R&d Lifecycle Management Leader

**Your Job**

As a person, you’re a learner - a natural leader - someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.** It starts with YOU.**

**About Us**

Kleenex®. Huggies®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Scottex®. 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**

As part of the R&D Tissue team, The LifeCycle Management (LCM) team oversees nurturing products in market for their area of responsibility:

- New product launches
- Product design cost savings (DTV - Design To Value)
- Technical support to ensure Business continuity and compliance, including material, quality or sourcing issues

As the R&D LifeCycle Management (LCM) Leader for Intimate and Professional Care, your primary objective will be overseeing and managing our Dry Bath Tissue and Tissue Wipers product ranges in Western Europe. You will work closely with our manufacturing mills to provide product and process expertise, as well as R&D leadership for the development and implementation of Design To Value and local renovation plans, ensures business continuity and compliance of materials and products.

Furthermore, you will be responsible for the launch of centrally led innovation projects and champion of consumer interests

**Travel**: There will be up to 25% travel involved with this role, possibly more at the early stages to learn the process, assets and develop your network in our matrix organization.

**YOUR KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**:
**Design To Value**:

- Accountable for DTV target delivery in their area of responsibility, influences and manages stakeholders End to End (E2E) through target setting, technical development and programme implementation to ensure R&D targets are met.
- Leads the management of DTV initiatives within their BU from idea to implementation, including any technical development and through change control and Innovation (IMF) processes as relevant.

**Business continuity**:

- Leads and coordinates with local manufacturing, quality and marketing teams all trial and project work related to business continuity programmes on materials & product trials and qualification.
- Champions the interests of consumers and product quality by interfacing with Operations, Marketing and Quality. Partner with Quality, and marketing to identify & challenge quality issues and drive mill teams to develop plans to address them whilst providing required technical support.

**Innovation**:

- Ensure technical readiness through hand over with Product Development Team for the implementation of centrally designed innovation.
- Owns the E2E development and implementation of locally-led innovation or renovation projects in collaboration with the local teams.

**Stakeholder management**:

- Acts as the local expert for their product and manufacturing processes.
- Manages and anticipates all communication needs to key stakeholders and escalates as appropriate to senior leadership to get timely support

**WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU**:

- Bachelor Degree in a major scientific or engineering discipline
- Previous significant professional experience in production and product development/ manufacture, ideally of tissue products, alternatively of other fast moving consumer goods
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team to complete projects within required timeframes.
- Demonstrated influencing skills, ability to manage without authority to drive projects quickly and effectively utilizing project management, lean capabilities and communication skills
- Solid problem-solving skills with understanding of process development/process control, and an eye for creative solution and optimization opportunities
- Competent with data handling and working with systems, and experience with statistical analysis and software
- Fluent English and local language proficiency preferred.

**We Offer**

**To Be Considered**

**Please submit your CV in English as it will be considered by English speakers.**

In the meantime, please check out the careers website.

**And finally, the fine print.**
- For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands tha