Research Technical Program Leader

Research Technical Program Leader

Job Description

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. 

As the Research Technical Program Lead on the Huggies Diapers team within Baby Care, your focus will be on leading a strategic program that touches several projects and product variants.  This role is critical for setting a path and coordinating across projects to develop and commercialize innovation programs for the Huggies brand to drive growth.

In this role, you will:


* Lead a cross functional project team and coordinate with several project leaders to develop and commercialize product solutions to deliver unmet customer needs in the key segment areas as a cohesive program.


* Work with the Project Team to effectively plan and complete learning plans, manage project timeline and budget, and drive adherence to key dates/deliverables to ensure project is on-track and in support of strategic business plan goals


* Lead and ensure product development meets consumer needs and helps ensure line of sight to process capability and visibility to capital and product supply constraints


* Determine and succinctly communicate status of projects via e-mail, project updates, and management reviews


* Drive key business decisions relative to the program and related project launches, success criteria, approach, etc.

· Lead, coach, and mentor team members to increase technical understanding and ability to execute programs to improve Huggies Diapers business results.


* Maintain technical and scientific expertise for Program Leader accountability.

Be able to communicate impact of technical developments for Kimberly Clark.


* Provide leadership by example in corporate safety, quality, regulatory, product safety and sustainability


* Ensure that all elements of the corporate Human Resources Development policy are fully supported

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.

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