Principal Quality Specialist – QA Programs IFP

Principal Quality Specialist – QA Programs IFP (International Family Care & Professional) Permanent, Full time Competitive + 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.

The Quality Assurance Programs team is responsible for overseeing the entire quality assurance process, establishing, maintaining, and socialising the required IFP (International Family Care & professional) QMS standards, procedures, processes and forms which make up the IFP QMS. This role also ensures effective design to commercialisation life-cycle quality management activities are in place for all IFP product categories across the end-to-end supply chain so required product quality performance and regulatory compliance is achieved.

This role will be responsible for but not limited to:

• Ensure QMS standards, processes, and practices meet Kimberly-Clark and external stakeholder requirements (e.g., ISO 9001, 13485, 22716).
• Participate in global project teams to develop global standards.
• Incorporate Enterprise Quality Management System documents and processes into the IFP Quality Management System.
• Collaborate with customers, authorities, external auditors, or other stakeholders to demonstrate QMS effectiveness and compliance.
• Achieve in-market quality performance and regulatory compliance for assigned product categories and platforms.
• Lead the development of goals, targets, and outcomes for new product development and product design changes.
• Interface with R&D, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Distribution for new product introductions and changes to existing products.
• Drive resolution for Quality nonconformances, consumer and customer complaints, significant quality events.
• Develop and execute quality programs, initiatives, and targets to achieve product quality performance and regulatory compliance.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled 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.

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

• A Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline, typically science or engineering and / or significant quality management experience.
• 10 years + experience in a QMS, Supplier or Manufacturing Quality role or a Research & Engineering product role.
• Working knowledge and experience with products requiring compliance to various regulatory or other technical requirements.
• Working knowledge on establishing and maintaining an effective Quality Management System.
• A recognized quality management qualification is desirable such as ASQ Certified Quality Engineer / Quality Manager / Auditor or CQI Chartered Quality Management Professional Internal or Lead Auditor qualification is desirable.
• Experience of quality in Cosmetics, Biocides, Consumer Products, B2B or similar environment would be preferred.

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark:

• Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions.
• Access to an on-site fitness centre, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.
• Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch pounds when caring for yourself or dependents.
• Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.
• Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.
• We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance.
• Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme.

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

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. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects 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, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.