Senior Formulations Scientist

Senior Formulations 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. 

In this role, you will:

Provide formulation expertise and leadership for commercializing and maintaining formulations for North America and global wet wipes. This role resides within the KCNA Innovation Capabilities organization and will primarily be focused on supporting North American wet wipe product development and manufacturing. The role will partner closely and work cross-functionally with KCNA R&E, Global Quality, Procurement, Maumelle and Beech Island.  Leads moderate to large 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:

• Leads the scale-up, commercialization and maintenance of formulations used to produce wet wipe products that meet consumer, quality, regulatory and compliance needs.
• Closely partners with Personal Care and Family Care R&E product development teams to ensure work meets project needs. Builds strong relationships with business partners to understand priorities and coordinate support. 
• Partners with Global, KCNA and Mill Quality teams supporting wet wipes manufacturing.  Maintains visibility of manufacturing performance and helps troubleshoot and address formulation-related issues. Manages specifications and documentation associated with formulations.
• Works closely with Formulation Technical Leaders and Formulation Team Members to progress formulation business continuity activities. Designs and carries-out lab, pilot line and mill experiments as well as trials.
• Uses detailed understanding of global mill Solution Mix processes to develop and execute plans for scale-up of formulations from lab to commercial-scale.
• Evaluates data and provides interpretation. Makes connections between formulations, product performance and aging/stability data. Makes recommendations on product development activities.
• Coaches and mentors Lead Formulation Scientists and Business Unit Scientists. 

Influence:

• Leverage knowledge in formulation science, solution mix process and quality systems to commercialize wet wipe cosmetic products and maintain existing products.
• Collaborate with business unit R&E, Quality and Operations to successfully execute projects and mitigate risks.
• Interact with Mill Managers/Directors/VPs at least quarterly to provide clear updates on existing work and drive alignment on plans for future work.

Qualifications and Skills:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in a chemistry related discipline such as Chemistry, Food Science, or Chemical Engineering.
• 5+ years’ experience in a Research, Quality, or Manuf