Lead Scientist Product

Lead Scientist Product 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. As the Lead Product Scientist you will work on a Research & Development team to develop and commercialize new products and develop 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 Kleenex Facial tissue business.  This role will collaborate broadly with R&D, pilot plant, mill operations and with cross-functional disciplines.

In one of our R&D 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: 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 To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university  At least 3 years or more of experience in product development, technology development, executing consumer and/or technical/scientific studies  Strong communication skills and ability to influence leadership across all levels of the R&E and cross-functional organization  Demonstrated strengths in some of these areas: scientific experiment methods/analysis, planning/organizing, developing learning plans, comprehension of technical literature and executing consumer research  Demonstrated ability to provide work direction to team members not in a direct reporting relationship  15-25% travel  Preferred  (not essential, but desired) :   Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science related field  5 years or more of relevant experience  Experience in product development, tissue processes, design of experiments, data analysis and safe operation of high-speed manufacturing and/or converting equipment and processes. The focus of this role will be