Product Owner

**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.

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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.

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**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.

Kimberly-Clark is seeking a Product Owner to join our Digital Technology Solutions (DTS) department, a role critical to driving our digital transformation initiatives. As a Product Owner, you are at the heart of maximizing product value, responsible for articulating and prioritizing the product backlog items for a Scrum team. You will own the product backlog and ensure that the team builds the right product increments in the most efficient manner.

Your key responsibilities include executing the product vision, managing the backlog, and collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams to develop innovative solutions that address customer needs and align with business goals. You will work in an open, collaborative, and approachable manner with the product team (software engineers), inspiring optimal solutions that solve real customer problems and challenging the team to discover the smartest, most efficient solutions.

This position offers the opportunity to significantly impact product direction, ensuring operational efficiency and enhanced customer satisfaction. As a Product Owner at Kimberly-Clark, you will play a crucial role in ensuring that our technology solutions are not only effective but also innovative and aligned with the strategic objectives of the company. This is an excellent opportunity for a leader looking to make a meaningful impact in a global corporation while shaping the future of our digital operations.

Kimberly-Clark has an amazing opportunity to continue leading the market, and DTS is poised to deliver compelling and robust digital capabilities, products, and solutions to support it. This role will have substantial influence in this endeavor.

**Scope/Categories**:
Role will report to the Associate Director, North America Digital Supply Chain and Manufacturing. This position has oversight on external/internal resources.

Travel may include approximately 15% of work time.

**Key Interfaces**:
Internal: Transportation Leadership, Transportation Logistics Product Manager, Mill Logistics Operations Leadership

External: Contractors, Consulting Partners, 3rd Party service providers.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- ** Work closely with Product Managers and stakeholders** to define product backlog according to the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. Ensure that the product backlog items solve business problems identified by the Product Manager and stakeholders.
- Accountable for **Product Backlog Management** by creating and clearly communicating product backlog items with stakeholders, product managers and Scrum team (including engineering manager); routinely **refining and prioritizing** the product backlog items balancing product development, BAU-'Business as Usual', engineering work, and bug remediation while delivering product value. Maintain a **healthy and transparent product backlog** to ensure that the scrum team has adequate visibility and understanding of upcoming work.
- Create and maintain **effective release plans** based on the delivery team’s. available capacity. Set release goals, in coordination with the Product Manager and the delivery