

• Ensure all work complies with Corporate Safety, Regulatory, Product Safety, and Quality requirements.

•  Interface effectively with the other work stream teams to ensure business success. · Coach and mentor junior scientists

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our R&D roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university and 5 years of experience in product development, technology development, executing consumer and/or technical/scientific studies

• Strong communication skills and ability to influence leadership across all levels of the R&E and cross-functional organizations

• Demonstrated strengths in the areas of: scientific experiment methods/analysis, planning/organizing, developing learning plans, comprehension of technical literature and executing consumer research