APAC Manufacturing Director

APAC Manufacturing Director

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®.

At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

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. 

About You

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

The APAC Manufacturing Director leads and transforms Kimberly-Clark’s IFP manufacturing network across the Asia Pacific region.

The leader is accountable for safety, quality, cost, service, productivity, and capability across multiple mills.

This role requires strong multi-country oversight and a significant regional presence (~50% travel) to guide operations, engage leadership teams, and ensure manufacturing outcomes support commercial, category, and customer priorities.

REGIONAL MANUFACTURING LEADERSHIP:


* Provide strategic and operational leadership across all regional manufacturing sites.


* Improve OEE, waste, safety, service, and cost efficiency across mills.


* Set long-term manufacturing strategy in partnership with VP Supply Chain and Business VP(s).


* Drive operational stability while preparing the network for growth, innovation, and portfolio evolution.


* Manage and provide leadership to ECM ( external contract manufacturing ) team to support innovation, localization, and capacity building.

SAFETY, QUALITY & COMPLIANCE:


* Champion a zero-harm culture and drive continuous improvement in safety performance.


* Strengthen quality systems, product compliance, and process capability.


* Ensure readiness for internal and external audits across APAC facilities.


* Lead deployment of safety culture programs, risk management, and regulatory compliance frameworks.

MANUFACTURING EXCELLENCE & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT:


* Lead implementation of Lean, TPM, Autonomous Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, and precision maintenance.


* Accelerate digital manufacturing adoption, including MES, automation, analytics, and predictive technologies.


* Deploy benchmark-driven reliability programs and structured continuous improvement frameworks.


* Lead transformation initiatives focused on capability uplift and unlocking long-term value.

MULTI-COUNTRY OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT:


* Lead and coach Plant Managers across diverse APAC markets.


* Strengthen tec...