Senior Scientist - Product & Projects

at  KimberlyClark

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 Scientist Projects will provide product and project leadership for smaller projects within the Huggies Diapers Innovation portfolio. As a member of the R&E Team, this individual will collaboratively lead projects through the Innovation Management Framework and lead the consumer learning plan to develop and validate the innovation. This role will work in conjunction with Research and Engineering Team Members and cross-functional partners from Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Quality and Manufacturing to execute projects. The incumbent reports to an R&E Manager and receives work direction from the Manager and Technical Leader. This role will give work direction, coaching, and mentoring to 3-8 indirect team members.

ABOUT US

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.
At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

• Lead cross-functional R&E team to deliver upon project goals through Innovation Management Framework.
• Manage project timeline and budget, and drive adherence to key dates/deliverables to ensure project is on-track
• Lead product development efforts to identify and drive learning plans including substantiation for claims and Benefit Visualizations to bring our product benefits and features to life.
• Work with Marketing and Supply Chain teams as well as Personal Care R&E, develop learning plans and execute them; must be able to influence without authority.
• Works closely with Marketing, Manufacturing, and Finance teams, among others, to achieve project goals; significant influence without authority required.
• Provide work direction, coach, and mentor members of the cross-discipline R&E team.
• Ensure all work complies with Corporate Safety, Regulatory, Product Safety, and Quality requirements.
• Interface effectively with the other work stream teams to ensure business success.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in project management and/or product development
• Proven track record of effectively communicating to and influencing leaders and team members across all levels of the R&E and cross-functional organization
• Must have experience with developing learning plans and executing consumer research
• Demonstrated ability to provide work direction to team members not in a direct reporting relationship
• 15-25% travel, in-country and internationa