Lead Scientist Product

Lead Scientist Product

Job Description

You were made to do this work: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real-world problems with purpose and precision. You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. In this role, you’ll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

As the Lead Product Scientist you will work on a Research & Development team to develop and commercialize new products and enhancements to existing products to meet consumer and business needs within the Family Care tissue business.  You will provide leadership within a team environment to drive initiatives to support the Cottonelle® dry bath tissue business and collaborate broadly inside the corporation with R&D, pilot plant, mill operations and with cross-functional disciplines. 

In this role, you will:

• Provide leadership by example in safety, ethics, quality, regulatory, and sustainability, and ensure that all elements of the corporate Human Resources Development and Diversity policy are fully supported.

• Manage self in accordance with expected One KC Behaviors. 

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

• Conceive, develop, validate, and share ideas leading to new or improved products, processes, materials, systems or scientific knowledge aligned with business unit objectives.

• 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 to ensure compliance with applicable policies, laws and regulations

• Drive a culture of protected and documented innovation to protect and defend K-C proprietary technology, products, and business processes through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.

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

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 R&D 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/university

• At least 3 years or more of experience in product development, technology development, executing consumer and/or technical/scientific studies

• Strong communication skills and ability to influence leadership across all levels of the R&D and cross-functional organization

• Demonstrated strengths in some of these areas: scientific experiment methods/analysis, planning/organizing, developing learning plans, comprehension of technical literature and executing consumer research

• Demonstrated ability to provide work direction to team members not in a direct reporting relationship

• 15-25% travel