Lead Scientist – Product

Lead Scientist – Product

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university and 3 years or more of experience in product development, technology development, executing consumer, and/or technical / scientific studies
• Strong communication skills
• Demonstrated strengths in: scientific experimentation methods, analysis and planning/organizing, reading and comprehension of technical literature (and ability to summarize)
• Ability to travel up to 30% is required

Responsibilities

• Lead product development experiments to improve and define the future diaper specification in order to develop winning product propositions and substantiate claims
• Support the development or and lead portions of the consumer learning plan in conjunction with Marketing Research and Innovation Testing teams
• Facilitate discussions with marketing and legal and complete experiments and documentation to support claims substantiation
• Collaborate with R&E team members from product, process, material disciplines as well as study and design managers
• Influence the decisions and direction provided by the Product lead, the Product Technical leader and the R&E Manager
• Influence the brand innovation plans and claims substantiation plans through R&E leads, R&E director, Brand Team members and Legal team members through core team meetings and at key milestones in the learning plan

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science and 5 years or more of relevant experience
• Significant work experience in a Research & Engineering organization
• Experience in executing both consumer studies and product performance evaluation
• Experiences and skills in influencing peers and leaders
• Experience in the development and commercialization stages of product or technology development
• Experience in various market research methodologies and test methods
• Understanding of Baby and Child Care products, brands, business and technologies