Senior Scientist Formulations

Kimberly-Clark • Neenah, WI

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. The Senior Formulation Scientist, Front End Innovation through Development & Commercialization, provides formulation expertise and leadership for developing technologies and formulations for Personal Care and Family Care Skin Health programs. This role resides within the GR&D Product Steward Team organization and will primarily be focused on supporting Skin Health programs across dry tissue and wet wipe product development and manufacturing. The role will partner closely with GR&D, KCNA R&D, Global Quality, Marketing, EHS and Segment R&D teams. Leads large projects and carries out accountabilities with a collaborative mindset ensuring visibility of progress/results to all key stakeholders. The incumbent will scout and/or develop new technologies and apply those technologies to deliver consumer-relevant benefits to meet business priorities.

Requirements

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a chemistry related discipline such as Chemistry, Food Science, or Chemical Engineering
• 5+ years of experience in a Research, Quality, or Manufacturing function
• Technical expertise in formulation science and lab practices
• Basic knowledge of cosmetic and/or OTC drug testing requirements
• Experience leading experimental design, statistics and data analysis concepts. Including data analysis and statical software, such as JMP or Minitab.
• Prior leadership experience with moderate to large sized projects

Nice To Haves

• Experience in skin health
• Experience in dry bath tissue and/or moist bath tissue product development, is preferred
• Experience in cosmetic product development, scale-up and manufacturing such as wet wipes, is preferred
• Demonstrated application of utilizing formulation expertise to drive action in product development and/or manufacturing, is preferred

Responsibilities

• Develop Technology Road map to support the Family Care Skin Health benefit strategy
• Develop benefit pathway, corresponding power claims and methodologies to substantiate them.
• Strengthen foundational and clinical science in collaboration with Life Sciences and deliver against the targeted claims.
• Leads formulation development projects that meet consumer, quality, product safety and compliance needs.
• Delivers formulations per project timelines and IMF commitments.
• Develops creative technical solutions & capabilities based on consumer insights, technology scouting, leveraging published scientific research, patent art, and deep understanding of cosmetic raw materials and formulation stability fundamentals.
• Works closely with Formulation Technical Leader and Formulation Team members to progress formulation development activities and design/carry-out lab experiments and pilot line trials.
• Closely partners with Global and Regional R&D product development and Marketing teams to ensure work meets project needs and delivering on potential claims.
• Builds strong relationships with Family Care to advance foundational work in Skin Health Strategy.
• Considers impact of new technologies on quality and manufacturing.
• Works across D&C to develop line-of-sight to commercial implementation at K-C or external facilities.
• Evaluates data and provides interpretation.
• Makes connections between formulations, product performance and aging/stability data.
• Drives recommendations on product development activities and alignment with business strategy.
• Communicates complicated technical information in a clear and engaging manner to non-technical audiences and builds credibility to gain buy-in on recommendations
• Coaches and mentors Lead Formulation Scientists and Business Unit Scientists.

Benefits

• Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions.
• Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.
• Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.
• Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.
• Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees