Value Stream SME- Partnership Products / GNW Materials

Value Stream SME- 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  Partnership Products/ GNW Materials 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: Partnership Products and GNW materials. 

Role Accountabilities :

Value stream optimization 


* 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. 



* Serve as the primary contact to leverage manufacturing technologies and process advancement to drive end-to-end optimization,   



* 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  



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



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



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



* 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, benchmarks vs Current Condition and develops gap closure plans. 

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 sector Value Streams, including metrics related to cost, quality, delivery, and customer satisfaction. 



* Identify and mitigate risks within the Value Stream, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and company policies. 
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