Senior Product Developer

Overview

Senior Product Developer. You will explore uncharted questions, engineer innovative solutions, advance scientific understanding, and push the boundaries of what’s possible. You will be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real-world problems with purpose and precision, in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. In this role, you’ll help shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

• Serve as a senior product developer on the Consumer Towels Product Development team.
• Provide product leadership for the end-to-end development of Consumer Towel innovation, ensuring successful development, commercialization and launch of products. This includes Front End Innovation (FEI) work building Innovation Pathways from consumer insights to product design and ensuring robust learning plans to support market launch.
• Collaborate with R&D team members and cross-functional partners from Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Quality and Manufacturing to execute projects.
• Reports to a Senior Research & Development Manager and receives work direction from the Research Technical Leader, as well as the Research & Development Manager, with largely self-directed execution.
• Provide work direction, coaching, and mentoring to 2-3 team members.
• Lead a cross-functional R&D team to deliver project goals, identify and drive learning plans, manage project timelines, and ensure adherence to key dates and deliverables to keep the project on track.
• Manage Front End of Innovation (FEI) funnel projects to meet deadlines, success criteria and budgets.
• Partner with business and market research team members to develop and execute plans to gather consumer insights and drive product innovation aligned with strategic business goals.
• Work closely with Supply Chain, Marketing and Finance teams, among others, to achieve project goals; demonstrate significant influence without authority where required.
• Provide work direction while coaching and mentoring members of the cross-functional R&D team.
• Ensure all work complies with Corporate Safety, Regulatory, Product Safety, and Quality requirements.
• Document knowledge and report research and development work as required by R&D policy and IP needs.
• Works closely with R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing and Finance teams, among others, to achieve project goals.
• Demonstrate significant influence without authority where required.

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You know our brands, and millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We rely on talented professionals to create these products.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of a team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and there are opportunities to grow and develop here.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

You perform at the highest level and value a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when your work makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re always exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can achieve results.

In one of our manufacturing 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:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university.
• 5+ years of experience in product development and/or project management.
• Proven track record of effectively communicating to and influencing leaders and team members across all levels of the organization.
• Prior experience leading projects from ideation through execution.
• Ability to provide work direction to team members who are not in a direct reporting relationship.
• Up to 30% travel, with potential for increased frequency of travel around product launches/implementation.

Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science-related…