Senior Scientist Product

Senior Scientist Product

Job Description

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

The Senior Scientist Product will provide product leadership for Discovery Innovation for Garments. As a member of the R&D Team, you’ll collaboratively lead product development and innovation through seed idea, MVC, MVP, and MVT ensuring a successful handover to D&C teams. This role will create ideas and develop learning plans to validate the innovation. You’ll work in conjunction with Research and Development Team Members and cross-functional partners from Marketing, Sales, I&A, and Global R&D and Marketing.  As a Senior Scientist, you’ll report to an R&D Manager and receive work direction from the Manager and Technical Leader.  This role will give work direction, coaching, and mentoring to 3-8 indirect team members.

In this role you will:

• Provide product leadership across the Garments Discovery programs and seed ideas

• Lead claims and Benefit Visualizations across Pull-Ups® and Goodnites® to bring our product benefits to life

• Working with the R&D project leads, Marketing, and I&A team as well as Personal Care R&E, develop learning plans and execute them, as well as mentor other more junior scientists on the team

• Lead the interaction with the Marketing team to ensure product design is meeting our concept and is on strategy

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

• Document key learnings and significant research findings in a searchable, retrievable format and coach junior team members in their documentation practices

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

• Interface effectively with the other work stream teams to ensure business success

• 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 professional 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

• 5+ years of experience in project management and/or product development   

• Proven track record of effectively communicating to and influencing leaders and team members across all levels of the R&E and cross-functional organization

• Experience with developing learning plans and executing consumer research

• Demonstrated ability to provide work direction to team members not in a direct reporting relationship

• Experience with consumer products

• Ability to travel 10-20%, in-country and/or international

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or apparel design related field

• 7+ years of relevant experience

• Experience in