Lead Product Scientist

Kimberly-Clark • Neenah, WI

12d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university
• 3 years or more of experience in product development, technology development, executing consumer, and/or technical / scientific studies
• Strong communication skills
• Demonstrated strengths in these skills: scientific experimentation methods, analysis and planning/organizing, reading and comprehension of technical literature (and summarizing)
• 15 – 30% travel is required

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science
• Prefer 5 years or more of relevant experience
• Significant work experience in a Research & Development organization
• Experience in executing both consumer studies and product performance evaluation
• Experiences and skills in influencing peers and leaders
• Experience in the development and commercialization stages of product or technology development
• Experience in various market research methodologies and test methods
• Understanding of Baby and Child Care products, brands, business and technologies

Responsibilities

• Scientists at Kimberly-Clark work as a member of an R&D team to develop, optimize, and implement changes in the product, process, material, or technology concepts.
• The Scientist for this role will improve and optimize product designs for Huggies diapers.
• Lead product development experiments to improve and define the future diaper specification in order to develop winning product propositions and substantiate claims.
• Support the development and lead portions of the consumer learning plan in conjunction with Marketing Research and Innovation Testing teams.
• Facilitate discussions with marketing and legal and complete experiments and documentation to support claims substantiation.

Benefits

• Eligibility for a target bonus
• Comprehensive benefits suite
• 401(k) and Profit Sharing plan
• Flex That Works at Kimberly-Clark: a flexible work model that blends remote work with intentional in-person collaboration

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior