Lead Product Scientist

Lead Product Scientist

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 Lead Product Scientist will work on a Research & Development team to develop and commercialize new products and enhancements to existing products to meet consumer and business needs within the Family Care tissue business.

This role will provide leadership within a team environment to drive initiatives to support the Cottonelle dry bath tissue business.

This role will collaborate broadly inside the corporation with R&D, pilot plant, mill operations and with cross functional disciplines.

This position will report to the R&E Senior Manager within Family Care Research and Development.

In this role, you will:


* Provide leadership by example in safety, ethics, quality, regulatory, and sustainability, and ensure that all elements of the corporate Human Resources Development and Diversity policy are fully supported.


* Manage self in accordance with expected One KC Behaviors.


* Coach and mentor team members to increase technical understanding and ability to execute programs to improve Family Care’s business results.


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


* Maintain technical and scientific expertise in an area of technology and communicate impact of developments on Kimberly-Clark.


* Prepare and implement unit budgets and schedules.

Implement appropriate internal controls and standards to ensure compliance with applicable policies, laws and regulations.


* Drive a culture of protected and documented innovation to protect and defend K-C proprietary technology, products, and business processes through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.


* Communicate appropriately and effectively with all customers, internal and external, conducting all communications and transactions with the utmost integrity and honesty to build an unimpeachable business reputation.

Influence:


* Works closely with the Project Lead, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing teams, among others, to define and validate the product design that achieves project goals.


* Coach and mentor junior scientists


* Able to influence without authority require

About Us

Huggies®.

Kleenex®.

Cottonelle®.

Scott®.

Kotex®.

Poise®.

Depend®.

Kimberly-Clark Professional®.

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