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. 

In this role, you will:

The Senior Scientist - Projects will lead Research and Development (R&D) projects specific to Child Care Develop and Commercialize (D&C) tea, for Pull-Ups® and Goodnites® projects and innovation initiatives for Kimberly-Clark, North America (KCNA). As a member of the R&D Team, this individual will collaboratively lead projects through the Innovation Management Framework (stages and gates process), building on consumer insights to develop and launch.  This role will work in conjunction with R&D Baby and Child Care (BCC) Product, Process, Materials, and Engineering team members and cross-functional partners from Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality and Manufacturing. The incumbent reports to an R&D Manager and receives work direction from the Manager, Director and Technical Leaders.  This role I largely self-direction but will give work direction, coaching, and mentoring to 3-10 indirect team members.

• Lead cross-functional R&D teams to deliver upon project goals.  Work with Project Team to identify and drive learning plans, manage and drive adherence to timelines, manage a budget, drive adherence to success criteria and escalate as appropriate to ensure projects are on-track.
• Work with cross-functional partners to deliver programs with strong business cases though the Innovation Management Framework and regularly present to Senior Leaders in committee forums. 
• Works closely with Marketing, Manufacturing, and Finance teams, among others, to achieve project goals; significant influence without authority required.
• Provide work direction, coach, and mentor members of the cross-discipline R&D team.
• Ensure all work complies with Corporate Safety, Regulatory, Product Safety, and Quality requirements. 
• Protect and defend Kimberly-Clark proprietary product and technology through the appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.
• Document key learnings and significant research findings in a searchable, retrievable format and coach project teams in documentation practices.
• Interface effectively with the other work stream teams to ensure business success.
• Ensure all work complies with corporate safety, regulatory, product safety, and sustainability 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:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering or relevant scientific or project management discipline and 5+ years of experience
• Broad experiences in product development and/or project management, process development or material development
• Proven track record of effectively communicating to and influencing leaders and team members across all levels of the R&D and c