Senior Director, Research and Development – Adult & Feminine Care North America

Senior Director, Research and Development – Adult & Feminine Care North America

Job Description

About Us

Kleenex®.

Cottonelle®.

Scott®.

Huggies®.

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.

Driven by You.

We’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes leaders and teams who care about making a difference.

In your Senior Director, Research and Development – Adult & Feminine Care North America role, you’ll apply your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands to help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

What You’ll Do (Role Purpose)

The Senior Director, Research and Development – Adult & Feminine Care North America (AFC, NA) provides leadership for Adult and Feminine Care development and commercialization teams in support of the Personal Care business.

The incumbent is accountable for leading and directing R&D teams to develop innovation strategies and a pipeline of high performing and consumer-preferred products.

This includes front-end-innovation through development and commercialization, quality, asset strategy, and some life-cycle-maximization efforts.

They will partner closely with cross-functional peers managing Central Research, International Personal Care, GMs, Brand Growth & Innovation (BG&I), Supply Chain and Regional and Global Procurement teams to achieve business objectives.

This leader is the Personal Care R&D representative on the AFC President’s Business Unit Senior Leadership Team and champions bringing the right resources from the Personal Care Front End Innovation and BizCon teams, as well as the OneR&D organization in support of the Kimberly-Clark North America (KCNA) AFC business.
 

The Senior Director, Research and Development – AFC NA will direct highly collaborative, cohesive, and high-performing R&D teams and inspire and energize teams to raise the bar on performance, develop new skills and turn-around declining market share and product acceptance relative to competition.
 

This role reports to the VP, R&D NA Personal Care and Global Sustainability Technology Development.
 

The Impact You Can Make

The Senior Director, R&D – AFC NA will/is:


* Lead the development of the AFC category technology and IP strategies, based on a deep understanding of the competi...