Ifp Tissue Product Development Team Leader

**IFP Tissue Product Development Team Leader (International Family Care and Professional)**

**Location: Walton Oaks, Surrey, UK or Bangkok Thailand**

**Permanent, Full time**

**Competitive salary + benefits**

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.

In this role you will have the exciting opportunity to drive the next chapter of product innovation for some of the key categories in the IFP tissue business - by bringing together your amazing passion for understanding consumers, pioneering new technologies, translating new ideas & insights into winning product propositions to meet and exceed the business needs. You will also have a fantastic opportunity to partner with some of the key stakeholders in the R&D, Growth and Supply Chain teams and play an active role in influencing the IFP strategy.

In this role, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
**Innovation & strategy development**
- This role will work closely with the Innovation R&D Director, Innovation Strategist and Growth leaders to develop a prioritized pipeline of initiatives that meet/exceed the business needs and puts in place effective influencing strategies that persuade key stakeholders to take action that will advance shared interests and business goals.
- Responsible for delivering medium to long-term product innovation programs across some of the categories of the IFP portfolio that drive a competitive advantage from consumer benefit/cost/sustainability point of view.

**Innovation & Program Development**
- Provides leadership, coaching and prioritisation to the product development team reporting into them - from early stages of product development through to technical readiness, implementation and commercialization and seamless hand over to the Life Cycle Management team
- Provides R&D thought leadership on Right to Win and works closely with Life Cycle Management team leaders and key mills to ensure we stay true to design intent
- Works in close partnership with Innovation Strategist & Technology team leader to ensure innovation initiatives stay aligned with overall innovation strategy and technology/sustainability roadmaps.

**Organizational Leadership**
- Lives and builds an empowered performance driven culture characterized by collaboration and multi-functional teamwork, agility, resilience, learning and a ‘can do’ mindset in support of achieving high performance levels.

**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.

**Led by Purpose. Driven by You.**

**About You**

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fuelled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

You will focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the centre. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

- Requires a Bachelor’s degree in a science, engineering or related business discipline, and/or 12+ years industrial experience or another equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Demonstrated ability to lead diverse teams geographically dislocated, foster collaboration, drive a play to win/high performing mindset and develop & sustain talents
- Demonstrated ability to understand consumers & drive consumer centric solutions that connect insights, technologies & external trends in service of meeting/exceeding business goals.
- A strong track record of developing & commercialising winn