Director, KCP R&D Restroom

Director, KCP R&D Restroom

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. 

As a Director for the KCP R&D Restroom business, you will be accountable for envisioning, developing, and commercializing end-to-end global innovation that delivers competitively advantaged products to delight customers and delivers global K-C Professional growth. 

In this role, you will:

• Be accountable for envisioning, developing, and commercializing global innovation that delivers competitively advantaged technologies, processes and products that delight our customers and delivers global K-C enterprise growth.  The scope of this role is end-to-end: from front end innovation to development, commercialization, and life cycle maximization.

• Core team member on both the KCP Global R&D leadership and the Washroom Global Leadership Teams, providing leadership to deliver the R&D plans for Washroom product needs within

• Create Strategic and Annual Business Plans through the savvy application of science and technology. 

• Develop and implement the Washroom Innovation, Technology, and Intellectual Property Strategy to deliver a robust product pipeline, as the primary driver of growth in our Strategic Business Plans over the next 3 years. 

• Indirectly manage internal customers during the global joint business planning process to prioritize innovation and synthesize to develop larger, platform big bets. 

• Ensure maximization of ROI on $8MM+ Washroom R&D Budget. 

• Partner with and works within KC one R&D to develop and share best practices 

• Collaborate with KCP R&D and FEI leaders to develop robust plans for KCP 

• Ensure alignment and delivery of regional innovation and renovation programs to drive business results. 

• Lead the stage gate innovation process for Washroom Category, including the management of the Washroom portfolio and contributing to overall process improvements. 

• Lead and develops talent of R&D Managers and a direct team.  Manages structure and flow of resources to maximize resources and investment. Provides indirect leadership to Regional R&D Managers. 

• Lead development of multiple technologies required to create a variety of Washroom products, including Bath Tissue, Towels, Facial Tissue, Skin Care Formulation and related Dispensers.  

• Build KCP R&D brand both internally and externally through key partnerships and industry alliances including a variety of industrial and academic development partners. 

• Partner with the KCP Supply Chain team and mills to ensure delivery of all key Annual Business Plan, especially to commercialize innovation and to deliver key cost savings programs at K-C internal and external contract manufacturers. 

• Core team member of Global One R&E leaders across the enterprise to ensure a holistic approach to talent development, maximizing our resources, adopt/apply and process improvements. 

• Accountability for managing, envisioning, and developing talent in numerous technical disciplines, including the following: Material development, Process development, Product development, Packaging engineering , Front-end innovation incubation, Materials and product testing, Industrial design 

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 dedi