Supply Planner, Inbound

Supply Planner, Inbound

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.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

This position is responsible for the coordination of Raw Material inventory and the execution of inbound business process initiatives for the KCNA businesses.

This position provides informal leadership and coaching of KCNA materials planning teams with respect to inventory health, movement, and flow and is expected to lead and / or participate in various projects which support achieving team objectives.

In this role, you will:


* Perform mid-term responsibilities for inbound material flow.


* Coordinate material inventory plans that support the needs of all KCNA businesses with an objective of achieving customer service objectives at the lowest total delivered cost.


* Lead and execute the RM Statically Managed Inventory (SMI+/SMI) process development, launch, and process health mgt activities for KCNA.


* Provide an inbound logistics perspective in working with the KC warehouse, planning, and vendor teams to identify waste, asset disruption, and flow improvement opportunities to increase efficiency.


* Expected to lead and / or participate in various development projects which support achieving both production site and staff objectives including optimization of overflow warehouse use.


* Coordinate with Strategic Material Planning on material changes to support business plans and minimize obsolescence in collaboration with Procurement, Operations, Vendors, Planning, and Packaging.


* Must actively participate and lead problem solving and continuous process improvement with production/logistics site, staff, and vendor teams.

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 opportunity.

It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose.

Driven by You.

About You

You 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 ...