Lead Scientist Formulations

Lead Scientist Formulations

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 Global Research & Development (GR&D) Wipes Lead Scientist Formulations – Front End Innovation provides formulation expertise and leadership for developing technologies and formulations for global wet wipes and dry tissue.  This role resides within the GR&D Wipes Product Steward organization and will primarily be focused on supporting global wet wipe and dry tissue product development. This role partners closely with GR&D, KCNA R&D, Global Quality, Marketing, EHS and Segment R&D teams.  

In this role, you will:

• Leads formulation development projects that meet consumer, quality, product safety and compliance needs. Delivers formulations per project timelines and IMF commitments.
• Develops creative technical solutions based on consumer insights, leveraging published scientific research, patent art, and deep understanding of cosmetic raw materials and formulation stability fundamentals.
• Works closely with Formulation Technical Leader and Formulation Team members to progress formulation development activities and design/carry-out lab experiments.
• Closely partners with Global and Regional R&D product development and Marketing teams to ensure work meets project needs. Builds strong relationships with at least one business to coordinate support.  
• Considers impact of new technologies on quality and manufacturing. Works with D&C to develop line-of-sight to commercial implementation at K-C or external facilities. 
• Evaluates data and provides interpretation.  Makes connections between formulations, product performance and aging/stability data. Makes recommendations on product development activities.
• Communicates complicated technical information in a clear and engaging manner to non-technical audiences and builds credibility to gain buy-in on recommendations.
• Develops new technologies (or re-purpose technologies) and apply those technologies to deliver consumer-relevant benefits to meet business priorities.
• Leads/supports projects and carries out accountabilities with a collaborative mindset ensuring visibility of progress/results to all key stakeholders.

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 in a chemistry related discipline such as Chemistry, Biology, Food Science, or Chemical Engineering; and 2+ years’ experience in a Research, Quality, or Manufacturing function or PhD.
• Experience leading small to moderate sized projects; Experience working in a chemical laboratory and expertise in lab practices.
• Basic understanding of experimental design, statistics and data analysis concepts; Basic experience with Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Technical expertise in formulati