Lead Scientist - Product Development

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Lead Scientist - Product Development##
** Job Description
** You were made to do this work: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. You want to be part ofa 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.As a Scientist at Kimberly-Clark and a member of a Research & Development (R&D) team, you will develop, optimize, and implement changes in the product, process, material, or technology concepts. The Scientist for this role will improve and optimize product designs for Huggies  this role, you will:
* Lead product development experiments to improve and define the future diaper specification in order to develop winning product propositions and substantiate claims.
* Support the development or and lead portions of the consumer learning plan in conjunction with Marketing Research and Innovation Testing teams.
* Facilitate discussions with marketing and legal and complete experiments and documentation to support claims substantiation.

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.
** Led by Purpose. Driven by You.
**** About You
** You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the  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.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
* Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university
* 3 years or more of experience in product development, technology development, executing consumer, and/or technical / scientific studies
* Strong communication skills
* Demonstrated strengths in these skills: scientific experimentation methods, analysis and planning/organizing, reading and comprehension of technical literature (and summarizing)
* 15 – 30% travel is required
** Preferred** *(not essential, but desired)***:
*** Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science
* Prefer 5+ years of relevant experience
* Significant work experience in a Research & Development organization
* Experience in executing both consumer studies and product performance evaluation
* Experiences and skills in influencing peers and leaders
* Experience in the development and commercialization stages of product or technology development
* Experience in various market research methodologies and test methods
* Understanding of Baby and Child Care products, brands, business and technologies
** Total Benefits
** Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for…