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Your role at Clorox:
The Clorox Wipes business has a goal to be the easiest way to clean everyday messes. The package is an essential vehicle to communicate and deliver delight and drive loyalty. In this role you will have the opportunity to work on our suite of Wipes Products looking to build out the innovation pipeline for the next 3-5 years. This includes enabling our aggressive goals to continue growing in the Ecomm space.
The Wipes R&D team is seeking a consumer obsessed packaging development expert to join our agile group of scientists. In this role, you will bring new ideas and innovation to our products, while continuing to deliver executional excellence and build technical rigor capability. We are looking for a technical expert at the Scientist 2 level to join our dedicated group to advance our desire to drive category growth via new benefits and cleaning occasions.
This position will be located in our Pleasanton, CA office, and the individual will be expected to be in the office of 3 days a week.
In this role, you will:
Packaging development for Scentiva and Wipes
Package development lead for projects to ensure technical rigor and deliver against project deliverables (secondary packaging, blow molding, injection molding components)
Design and execute technical testing to converge on and validate pkg design and performance. Including developing new test methods with support when necessary
Use established Clorox processes to deliver projects and identifies potential improvements
Build capability on ecomm and modelling to further our aggressive growth plans
Create consumer and customer facing specifications and processing standards
Lead risk assessment and mitigation plan
Apply fundamental technical and packaging knowledge to deliver new packaging solutions
Externally focused Packaging Development
Establish and grow relationship with external manufacturing and technology partners and internal experts
Develop and lead packaging testing and validation, internally and externally, upholding a strong technical foundation and right rigor/right time mentality
Develop and lead manufacturing implementation of innovations
Represent one R&D voice balancing risk, impact, speed, and decision-making complexity
Capabilities Development and Technical improvements
Demonstrate a mentality of constant improvement and willingness to challenge past ways of working to drive efficiency in your work and presenting means of improving the work of the broader technical team
Establish and maintain strong technical organization through knowledge management and documentation
Learn and develop new demos to showcase our products
Contribute to a robust intellectual property portfolio and strategy
Further build ecomm testing and risk assessment protocol
What we look for:
Years and Type of Experience:
Minimum: 3+ years as a product or packaging developer in consumer product goods companies or applicable field
Skills and Abilities
Strong internal motivation, robust planning of technical and cross functional teams, critical thinking, problem solving under unique constraints, able to work independently, able to work with and through others
Education Level/Degree:
Bachelors or Masters in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Packaging Engineering, Chemical Engineering or time in applicable role(s) after college
LI-Hybrid
Workplace @type:
This position will be located in our Pleasanton, CA office, and the individual will be expected to be in the office of 3 days a week.
Our values-based culture connects to our purpose and empowers people to be their best, professionally and personally. We serve a diverse consumer base which is why we believe teams that reflect our consumers bring fresh perspectives, drive innovation, and help us stay attuned to the world around us. That's why we foster an inclusive culture where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate, and ultimately able to thrive. Learn more (https://www.thecloroxcompany.com/responsibility/thriving-communities/empowering-our-employees-to-thrive/) **.
[U.S.]Additional Information:**
At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates' unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.
We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.
-Zone A: $88,700 - $165,900
-Zone B: $81,300 - $152,100
-Zone C: $73,900 - $138,300
All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.
This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox's incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.
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We champion people to be well and thrive every single day. We're proud to be in every corner of homes, schools, and offices-making daily life simpler and easier through our beloved brands. Working with us, you'll join a team of passionate problem solvers and relentless innovators fueled by curiosity, growth, and progress. We relish taking on new, interesting challenges that allow our people to collaborate and thrive at work. And most importantly, we care about each other as multifaceted, whole humans. Join us as we reimagine what's possible and work with purpose to make a difference in the world.
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