Senior Scientist Product

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&E 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 product leadership across the Diaper Discovery programs and seed ideas.
• Working with the R&D project leads, Marketing, and I&A team as well as Personal Care R&E, develop learning plans and execute them, as well as mentor other more junior scientists on the team.
• Lead the interaction with the Marketing team to ensure product design meets our concept and is on strategy.
• Protect and defend Kimberly-Clark proprietary products and technology through the appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.
• Document key learnings and significant research findings in a searchable, retrievable format and coach junior team members in their documentation practices.
• Ensure all work complies with corporate safety, regulatory, product safety and sustainability requirements. 
• Interface effectively with the other work stream teams to ensure business success.
• Mentor junior scientists.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university.
• 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 directions to team members not in a direct reporting relationship.
• 15 - 25% travel, in-country and international.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science related field.
• Prefer 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience in product development, particularly in FEI.
• Passion for Innovation.
• Work experience across a range of Research & Development.
• Strong understanding of Baby Care products, brands, business, and technologies.
• Strong mentoring skills.
• Financial acumen.