Research Manager - Scott Bath®

Research Manager - Scott Bath®

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 the Research Manager, you will focus on leading strategic initiatives and projects with a broad scope encompassing front end innovation through commercialization.  This role provides technical program direction and leads a team to develop and commercialize innovation programs for the Scott® brand to drive growth.

In this role, you will:


* Lead a team of up to 8 direct reports to develop and commercialize product solutions to deliver unmet customer needs in the key segment areas. 


* Partner with business and market research team members to develop and execute plans to gather consumer insights in support of strategic business plan goals


* Lead and ensure product development meets consumer needs and helps ensure line of sight to process capability and visibility to capital and product supply constraints


* Develop product timelines and learning plans to integrate into project team to understand critical milestones and priorities


* Develop and manage the budget and resource forecast relating to projects


* Drive key business decisions relative to project launches, success criteria, approach, etc. 


* Effectively plan and complete product and project responsibilities on time. 


* Lead, coach, and mentor team members.


* Maintain technical and scientific expertise for Program Leader accountability.  Be able to communicate impact of technical developments for Kimberly-Clark.


* Travel up to 20% to various locations including manufacturing sites.

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 develo...