Associate Director, R&D Software Engineering

You were made to do this work: designing new technologies, diving into data, optimizing digital experiences, and constantly developing better, faster ways to get results. You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to building technology for a purpose that matters. You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. 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: Deliver innovative, efficient and cost-effective solutions to meet enterprise needs and to drive business growth and profitability. Assure secure, compliant, well tested, and stable operations. Builds trust and credibility with leaders, peers, and teams across regions in DTS and R&D. Act as a leading change agent in delivering and embracing digital strategies. Influence the prioritization of digital technology decisions for the global businesses to ensure world class delivery and value for digital investment. Be accountable for IT cost controls and optimization (GM Mindset). Influence as a people leader across the organization and promotes a learning culture. Exceptional communicator and ability to translate customer needs and R&D requirements into technical solutions to accelerate research and drive growth. Deliver innovative, efficient and cost-effective solutions to meet enterprise need and to drive business growth and profitability. Seek ongoing improvements in the service delivery performance, provide insight into decision-making and report on business outcomes through tracking and measuring KPIs. Ensure effective and efficient delivery of technology solutions and products to the business by providing internal technology resources to program initiatives and building effective working relationships with internal and/or external delivery organizations. Provides thought leadership in emerging application technologies (i.e., Cloud, IoT, AI). Continually develops capability and performance in self and others in a rapidly evolving technology landscape. Global Application Delivery – Define, analyze, design, build, test, and deliver business initiatives in accordance with business and IT priorities and annual budgets. Business-IT Strategy - Promote and support the long-range IT systems plan consistent with business objectives. Support and facilitate the alignment of corporate IT strategy to business strategies. Information and Digital Technologies Leadership - Represent the face of DTS to the customer. Identify technology opportunities which provide strategic/tactical advantages in planning, managing and conducting the business. Engage with key customers and other external business partners to deliver IT solutions in a high quality, globally conscience manner. Build Talent – Promote and build global leaders, develop staff with the needed functional and technical skills required to meet K-C's growing application portfolio and changing technology needs. Consistently demonstrates the K-C Ways of Working. Maintains and evolves cultural awareness; acts with global fluency. Adopts a test and learn, fail fast mindset with calculated risk taking. Demonstrates deep learning agility and promotes a learning culture. Acts and influences as a people leader across the organization. Takes personal accountability for self-development, while building and developing talent around them. Acts as a disruptive change agent fluidly moving back and forth, focused on transformation for today and tomorrow. Delivers right mix of operations, delivery, strategy and innovation. Listens for reflection; partners with business and functions to deliver outcomes. Provides Business Technology thought leadership, bringing knowledge and solutions to drive business outcomes. Thinks 'digital' and embraces next generation ways of doing work. Adopts a GM mindset and has relevant finance/P&L understanding.

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.