Senior Formulation Scientist, Plant Extract Applications
Job Description
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 .
Kimberly-Clark is seeking a Senior Formulation Scientist, Plant Extract Applications to lead the development of formulations that use value-added plant-extract ingredients across agriculture, personal care, household care, and related markets.
This role owns the application of defined extract forms, fractions, and ingredients in product systems. You will translate customer, consumer, and market needs into formulation requirements, design and execute experiments, troubleshoot performance issues, and develop products that are stable, safe, effective, manufacturable, and commercially relevant.
Your role is to determine how the plant extract ingredients perform in real product systems and to provide clear application requirements and feedback to both partners.
In this role, you will:
Design and develop formulations containing plant-derived ingredients for personal care, household care, industrial or natural surfactant applications, agriculture and other priority markets.
Translate market, customer, consumer, and technical needs into formulation requirements, ingredient attributes, performance targets, testing plans, and development priorities.
Screen and evaluate plant-extract forms, fractions, concentrates, and value-added ingredients for compatibility, functionality, stability, efficacy, aesthetics, and manufacturability.
Lead formulation work involving botanical actives, surfactant systems, emulsions, dispersions, gels, concentrates, sprays, and other relevant delivery formats.
Evaluate ingredient interactions and optimize pH, solubility, rheology, preservation, phase stability, fragrance, color, texture, sensory performance, and application performance.
Plan and execute laboratory experiments, designed experiments, stability studies, prototype evaluations, and technical trials. Interpret data and document findings clearly.
Troubleshoot formulation challenges related to compatibility, viscosity, foaming, cleansing or treatment performance, deposition or delivery, preservation, phase separation, appearance, and sensory attributes.
Work with the Principal Technical Expert to refine extract composition, ingredient specifications, processing form, and functionality requirements based on formulation results.
Work with the Technical Project Leader, Process Engineering to confirm that promising formulations and ingredient forms can be manufactured consistently and transferred to pilot or commercial operations.
Support pilot batches, technology transfer, manufacturing trials, product safety reviews, regulatory assessments, claims support, and customer or commercial evaluations.
Partner with R&D, analytical, regulatory, quality, marketing, procurement, manufacturing, and commercial teams to advance projects efficiently.
Maintain awareness of market trends, competitive products, customer needs, and emerging technologies in botanical ingredients, surfactants, personal care, household care and agriculture.
Mentor junior scientists or technicians as needed and contribute to a collaborative, innovation-driven team environment.
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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.
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