Lead Scientist - Materials – Garments

Lead Scientist - Materials – Garments

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.  

As a Lead Scientist – Materials, you’ll lead the materials development for Front End Innovation programs in Child Care and Adult Care Garments.

The focus of this role is both new materials innovation and renovation on our current products.

This role will work in conjunction with Product Team members, Engineering, Materials, Marketing, Sales, Quality and Manufacturing to lead product activities for projects.

You’ll report to an R&D Manager and receive work direction from the Manager, Technical Leader and Project Leader.

In this role you will:


* Identify materials innovation aligned to meet consumer and business needs within the Personal Care business


* Seek and understand competitive technologies and innovation


* Provide leadership within a team environment to drive innovation from initial product prototype, BVs, and helping support the FEI process through MVC, MVP, MVT


* Collaborate broadly inside the organization with R&E, S&I Marketing, I&A, pilot plant, and cross-functional disciplines


* Influence Describe the audience this role will interact with and the level of influence they will have on those roles (i.e., explain whether the role has influence regarding decisions and the impact of those decisions, the level of leadership this role interacts with and at what frequency, etc.)


* Work closely with the Marketing, I&A, PCS, Materials, and Engineering teams among others, to achieve project goals

About Us 

Huggies®.

Kleenex®.

Cottonelle®.

Scott®.

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. 

About You 

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. 

You love what you do, espec...