Director - Research and Development

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Operations LLC is seeking a highly motivated, dedicated and experienced Director of Product Development for our Tissue Branded Business.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a dynamic team in the Research & Development department, driving innovation, product strategy, roadmaps, and growth through new product development in our Quilted Northern®, Angel Soft, customer branded tissue product lines and Dixie.

Your focus will be to build trusted relationships, facilitate career development, and connect your team to our collective vision.

As a supervisor, you will inspire and motivate each employee to realize their potential, ensuring their maximum contribution to the team's long-term success.

This role is pivotal in driving our teams towards achieving our business goals while enhancing our Principle Based Management culture.

This position is located at the Neenah (WI) Technical Center.

At Georgia-Pacific, we believe in recognizing and rewarding our employees in a way that aligns with our Principle Based Management culture.

Our compensation philosophy encompasses an employee's contribution to the team, business results, and the overall company culture, going beyond evaluating work product alone.

We strive to align total compensation, including base pay, variable pay, and benefits, with each employee's total contribution.

By embracing this approach, we encourage calculated risk-taking consistent with our risk philosophy, empowering every employee to achieve their greatest potential.

Come join our team and immerse yourself in a rewarding work environment where your contributions are valued and rewarded, driving the long-term success of our company and your personal growth.

Our Team

The Georgia-Pacific Retail Tissue, Towel and Napkin (TTN) and Dixie Product Development Team leads the strategic long-term product and technology innovation road mapping across the Retail TTN product lines.

We do so in collaboration with our business, market insights, operations partners and with a focus on connecting consumer perception to technical and measurable attributes of our products.

We are a capable and diverse team of individuals that leverage our complimentary skills and experience to build the strongest innovation pipelines for our future.

Our approach is to enable alignment of high value opportunities with your capabilities and career development goals so you can succeed and help achieve our goals as a team and business.

We are stronger together and are looking for you to help us grow!

What You Will Do

• Improve our R&D organizational performance by continually developing subject matter expertise in others, coaching / educating our technical community while enhancing our Principled Based Management culture.
• Lead and manage a team of product developers that work on both near term and long-term complex projects that require an experimental mindset and technology advancement to realize long term value.
• Drive the development of new products and improvements to existing products.
• Oversee the execution of product development projects from concept to launch.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product development aligns with business strategies and goals. Provide clear and concise technical point of view on innovation pathways to our business leaders, operations, manufacturing, sales, and marketing teams.
• Create long-term product roadmaps based on understanding of technical capabilities, consumer / customer unmet needs and market trends in collaboration with internal business partners.
• Collaborate on and enhance Intellectual Property strategies that include landscape investigation, IP renewal strategies, the creation of invention disclosures and patent applications by partnering with the Legal team.
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory and company standards in product development. Ensure a strong team aligned with our guiding principles.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in Research & Development within the product development lifecycle.
• Experience supervising a product development team overseeing near-term and long-term projects.
• Experience in driving development of new products and improving existing products.
• Experience analyzing market dynamics and customer needs to guide research initiatives and product development strategies
• Experience managing budgets, timeline, resources to ensure successful project completion.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or Science
• Experience building product strategy and innovation pipelines.
• IP development / strategy experience
• Competitive intelligence experience
• Paper science, tissue industry or consumer product development experience

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most.

Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation / time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance.

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.