Senior Product Scientist: Flexible, Impactful Innovation

Kimberly-Clark USA; Neenah (WI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Benefits program

Job summary

Kimberly-Clark USA is seeking a Senior Product Scientist to lead development and maintenance of the Cottonelle Dry Bath BusCon portfolio, mentor team members, and coordinate cross-functional activities from concept to launch across safety, quality, and regulatory guidelines.

You will contribute to innovative product solutions, analyze technical data, and collaborate with processes development engineers and project managers to deliver high-impact consumer products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university.
• 5+ years of experience in product development, technology development, executing consumer and/or technical/scientific studies.
• Advanced communication skills and ability to influence leadership across all levels of the R&E and cross-functional organization.
• Demonstrated strengths in scientific experiment methods/analysis, planning/organizing, developing learning plans, comprehension of technical literature and executing consumer research.
• Demonstrated ability to provide work direction to team members not in a direct reporting relationship
• 15-25% travel

Responsibilities

• Leading, prioritizing, and maintaining the overall Cottonelle Dry Bath BusCon portfolio of work.
• Mentoring and executing BusCon areas of work: specification and raw material management, claims support, product support for process updates, ECM qualification and maintenance.
• Flowing-to-work as needed to support D&C execution and enable seamless transition from launch through BusCon on all product innovations.
• Modeling expected actions in safety, ethics, quality, regulatory, and sustainability, and ensure that all elements of the corporate Human Resources Development and Diversity policy are fully supported.
• Managing self in accordance with expected One KC Behaviors.
• Conceiving, developing, validating, and sharing ideas leading to new or improved products, processes, materials, systems or scientific knowledge aligned with business unit objectives.
• Maintaining technical and scientific expertise in an area of technology and communicate impact of developments on Kimberly-Clark.
• Driving a culture of protected and documented innovation to protect and defend Kimberly-Clark proprietary technology, products, and business processes through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets.
• Communicating appropriately and effectively with all customers, internal and external, conducting all communications and transactions with the utmost integrity and honesty to build an unimpeachable business reputation.

Skills

Advanced communication

Experiment methods/analysis

Planning & organizing

Technical literature comprehension

Consumer research

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Kimberly-Clark USA is seeking a Senior Product Scientist to lead development and maintenance of the Cottonelle Dry Bath BusCon portfolio, mentor team members, and coordinate cross-functional activities from concept to launch across safety, quality, and regulatory guidelines.

You will contribute to innovative product solutions, analyze technical data, and collaborate with processes development engineers and project managers to deliver high-impact consumer products.