Technical Strategist & Team Leader - Fiber

Technical Strategist & Team Leader - Fiber

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 Fiber Platform Leader, you will serve as technical strategist and team leader for Fiber within Family Care Research & Engineering (R&E).  You will provide technical leadership and champion the technical vision in the design, development, optimization, and commercialization of alternative/new fiber and process capabilities across the Family Care Professional machine asset base and technologies.  This role will also play an important role in setting the strategic vision for technical knowledge capability building in fibers of the future and focus Kimberly-Clark Family Care and Professional’s efforts on meeting and exceeding our sustainability goals.  You will serve as direct team leader to a group of dedicated project, process and product scientists responsible for executing our critical fiber projects.

In this role, you will:

• Conceive, develop, validate, translate and share consumer, environmental and sustainability focused needs into short, medium and long term fiber based solutions leading to new or improved products, supply chain, processes, materials, systems or scientific knowledge aligned with business unit objectives

• Coach and mentor team members to increase technical understanding and ability to execute programs to improve Family Care’s business results. 

• Support and lead Lean management practices through Lean thinking and work methods (visual management, problem solving, strategy deployment). 

• Implement strategies to protect novel technology solutions to sustain identified advantage in market. 

• Maintain technical and scientific expertise in an area of technology and communicate impact of developments on Kimberly-Clark.  

• Prepare and implement unit budgets and schedules.  Implement appropriate internal controls and standards. 

• Implement the documentation and report of unit work as required by Kimberly-Clark policy, effective communication, protection of proprietary information, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. 

• Protect and defend Kimberly-Clark proprietary technology, products, and business processes through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets. 

• Communicate appropriately with all customers, internal and external, conducting all communications and transactions with the utmost integrity and honesty to build an unimpeachable business reputation.

• Provide leadership by example in corporate safety, quality, regulatory, product safety and sustainability.  

• Ensure that all elements of the corporate Human Resources Development and Diversity policy are fully supported.  

• Manage self in accordance with the expected behaviors of the Kimberly-Clark Ways of Working.   

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.

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