Lead Scientist Materials

Lead Scientist Materials

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®  At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

 

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real-world problems with purpose and precision.

You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

In this role, you’ll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

About You

 

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

Job responsibilities include:


* Identify material innovations 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/material prototype, BVs, and helping support the FEI process through MVC, MVP, MVT.


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

 

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

 

Required Qualifications


* Bachelor’s or advanced engineering or relevant scientific discipline degree.


* 2+ years relevant product, materials, or process experience in a variety of assignments. 


* Strong analytical skills.


* Effective communication skills with the ability to discuss technical issues in a business environment.

 

Preferred Qualifications


* Experience in material development of consumer products, non-wovens, design of experiments, and data analysis.


* Demonstrated ability to work independently or to lead small teams to complete assignments and related activities in an acceptable manner. 


* Displayed strength of building relationships and build trust characteristics when working cross functionally.


* Desire and awareness to seek and understand competitive technologies and innovation.

 

Led by Purpose.

Driven by You.

 

 

Total Benefits

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful.

If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.​

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Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark.

For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com​

 

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