Technical Strategist - Product Testing

Technical Strategist - Product Testing##
** Job Description
** You are not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we are 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 will bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you will help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.
*** It starts with YOU.
*** As the Product Testing Technical Strategist, you’ll serve as the strategic thought leader and end to end owner of product testing capability within the North America Innovation Capabilities and Transformation organization. This senior technical leadership role is accountable for defining, challenging, and advancing the product learning strategy across predictive, physical, and consumer testing, ensuring that testing insights directly enable business priorities, accelerate innovation, and strengthen decision quality.

Beyond establishing strategy, the Product Testing Technical Strategist is also accountable for the full execution and continuous evolution of the product testing ecosystem, in strong partnership with the Business Unit Innovation teams. The role drives a shift from execution-focused delivery to integrated, future-ready capability leadership, setting clear direction while also ensuring operational excellence and measurable impact. Acting as the strategic integrator across the testing continuum, this role builds and deploys scalable tools, methods, and operating models that elevate learning agility – delivering more learning with the same or fewer resources.

You'll proactively challenge existing norms, identify capability gaps, and champion transformative approaches that expand the value and influence of product testing. Success requires close partnership with all Business Unit product development teams, global R&D, and Innovation Capabilities leadership to ensure product learning is cohesive, strategic, and a competitive advantage.
** In this role, you will:
*** Serve as a strategic partner for Business Unit R&D across all brands. Align testing plans with business timelines, innovation roadmaps, innovation risk and reward levels, and claims requirements. Ensure teams are consistently challenging the norms of how we test product innovation.
* Translate business needs into scalable, predictive, and agile testing strategies. Define, communicate, and lead the execution of the product testing vision.
* Lead development of new testing frameworks, methods, and tools that improve speed, confidence, and cost efficiency. Drive standardization where appropriate while enabling flexibility for innovation.
* Drive deeper integration across the broader testing function to strengthen end to end decision support. Break down silos and increase shared understanding of the full testing continuum.
* Mentor and coach team members to build strategic thinking, influence, and capability depth. Strengthen attraction and retention of talent.
* Champion adoption of digital, predictive, and AI-enabled testing approaches.
* Actively support culture transformation and champion ways of working evolution. Shape operating models that improve clarity, accountability, and efficiency across teams.
* Proactively look to solutions outside the team to solve business problems. Leverage external suppliers, industry organizations and academic connections to incorporate new technologies and gain access to needed resources to drive efficiency and manage workload of existing team.

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…