Engineering Technical Strategist

Engineering Technical Strategist

Job Description

You were made to do this work: designing new technologies, diving into data, optimizing digital experiences, and constantly developing better, faster ways to get results.

You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to building technology for a purpose that matters.

You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.  It starts with YOU. 

As an Engineering Technical Strategist for Kimberly-Clark, you will work in the North America Personal Care Research & Development team, reporting to the Huggies® D&C Senior Director.  In this role you will provide technical leadership and champion strategic initiatives, machine innovation expertise, develop asset strategies, champion continuous improvement activities, build capability and provide project support when needed.  This role will advise all levels of the organization, ensuring sound strategies for assets/equipment, development plans and ways of working.  Expectation of role will be to build strong technical depth in others as a vehicle for technical talent development, and at times will also provide strategic point of views to Executive Leadership Team members.  Scope of role will include leadership of broader activities across Kimberly-Clark North America segment R&D, Innovation Capability Teams, and Supply Chain teams. 

In this role, you will:


* Ensure engineering Innovation Capability Teams deliver machine innovation to support Personal Care business needs by being an indispensable technical partner with the Senior Director.


* Support Personal Care business goals by building strong depth of technical engineering expertise across the Personal Care Innovation Capability Team.


* Effectively influence Personal Care’s engineering strategies by building strong credibility with senior leaders using effective communication, strong business acumen, and a passion to continuously improve.


* Implement strategies to protect novel technology solutions to sustain identified advantage in market, including patents, trade secrets and other IP.


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


* Champion and lead Lean management practices through Lean thinking and work methods (visual management, problem solving, continuous improvement, and strategy deployment).


* Facilitate alignment for key decisions, work processes and roles/responsibilities as needed for assigned activities.


* Provide leadership by example in corporate safety, quality, diversity & inclusion, regulatory, product safety and sustainability.


* Manage self in accordance with the expected behaviors of the Kimberly-Clark Ways of Working. 

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