Regional R&d Manager

Regional R&D Manager - Adult & Feminine Care

Kimberly-Clark and its well-known global brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 150 countries. Every day, 1.3 billion people - nearly a quarter of the world's population - trust K-C brands and the solutions they provide to enhance their health, hygiene, and well-being. With brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, and Depend, Kimberly-Clark holds No.1 or No. 2 share positions in more than 80 countries. With a 135-year history of innovation, we believe in recruiting the best people and putting them in the right jobs so that they can do their best work. If fresh thinking and a passion to win inspire you, come Unleash Your Power at Kimberly-Clark.

This is a position for Regional R&D Manager within the Latin America organization who will work on product development projects supportingFeminine and Adult Care.

This professional will be responsible to lead and conduct diaper innovation pipeline as well as future technology and product development, aligned with brand architecture, as well as consumer research, prototyping trials and factory startup of innovations.

Must have an innovation profile, strategic vision, business holistic understanding, team leadership and talent development skills, project management skills, great positive stakeholders management, fostering global connections, and strong decision making skills.

This professional MUST be always updated on technology landscape and business trends related to feminine and adult care.

**Mean Responsibilities**:
1) Idealization and Product Development
- Work closely with marketing, global and other Latin America Product Development teams to generate ideas to develop new products and improve existing products, keeping in consideration product cost, engineering feasibility, product safety, legal, process capability, material availability etc. Rapid prototyping when needed.
- Work closely with Latin America sector leaders, as well as regional and country marketing teams to understand consumer and market trends and identify future product opportunities to the innovation roadmap in the market.

2) Portfolio & Project Management
- Seek and Identify and prioritize projects with potential incremental net sales for the company. Develop alternatives based on logical assumptions, facts, available resources, constraints, and organizational values to maximize results.
- Establish courses of action of self and others to ensure work is completed efficiently.
- Influence organization on area strategy. Lead himself proactively and always within KC behaviors

3) Team leadership
- Successfully lead Development & Commercialization team, within Feminine and Adult Care organization, with 6 members.
- Influence organization leaders strategy to achieve team objectives.
- Budget management and control. Managed discretionary budget of more than USD 1 million

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor's degree in major scientific discipline (such as chemical engineering, chemistry, polymer chemistry, pulp, material science etc)
- Business experience in a related field
- Ability to gather information from different areas, regions and sources in order to use it to support and defend decisions during strategic discussions.
- Fluency in written and oral communication by English. Intermediate Spanish is desirable.
- Experience in Project Management, analytical thinking, design thinking and open innovation, as well as good interpersonal skills are required.

Kimberly-Clark is an organization committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and make lives better, every day, for our diverse employees, consumers, partners, and communities. All positions are available any potential talent regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, age or disability. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. We are interested in every individual and this includes you

Health, safety and wellbeing is of paramount importance here at Kimberly-Clark. Due to the ongoing situation with COVID-19, please therefore note that all interviews are currently only being scheduled via our online video interviewing platforms. This means we can continue to identify and hire great talent in a safe and secure manner.

**Global VISA and Relocation Specifications**:
**Primary Location**

Brazil -Sao Paulo

**Additional Locations**

Brazil
- Suzano

**Worker Type**

Employee

**Worker Sub-Type**

Regular

**Time Type**

Full time