Lead Scientist Product

Kimberly-Clark•Neenah, WI

1d•$87,260 - $107,780•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. About You The Lead Scientist – Product will lead the product development for some Front End Innovation (FEI) programs in Huggies Diapers. The focus of this role will be in both new product 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 and fundamental work including ideation. The incumbent reports to an R&E Manager and receives work direction from the Manager, Technical Leader, and Project Leader. 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 or advanced engineering or relevant scientific discipline degree
3+ years relevant product and/or engineering experience in a variety of assignments.
Effective communication skills with the ability to discuss technical issues in a business environment.
Ability to build relationships and build trust characteristics when working cross functionally.
Desire and awareness to seek and understand competitive technologies and innovation.

Nice To Haves

Experience in product development of consumer products, design of experiments, and data analysis is preferred.

Responsibilities

Identify product 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 Global R&D, Marketing, Insights and Analytics, pilot plant, and cross-functional disciplines.
Works closely with the Marketing, I&A, IC&T, Materials, and Engineering teams among others, to achieve project goals.