IFP R&D Compliance Team Leader

IFP R&D Compliance Team Leader

Job Description

IFP R&D Compliance Team Leader

Permanent, Full Time

Location: UK/ Walton Oaks

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.  

This new team leader will have a crucial role in the new IFP R&D organisation.

They will be  responsible for leading compliance and conformance of the IFP product portfolio towards internal and external standards and regulations and ensure we continue to drive excellence in the space of change management and compliance to protect our consumers and our business.

This is a unique opportunity to establish a new team and provide thought leadership in establishing the processes, ways of working and capabilities needed to succeed in this complex space.

The ideal candidate will be a strong leader with product development and/or quality experience together with consolidated team leadership experience, a passion for continuous improvement creating new systems and ways of working in an agile way and with the ability to influence the organization and propel progress especially in the absence of established processes / ways of working.

In this role, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

Innovation & Strategy Development:


* The R&D Compliance Team Leader will be the strategic functional lead responsible for understanding and shaping KC QRC requirements,  new legal requirements and directives and then defining how to incorporate these requirements into the IFP R&D ways of working and project execution using a risk based, proactive and preventative approach

Innovation & Program Development


* Defining work processes within the IFP R&D organisation to ensure his/her team connects seamlessly with the rest of R&D organisation while achieving the desired objectives of building our capability in the critical areas of compliance and supporting the broader R&D team to ensure we are working at the highest standards

Organisational Leadership


* Plays a leadership role in building the required capability in this evolving space across the full R&D team


* Partners with Quality/Regulatory organizations across Kimberly Clark to enable transparency & escalation of R&D quality and compliance issues


* Influences and educates customers and business partners on compliance best practices

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