Manufacturing Excellence Engineer Manager/Product Owner

The candidates can be at any North American manufacturing site

Your Job

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 your role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

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 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; you just need to log on!

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You’re driven to 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.

Main responsibilities :

Owns all aspects of NA Manufacturing Excellence Products which includes :

Strategy Vision & Execution : Leads and executes data & analytics strategy for corresponding product team, including master data governance, data products and models.

Capability Leadership : Leads the design, development, deployment and continuous support of digital products and solutions, fostering innovation and excellence in digital offerings for the product team.

Operational Leadership : Lead day-to-day digital operations, ensuring service delivery support operations excellence including audits, change, incident, problem, and configuration management.

Strategic Business Plan : Develops technology investment plans and activation, including budgeting, forecasting, business case development and realization, business outcome identification, business adoption plans, resourcing plans.

Security and Compliance : Champion the importance of digital security and privacy, adheres to internal and external rigorous protocols to protect company and customer data.

Standards and Governance : Establish and uphold best practice standards for digital commercial product operations.

Business Enablement : Partner with other business units, regions, and business stakeholders to maximize globalization, scalability and overall TCO.

Build Talent Promote and build global leaders, develop resources with the needed functional and technical skills required to meet K-C’s growing application portfolio and changing technology needs.

Key Qualifications and Experiences :

Bachelor’s degree in Information Management Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline. MBA or equivalent is preferred.

7-10+ years demonstrable strategic impact and technology delivery in Manufacturing technology and operations within an innovative and highly agile customer environment.

Solid experience in Consumer Packaged Goods industry.

Proven experience defining and executing an integrated manufacturing product ecosystem and strategy

Exceptional ability to build cross-functional relationships with Senior Leaders and diverse teams including business stakeholders, internal DTS organization, and external partners and customers.

Proven ability to lead global application delivery in a 24x7 business and secure operating environment.

2+ years as Product Owner or 4+ years as Business Analyst with demonstrable experience in Agile and Product team workflows, including epics, features, stories, sprints, and backlog management.

Financial Fluency : profit and loss statement understanding, Business case development, OKRs, KPIs.

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 www.mykcbenefits.com.

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 hea

lth 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

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 www.mykcbenefits.com .

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

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.

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And finally, the fine print .

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.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification.

Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.

Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact 866-444-4516 when prompted for employee ID, say OTHER CALLER - or kcchrprod@service-now.

com for assistance. You must include the six-digit Job # with your request.

Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.

Kimberly-Clark will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role. The benefits provided will be per the terms of Kimberly-Clark’s applicable mobility policies.

The benefits / policy provided will be decided at Kimberly-Clark’s sole discretion.