Lead Scientist Materials

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional® At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real‑world problems with purpose and precision. You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

In this role, you’ll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. Job responsibilities include:

• Identify material innovations aligned to meet consumer and business needs within the Personal Care business.
• Seek and understand competitive technologies and innovation.
• Provide leadership within a team environment to drive innovation from initial product/material prototype, BVs, and helping support the FEI process through MVC, MVP, MVT.
• Collaborate broadly inside the organization with R&E, BG&I Marketing, I&A, pilot plant, and cross‑functional disciplines.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or advanced engineering or relevant scientific discipline degree.
• 2+ years relevant product, materials, or process experience in a variety of assignments.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to discuss technical issues in a business environment.

• Experience in material development of consumer products, non-wovens, design of experiments, and data analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently or to lead small teams to complete assignments and related activities in an acceptable manner.
• Displayed strength of building relationships and build trust characteristics when working cross functionally.
• Desire and awareness to seek and understand competitive technologies and innovation.

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we’re committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you’re looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly‑Clark is the place for you.

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly‑Clark. For a complete overview, see

We believe great work happens when people come together with purpose. That’s why we offer a flexible work model that blends remote work with intentional in‑person collaboration - helping you connect, grow, and innovate while maintaining the balance you value.

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 that make life better for people all around the world, which is why we seek to build a workforce that encompasses the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly‑Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise.

We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity,…