Lead Scientist Product

Lead Scientist Product

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 Lead Product Scientist, you will work on a Research & Development team to identify and commercialize product and material optimization projects and support business continuity to meet consumer and business needs within the Family Care tissue business.  You will provide leadership within a team environment to drive quality, cost savings, design to value, and other optimization initiatives to support the Cottonelle bath tissue business and collaborate broadly inside the corporation with R&E, pilot plant, mill operations and with cross functional disciplines. 

In this role, you will:


* Coach and mentor team members to increase technical understanding and ability to execute programs to improve Family Care’s business results.


* Conceive, develop, validate, and share ideas leading to new or improved products, processes, materials, systems or scientific knowledge aligned with business unit objectives.


* Maintain technical and scientific expertise in an area of technology and communicate impact of developments on Kimberly-Clark.


* Prepare and implement unit budgets and schedules.  Implement appropriate internal controls and standards to ensure compliance with applicable policies, laws and regulations.


* Drive a culture of protected and documented innovation to protect and defend K-C proprietary technology, products, and business processes through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.


* Communicate appropriately and effectively with all customers, internal and external, conducting all communications and transactions with the utmost integrity


* Provide leadership by example in safety, ethics, quality, regulatory, and sustainability


* Manage self in accordance with expected One KC Behaviors

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.

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