Senior Product Scientist

Senior Product Scientist

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. 

The Senior Product Scientist will serve as a senior product developer on the Cottonelle® Dry Bath Product Development team.  This role will provide product leadership on the Dry Bath Tissue Team, ensuring successful development, commercialization and launch of products, building from consumer insights to product design and market launch, incorporating Sustainability initiatives throughout. This role will focus on the implementation of product insights through commercialization, as well as support for Life Cycle Management.  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® Dry Bath.

In this role, you will:

• Lead a cross-functional project 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, including sustainable fiber implementation and consult/support of the Dry Bath Tissue Business continuity initiatives.

• Partner with business and market research team members to develop and execute plans to gather consumer insights and drive product innovation in support of strategic business plan goals.

• 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. 

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 or university required; degree in engineering or a science-related field preferred
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in product development and/or project management required; 10+ years preferred.
• Proven track record of effectively communicating to and influencing leaders/team members across all levels of the organization.
• Prior experience leading projects from idea through execution.
• Ability to provide work direction and mentorship to team members who are not in a direct reporting relationship.
• Advanced knowledge and background in customer/consumer needs identification is desired
• Experience in project management/product development, particularly Development & Comm