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. At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands and take our future to the next level. In this role with K-C's procurement team, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.
Kimberly-Clark is looking for an ambitious, self-driven and talented individual to be responsible for Open Diapers, Diaper & Training Pants, Pads & Liners, Garments end-to-end Value Streams strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement efforts to enhance efficiency, quality, and innovation across the product lifecycle. This includes global value streams for the sector platforms: Wipes, Open Diapers, Diaper & Training Pants, Pads & Liners.
Role Accountabilities
Value stream optimization
1. Leverage sector Value Stream strategies and technology roadmaps to implement advantaged actions and initiatives to accelerate value delivery by improving efficiency, reducing cost and driving consumer value.
2. Serve as the primary contact to leverage manufacturing technologies and process advancement to drive end-to-end optimization,
3. Must have a strategic global mindset with the ability to dimension business case/value delivery out of qualitative, disparate data points within many layers of the organization
4. Orchestrate ESC teams to Advance, Innovate and design for the sector value streams
5. Work closely with various departments of the business (e.g., Operations, R&D, Sales, and Marketing) to improve the overall Value Stream
6. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize and create top level initiatives to drive end-to-end value stream for the sector.
7. Drive robustness in make versus buy analysis with ECM and internal partners, while ensuring strong capital efficiency
8. Strong commercial partnership and understanding of the customers and consumers to ensure the supply chain can deliver as expected
9. Support sourcing strategy, ensure business continuity, and negotiation leverage
10. Defines / manages definition of Target Condition, benchmarks vs Current Condition and develops gap closure plans.
Goal setting and performance management
11. Bring the outside in, ensure competitive understanding, industry benchmarks and global internal capabilities
12. Define and monitor KPIs to measure the effectiveness of the sector Value Streams, including metrics related to cost, quality, delivery, and customer satisfaction.
13. Identify and mitigate risks within the Value Stream, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and company policies.
New product and process innovation
14. Drive the manufacturing technology advancement roadmap, understand global asset capabilities and needs, align to the innovation roadmap, the asset strategy and process advancements.
15. Collaborate with R&D, Product Development and Capital Engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of new products / systems into the Value Stream
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.
At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.
Led by Purpose. Driven by You.
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.
In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
Qualifications
16. Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related field
17. 10+ years of experience in operations management within the CPG/B2B industry, with a proven track record of driving process improvements
18. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with proficiency in data-driven decision-making
19. Excellent leadership and team management capabilities
20. Experience in end-to-end cost optimization and innovation cycles.
21. Effective, consistent global communications and stakeholder management skills
22. Global operations experience, including familiarity with international manufacturing and supply chain practices
23. Proven application of Lean, Six Sigma, and other continuous improvement methodologies
24. Willingness to travel for on-site assessments and collaboration with segments and sectors globally
Total Benefits
Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see .
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 center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.
Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars 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.
To Be Considered
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And finally, the fine print….
Primary Location
Chicago Commercial Center
Additional Locations
Dallas World Headquarters, Roswell Building 300, USA-WI-Neenah, Walton Oaks
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time