Lead Scientist - Material

Lead Scientist - Material

Job Description

Your Job:
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 your Lead Scientist - Material role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

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.

Job Requirements:

We are seeking a Materials Lead to support the Personal Care sector in Neenah, Wisconsin.

This role is a member of the Research and Engineering (R&E) team, developing and implementing new product, process, material, or technology concepts.

This role will work with fast moving Personal Care consumable products.

The incumbent reports to a Team Leader and receives direction in the form of specific project and innovation pipeline objectives.



* Collaborate with product teams to understand business innovation plans.

Utilize the business innovation plans to lead development specifically in the absorbent system. 



* Work with product developers, process engineers, corporate research, and other materials scientists to develop for commercialization new and/or improved materials for the absorbent system.      


* Provide project leadership in the design...