Life Cycle Management Specialist
Life Cycle Management Specialist
Job Description
Lifecyle Management Specialist
Job post-closing date: End of day, Monday 19th January 2026
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.
The main purpose of this role is:
* Project management of mainstream Cost Transformation and Design to Value product specification change programs through Innovation Management Framework gates & processes and change control.
* Sustain current Products, Processes, and Materials, at optimum cost to ensure continuity of the Consumer/Brand Experience
* Lead Implementation of Global / Regional Innovation of projects
* Lead the qualification work of Cost Transformation activities related to product and materials.
* Lead gathering of insight development from competitive data for local key products.
In this role, you will:
* Manage projects to deliver the CT / DtV program in an efficient way and build on best practice tools, and strong mitigation plans with stakeholders / project multifunctional team.
* Identify resources requirements and create multifunctional project teams to execute DtV
* Work to agreed safety standards, act as an example and comply with company & country safety regulations.
* Support the team to lead the local implementation of Regional Renovation & Innovation projects from a product point of view.
* Implement regional product Improvement plans in partnership with Product Developers, Marketing & Plant in line with agreed strategy & country.
* Lead the implementation of Plant cost transformation initiatives relating Baby & Child Care product and materials.
* Provide technical mentoring to support the Plant for the implementation of product and equipment changes and provide technical direction to multifunction teams for LCM activities.
* Ensure security of material supply through qualification of local material vendors and manage material issues and risks prioritising mitigation efforts and disaster recovery.
* Represent the interests of the customer / shopper / chooser / user within the facility by interfacing with Marketing, Quality & Plant Operation as appropriate.
* Drive consumer understanding as related to product use.
Participate in initiatives that aim to improve consumer satisfaction & where necessary lead projects to eliminate / reduce product design sources of consumer dissatisfaction or complaint.
* Ensure facility compliance with Corporate, Sector and Regulatory requirements.
Work with Regional team to ensure knowledge of comp...
- Rate: Not Specified
- Location: Bryanston, ZA-GT
- Type: Permanent
- Industry: Science
- Recruiter: Kimberly-Clark Corporation
- Contact: Not Specified
- Email: to view click here
- Reference: 883038
- Posted: 2026-01-13 07:40:26 -
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