Project Leader

Project Leader

Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

As the Project Leader, you will provide Project and Initiative leadership for the Research & Development AFC Tampons Product Stewardship Team in Global Research & Development.  You will be responsible for leading global projects of significant technical scope (sometimes simultaneously) including product development, materials development, process development and involves collaboration, coordination, and leadership with other functional team members (Marketing, Finance, Product Supply, Engineering, and Materials, etc).  You will also provide leadership to innovation programs, supply continuity, and cost saving programs across multiple regions.

In this role, you will:

• Provide project leadership for programs of significant technical scope and complexity across multiple regions in technical leadership and BU leadership

• Lead a team of 8-15 R&E and cross functional project team members and also be able to drive efforts individually

• Leads the cross functional team through innovative processes to solve problems and leverage creative thinking to define new technical approaches

• Successfully deliver fast paced projects in a timely, diligent, and professional manner, within defined scope, schedule, and resource authorization

• Coach and inspire others by managing technical and material development of team members within the projects

• Contribute to building and be a role model to an environment in which all team members are respected regardless of their individual differences and are motivated to improve and to achieve desired business results

• Lead efforts to coordinate and execute tampon innovation growth projects across global tampon manufacturing sites

• Carry out all work ensuring effective Safety and Quality practices and procedures.

• Seek, recognize, and define problems while leading cross functional teams to drive tampon innovation portfolio objectives forward

• Leverage project management tools such as LEAN principles, 4-Step Problem solving sessions, and rapid learning cycles

• Manage self in accordance with K-C Ways of working.

• Continued learning and coaching of project team members in the FDA regulated Class I and class II product development  space

• Lead projects while adhering to design control procedure for class II medical device and bringing projects to design control governance leadership team for approval

• Lead project communications through e-mail, project updates, and formal management reviews

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 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 or advanced degree in a scientific or engineering and 10 years of industry experience with at least 3 years or more in project leadership

• Extensive experience in project leadership product, material, or engineering development roles

• Ability to travel up to