Senior Scientist - Projects

Senior Scientist - Projects

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. 

Senior Scientist - Projects will serve as a senior Project Leader on the Cottonelle® Flushable Wipes team. This role will provide project leadership, ensuring successful development, commercialization and launch of products, building from consumer insights to product design and market launch. This role will work in conjunction with R&D team members and cross-functional partners from Marketing, Sales,

Supply Chain, Quality and Manufacturing to execute projects. This role reports to the R&D Senior Manager for Cottonelle® Flushable Wipes.

In this role, you will:

Serve as the project and process leader for medium to large projects for the Cottonelle® dry bathroom tissue business. This role will provide cross functional project leadership to ensure successful commercialization and launch of products that meet project success criteria and business financial goals through IMF, including primary point of coordination and interface with Research and Engineering, Marketing, Product Supply, Supply Chain, Finance, Go-to-Market, Sales, and Mill Operations.

· Drive alignment across functional areas and gain alignment from business team on the approach/milestones for project.

· Drive key business decisions relative to project launch timelines, success criteria and resourcing

· Provide direction and coaching to project team members and junior members of the team in the same area of discipline.

· Effectively plan and complete project responsibilities on time.

· Ensure communication of project plans and results to internal stakeholders and other team members.

· Provide protection to technologies and products through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.

· Lead a cross-functional R&D team to deliver project goals, identifying and driving learning plans, managing project timelines, and driving adherence to key dates/deliverables to ensure project is on-track.

· Lead programs focused on the development and commercialization of tissue innovation.

· Work closely with Supply Chain, Marketing and Finance teams, among others, to achieve project goals; significant influence without authority required.

· Provide work direction, while coaching and mentoring members of the cross-functional R&D team. · Ensure all work complies with Corporate Safety, Regulatory, Product Safety, and Quality requirements. · Document knowledge and report research and development work as required by R&D policy and IP needs.

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:

Required:

· Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college/university

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

· Proven track record of effectively commu