Lead Scientist Formulations

Lead Scientist Formulations

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. 

In this role, you will:


* Provide formulation expertise and leadership for commercializing and maintaining formulations for North America and global wet wipes. 


* Focus on supporting North American wet wipe product development and manufacturing.


* Partner closely and work cross-functionally with KCNA R&E, Global Quality, Procurement, Maumelle and Beech Island. 


* Lead moderate to large projects and carry out accountabilities with a collaborative mindset ensuring visibility of progress/results to all key stakeholders.


* Lead the scale-up, commercialization and maintenance of formulations used to produce wet wipe products that meet consumer, quality, regulatory and compliance needs.


* Closely partner with Personal Care and Family Care R&E product development teams to ensure work meets project needs.

Build strong relationships with business partners to understand priorities and coordinate support. 


* Partner with Global, KCNA and Mill Quality teams supporting wet wipes manufacturing.  Maintain visibility of manufacturing performance and helps troubleshoot and address formulation-related issues.

Manage specifications and documentation associated with formulations.


* Work closely with Formulation Technical Leaders and Formulation Team Members to progress formulation business continuity activities.

Design and carry-out lab, pilot line and mill experiments and trials.


* Use detailed understanding of global mill Solution Mix processes to develop and execute plans for scale-up of formulations from lab to commercial-scale.


* Evaluate data and provides interpretation.  Make connections between formulations, product performance and aging/stability data.

Make recommendations on product development activities.


* Coach and mentor Lead Formulation Scientists and Business Unit Scientists. 

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’...