Research & Engineering Manager

Research & Engineering Manager

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 Engineering 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:



* Leading and developing a high-performing team to deliver innovative product solutions that address customer needs and drive U by Kotex® tampon business growth.


* Providing people leadership, including talent development, performance management, succession planning, compensation, and organizational effectiveness.


* Coaching and mentoring team members to successfully execute product development, commercialization, lifecycle management, and cost optimization initiatives.


* Ensuring all work is conducted in compliance with FDA Quality System Regulations, internal quality standards, and product safety requirements for Class II medical devices.


* Establishing project timelines, learning plans, resource allocation, and budgets to deliver initiatives against key milestones and business priorities.


* Driving critical business decisions related to product strategy, project execution, launch readiness, risk management, and success criteria.


* Fostering collaboration, remove barriers, communicate project progress transparently, and escalate issues as needed to ensure successful delivery.


* Championing a culture of safety, quality, regulatory compliance, sustainability, innovation, and protection of intellectual property through patents and trade secrets.

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

 

Required Qualifications



* Bachelor’s degree in related discipline.


* 7+ years of experience developing and executing product development work in Research & Engineering.


* Demonstrated leadership skills providing work direction to a multi-functional team.


* Comfortable navigating through ambiguity and complexity.


* Demonstrated ability to influence people at all organizational levels, drive decision-making and execute complex projects on demanding timelines.


* Ability to operate with a growth m...