What are the responsibilities and job description for the Global Product Developer position at Essity?
Global Product Developer – Light Incontinence Care
Do you have a passion for Product Development? Are you looking for a new opportunity where you can work with developing products which contribute to increasing the dignity and quality of life of people around the world? Looking for a role where you can innovate and experiment? This could be the role for you!
We are looking for a Global Product Developer to the Light Inco Incontinence Care category within R&D Personal Care. As a Product Developer, you are responsible for developing new and existing products to meet the consumer and customer needs, business, brand needs, ensuring manufacturability, cost efficiency and competitiveness. We as a team translates consumer needs to product functions and further to product design parameters/technical solutions and establish specifications with relevant targets, methods and tolerances.
We offer you a challenging job in a global company with many strong international brands. We will enable you to further develop in a creative and team-oriented group!
The roles will be located at Cira Centre in Philadelphia, USA and are permanent positions.
We're looking for people who embody our values, aren't afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We're always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we'd love to talk.
What You Will Do
Guided by our Beliefs & Behavior, our culture is the foundation that connects our history with our future. At Essity, care, collaboration and inclusion are more than buzzwords, they are practiced on an everyday basis. And with a purpose of breaking barriers to wellbeing, promoting gender equality and enable customers and consumers to lead a fuller life at all stages of life, DEI is in our core.
As we work in diverse teams across geographies, cultures and professional areas, inclusive leadership is something we expect from ourselves and each other. In our leadership platform, we express this as leveraging the power of differences. From experience we know that diverse and inclusive teams are key to innovate and profitably grow our business while simultaneously address our ambitious climate targets.
What We Can Offer You
At Essity, we believe every career is as unique as the individual and empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.
Compensation and Benefits:
Competitive annual salary annual incentive bonus benefits
Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors such as knowledge, skills, and experience.
Along with competitive pay you will be eligible for the following benefits:
Additional Information
The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified candidates and employees pursuant to applicable law. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
If you require reasonable accommodation as part of the application process please contact EssityHRNorthAmerica@essity.com
Together, we are improving lives, every day
Working at Essity is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world a healthier, more hygienic and safer place. With impactful innovations coupled with sustainable solutions, we strive to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for well-being.
Application End Date:
Job Requisition ID:
Essity250710
Do you have a passion for Product Development? Are you looking for a new opportunity where you can work with developing products which contribute to increasing the dignity and quality of life of people around the world? Looking for a role where you can innovate and experiment? This could be the role for you!
We are looking for a Global Product Developer to the Light Inco Incontinence Care category within R&D Personal Care. As a Product Developer, you are responsible for developing new and existing products to meet the consumer and customer needs, business, brand needs, ensuring manufacturability, cost efficiency and competitiveness. We as a team translates consumer needs to product functions and further to product design parameters/technical solutions and establish specifications with relevant targets, methods and tolerances.
We offer you a challenging job in a global company with many strong international brands. We will enable you to further develop in a creative and team-oriented group!
The roles will be located at Cira Centre in Philadelphia, USA and are permanent positions.
We're looking for people who embody our values, aren't afraid to challenge, innovate, experiment, and move at a fast pace. We're always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you, we'd love to talk.
What You Will Do
- Manage the required development of new and existing products. Act as a sub-project leader or project member in cross functional project teams
- Your work will involve regular consumer contact and the position will cover tasks in early idea generation to production and launch
- Perform test runs in factory and on pilot machine
- Execute activities for claim substantiation
- Lead and/or participate in R&D enabling projects/activities to improve state of readiness for future innovation
- Bachelors degree within a technical field, preferably Product Design, Material, Chemistry, Mechanical or equivalent within relevant practice
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience within product development, product life cycle management or similar relevant experience
- Ability to travel as the function requires visits to factories and suppliers both in and outside Europe.
- Experience from Medical Device Regulated products is an advantage
- Experience from project management is beneficial
- Experience from using CAD, modelling and simulation tools in product development is beneficial
- Travel 30-45 days a year
- We are looking for someone that enjoys working in teams, is open minded and has a problem-solving approach.
- You should have a passion for product development and interest in business and marketing aspects of the development work as well as a strong technical interest. Valuable skills are analytical, data driven, and proactive.
- You should have the ability to have a holistic view and relate well to different cultures and build good relations on all levels. In addition, we want someone with good communication and presentation skills.
- Finally, we are looking for someone who wants to make a difference in peoples’ lives. With our products being essentials and necessities for people, together we make Essity.
Guided by our Beliefs & Behavior, our culture is the foundation that connects our history with our future. At Essity, care, collaboration and inclusion are more than buzzwords, they are practiced on an everyday basis. And with a purpose of breaking barriers to wellbeing, promoting gender equality and enable customers and consumers to lead a fuller life at all stages of life, DEI is in our core.
As we work in diverse teams across geographies, cultures and professional areas, inclusive leadership is something we expect from ourselves and each other. In our leadership platform, we express this as leveraging the power of differences. From experience we know that diverse and inclusive teams are key to innovate and profitably grow our business while simultaneously address our ambitious climate targets.
What We Can Offer You
At Essity, we believe every career is as unique as the individual and empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.
Compensation and Benefits:
Competitive annual salary annual incentive bonus benefits
Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors such as knowledge, skills, and experience.
Along with competitive pay you will be eligible for the following benefits:
- United Healthcare PPO / EyeMed Vision Insurance / Delta Dental Insurance
- Wellness program provided through Rally
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) with employer match and annual employer base contribution
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D, short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- PTO offering with Paid Holidays
- Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance
- Employee discounts program
- Scholarship program for children of Essity employees.
Additional Information
The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified candidates and employees pursuant to applicable law. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
If you require reasonable accommodation as part of the application process please contact EssityHRNorthAmerica@essity.com
Together, we are improving lives, every day
Working at Essity is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world a healthier, more hygienic and safer place. With impactful innovations coupled with sustainable solutions, we strive to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for well-being.
Application End Date:
Job Requisition ID:
Essity250710
