R&E Sr Manager

R&E Sr Manager

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.

In this role, you will:

• Own the process for material and technology development and commercial execution for Huggies product innovations

• Lead a team of R&D engineers and scientists to ensure excellence in delivering technology development and execution for Huggies product innovation

• Lead a team to co-develop the startup protocols for new machines and commercialization of product innovation

• Partner with Discovery, Innovation Capability, Procurement and Supply Chain teams to ensure full innovation delivery

• Providing effective leadership, determine customer expectations and manage resources

• Partner with key external customers including - Technical Service Providers, OEM partners and External Contract Manufacturers

• Lead a team of up to 14 direct reports and 10 indirect members to develop and commercialize material and technology solutions to deliver product innovations that address unmet customer needs in the key segment areas

• Provide people leadership to include talent development, performance management, compensation planning and organizational effectiveness

• Lead, coach, and mentor team members to execute material and technology development work and improve Huggies diapers business results

• Drive key business decisions relative to project launches, success criteria, approach, etc. 

• Support the startup protocols for capital projects, problem tracking and issue resolution around these technologies

• Ensure all work complies with corporate safety, regulatory, product safety and sustainability requirements

• Protect and defend K-C proprietary technology and products through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets and effective protection of proprietary information. Challenge competitive intellectual property to ensure right to practice for K-C technologies and products

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.

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:

• A Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or engineering discipline

• 10 years or more of experience at a production facility and/or KC business unit in a technical, scientific, or engineering role with at least 5 years or more of research and development experience with emphasis of process/material development

• 1 year or more of people leadership experiences

• Experience with consumer product / technology development for commercialization

• An understanding of Engineering, Process Development and Capital Execution Practices

• Technical knowledge and experience combined with demonstrated ability to lead and direct an R&D team and projects to meet business objectives.

• Ability to drive decision making at all levels within the organization.

• Ability to lead and facilitate problem solving across teams to achieve desir