Senior Scientist, Competitive Intelligence

Senior Scientist, Competitive Intelligence

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. 

The Senior Scientist, Global R&D Competitive Intelligence plays a critical role in advancing Kimberly-Clark’s understanding of the competitive landscape.

This role provides technical leadership in benchmarking internal and competitive products, codifying best-in-class design elements, and generating data-supported insights that guide innovation, cost optimization, and consumer-centric design decisions. This is a high-impact role for someone eager to operate at the intersection of data, design, and strategy.

The ideal candidate brings experience with data automation and AI-driven analysis to accelerate insight generation, improve benchmarking efficiency, and enable smarter product decisions.  You’ll help shape global product direction by delivering analysis that challenges assumptions, identifies opportunities, and influences critical R&D decisions. This role offers broad exposure, cross-functional collaboration, and visibility to senior leadership – ideal for those who are intellectually curious, action – oriented, and passionate about driving meaningful outcomes.

This role is part of a collaborative, purpose-driven team that values intellectual curiosity, analytical excellence, and practical impact.

You will report to a Senior Manager known for transparency, growth-minded coaching, and fostering cross-functional alignment to get real results.

There is an expectation for global travel of ~ 30% and flexibility to work across global time zones.

In this role you will:


* Execute and support benchmarking programs that evaluate the performance, cost, and consumer perception of competitive and internal products within the Adult & Feminine Care (AFC) and Baby & Child Care (BCC) categories.


* Support the development of the “Mind the Gap” strategic framework by synthesizing data across technical, consumer, and economic dimensions to identify areas of opportunity or advantage.


* Collaborate cross-functionally with R&D, Marketing, Product Stewardship, Finance, Supply Chain, and Legal to contextualize insights, ensure alignment, and influence key development decisions.


* Integrate consumer feedback, lab testing, and technical analysis to produce compelling, insight-rich reports that are consumable by senior leaders and cross-functional teams.


* Build product, material, and cost understanding to support trade-off decisions that advance product performance, protect the consumer experien...