EM R&D Innovation Engineering Lead

EM R&D Innovation Engineering Lead

Job Description

EM R&D Innovation Engineering Lead

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you.

You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story.

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:

Summary of position

The EM R&D Materials Development Team Leader plays a critical role to deliver Kimberly-Clark Enterprise Market (EM) results.

This role responsible for partnering with the cross-functional team leaders to set 0-3 years innovation plans, cost transformation and sustainability plans in EM.

Delivering the innovation plans on time with highest quality and the best cost – as well as managing the R&D team and priorities across EM organization to ensure fast and max adoption (from other regions and across the region) considering supply complexity and financial optimization.

Develop solutions to address key local markets challenges/opportunities that can’t be adopted.

This role reports to EM R&D Capability team leader.

This role requires a highly collaborative individual living the performance driven culture, who can work closely with senior cross functions and country teams and manage complex product matrix of different formats and different mills capabilities. 

Responsibilities


* Innovation strategy: Work with cross-functional team leaders and external partners to develop the 0-3 year process/technology innovation pipeline, cost transformation and sustainability for EM, to support the EM growth and to meet KPIs.


* Innovation delivery: Deliver the 0-3 year product innovation pipeline by process/technology innovations across all categories formats to support the strategical growth in key lead markets and adopt & adapt markets.

Work with Global R&D leaders under adopt first and adapt to EM needs (formats, mill capabilities, cost and sustainability).


* Move fast: Overcome barriers for fast implementation cross markets and formats.


* Cost transformation and Asset standardization: support cost transformation initiatives to optimize products and raw materials cost and to improve profit.

Lead asset standardization by driving common technology platform.  


* Team leader: lead R&D engineering team.

Evaluate opportunities across categories and prioritize resources.

Develops and sustains talent through development and coaching.  Creates an environment to share and leverage best practice and knowledge.

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