Associate Director, Enterprise Value Stream - Partnership Products & GNW Materials

Associate Director, Enterprise Value Stream - Partnership Products & GNW Materials

Job 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 the Partnership Products Value Stream with focus on B2B Commercialization of nonwovens to noncompeting industries to optimize KC’s asset utilization building end-to-end Value Stream designs, strategic planning, cross-functional collaboration, and continuous improvement efforts to enhance efficiency, quality, and innovation across the product lifecycle.  This includes value streams for products in 4 key categories: Sorbents, Delivery Systems, Filtration, Building Materials). 

Role Accountabilities 

Value stream optimization 


* Detail advantaged actions and initiatives that can reduce cost and drive consumer value 


* Orchestrate ESC teams to Advance, Innovate and design for the Partnership Products value streams 


* Work closely with various departments of the business (e.g., Operations, R&D, Sales, and Marketing) to improve the overall VS 


* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize and create top level initiatives to drive end-to-end value stream for the sector 


* Translates business strategy to VS requirements 


* Drive robustness in make versus buy analysis with ECM and internal partners, while ensuring strong capital efficiency 


* Strong commercial partnership and understanding of the customers and consumers to ensure the supply chain can deliver as expected 


* Support sourcing strategy, ensure business continuity, and negotiation leverage 


* Defines / manages definition of Target Condition and plan to achieve 


* Manages segment VS execution plan 

Goal setting and performance management 


* Bring the outside in, ensure competitive understanding, industry benchmarks and global internal capabilities 


* Define and monitor KPIs to measure the effectiveness of the Partnership Products VS, including metrics related to cost, quality, delivery, and customer satisfaction 


* Identify and mitigate risks within the VS, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and company policies 

New product and process innovation 


* Drive the manufacturing technology advancement roadmap, understanding global asset capabilities and needs, tied to the innovation roadmap, the asset strategy and process advancements 
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