Supply Planning Global Process Lead

You were made to do this work: designing new technologies, diving into data, optimizing digital experiences, and constantly developing better, faster ways to get results. You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to building technology for a purpose that matters. Here, you’ll work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development while you help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

In this role, you will:

- This position will help facilitate and lead the development of the future global design for KCC supply and inventory planning process and system solution under the Aurora program in collaboration as part of the Aurora Core Team. The Aurora team will partner with the regions and vendor partners, to ensure and deliver: the blueprint process design and build, landing of the aligned process and system solution with business and technical stakeholders, the aligned outcomes, and effective change management to sustain the future processes and toolset.
- This global process lead will focus on supporting supply planning and inventory optimization (model settings & planning outputs) processes. This work requires knowledge and skill in full supply chain integration, cross role collaboration and execution, master data clean up and maintenance, new product introductions, sourcing strategy development and execution, production planning (leveraging ePPDS as part of SAP), distribution requirements planning, and material requirements planning.
- As part of the Aurora team, this position will ensure KCC achieves superior capability in supply planning by understanding and representing current K-C processes, pushing the Global Process Model (GPM) design to include improved, standardized processes and a system solution that addresses current gaps and pain points. In addition, the GPM process and system design should deliver integration with important related processes up and down the supply chain, including S&OP and S&OE processes, detailed scheduling, logistics execution planning, etc.
- This role and the Aurora team will need to identify and manage related master data considerations and metrics as part of the design and collaborate across other workstreams to deliver those as part of the execution. In addition, the solution design and execution should include needed analytics to drive performance and system sustainment.
- Ultimately, this global process lead will work through execution plans and delivery, engaging the regional planning leaders and community to ensure process and system adoption. Together with the Aurora team, this will include development and delivery of the training curriculum to support process and system implementation and adherence.
- Lead the design and implementation development of the supply planning Global Process Model (GPM), metrics & operating systems solutions that deliver to the businesses accurate plans which enable successful execution of business objectives.
- Lead implementation & validation of the planning processes, metrics and systems solutions at region levels of all BUs globally ensuring both the technical and organizational capabilities & support are in place.
- Contribute to the implemention of Planning metrics and the PME, which drive integrated business performance across all functions. Ensure metrics tied to performance of each SC function and drives common objectives across the functions.
- Ensure strong linkages & alignment between the SBP, ABP and Supply planning and the Supply review in the S&OP and S&OE Cycles.
- Ensure the supply management solutions fit well within the S&OP and S&OE Cycles and are driving operational improvements across all functions.
- Foster partnership relations with internal customers and suppliers.
- Lead, develop and maintain expertise, and provide advice, counsel and services, as requested, on supply planning processes, technology, data, processes, organization and metrics, to the global KC community.
- Seeks out best practices through participation in industry groups and benchmarking practices used and/or applicable to the consumer products industry leveraging research partners and services available.
- Lead and support the design, development and roll-out of the Supply Chain Operating Model / System that integrates end to end planning to execution.

**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