Senior Scientist - Projects

Senior Scientist - Projects

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.

In this role, you will:

• Serve as project lead for FC Household Care innovation projects.
• Lead cross-functional R&D team to deliver upon project goals.
• Create timeline with key milestones, drive adherence to the timeline, escalate as appropriate, identify and drive key learning.
• Collaborate cross-functionally, deliver programs with strong business cases through IMF.  Significant influence without authority required.
• Provide work direction, coach, and mentor members of the cross-functional R&D team.
• Protect and defend Kimberly-Clark proprietary products 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 junior team members in their documentation practices.
• Ensure all work complies with corporate safety, regulatory, product safety and sustainability requirements. 
• Interface effectively with the other work stream teams to ensure business success.
• Works closely with R&D, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, and Insights/Analytics teams, among others, to define and validate the product design that achieves project goals.
• Coach and mentor junior scientists and significantly influence without authority.

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.

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:

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university.
• 6+ years of experience in product development, technology development, project management.
• 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.
• Demonstrate ability to provide work direction to team members not in a direct reporting relationship.

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science related field.
• Prefer 10+ years of project leadership experience.
• Work experience across a range of Research & Engineering or Marketing disciplines.
• Strong understanding of Family Care products, brands, business, and technologies.

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.
 

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances