Director - North America Innovation Capabilities

Director - North America Innovation Capabilities

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.  

Lead and further develop the current capabilities of the NA R&D Innovation Capabilities team to support teams across categories (Baby and Child Care, Adult and Feminine Care, Family Care and Professional products).  Our capabilities include physical testing, human subject testing, digital systems and tool activation, innovation testing and experimental facilities.

The vision for this team is to expand the reach and influence of this organization to establish it as a strong innovation partner focused on advancing relevant innovation capabilities in support of the KCNA innovation agenda.

In this role, you will:


* Lead all activities related to analytical, compliance testing, physical testing, human subject testing, digital systems and tools activation, and innovation testing across Kimberly-Clark North America


* Support development and execution of Kimberly-Clark North America's overall innovation pipeline through testing deployment.  Monitor and make visible progress against corporate business goals.  Identify and recommend solutions to further progress against these goals (improved cycle times, efficiency, etc) visible.


* Bring a strategic and compelling vision for the future while developing and implementing the systems, tools and processes necessary to build new organizational innovation capabilities


* Lead the Family Care Pilot Developmental facility (X-mill) while broadening facility capability in-line with future innovation plans.


* Drive increased use of open innovation through increased connection and collaboration with external partners and BU innovation teams.


* Drive use of data analytic capabilities to build predictive models to enable virtual screening of products and materials.  


* Lead activation of Digital Systems and tools strategy for KCNA R&D regional teams

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...