Contract Manufacturing Consultant

Contract Manufacturing Consultant

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Andrex®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: as a person, you’re a problem-solver – a connector – someone who thrives on creating order from complexity and driving continuous improvement.

You see the big picture while mastering the details, ensuring that every product, process, and partnership flows with precision and purpose.

You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity, efficiency, and collaboration, always working to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s success stories.

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

It starts with YOU.

This role will be part of Kimberly Clark's International Family Care and Professional (IFP) business—an organization rooted in purpose and innovation that has built a legacy with global impact.

As Kimberly-Clark forms a strategic partnership with Suzano to create a world-class international tissue and professional products company, this role is proposed to transfer to the new venture once the transaction closes, anticipated in mid-2026, subject to consultation and other applicable legal requirements.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape a new global leader backed by two industry powerhouses.

You’ll be part of a high-potential business that combines Kimberly-Clark’s iconic brands and commercial excellence with Suzano’s industrial and sustainability leadership.

About You

This role is critical in enabling and advancing the EMEA supply chain’s strategic use of External Manufacturing for Kimberly‑Clark’s consumer businesses, with end‑to‑end leadership of the external manufacturing network for the Tissue platform.

The role directly manages 5–15 external manufacturers and an annual spend of $20–50m, building strong strategic partnerships to ensure cost, quality, service, and sustainability objectives are consistently met.

 The role leads end-to-end supply chain programs across planning, procurement, third-party manufacturing, logistics, regulatory and quality, working with both existing and new partners.

In partnership with Procurement, Planning, Marketing, Quality/Regulatory and R&E, it sets sourcing and capability strategies, oversees commercialization and qualification, and drives supplier performance, risk mitigation, capacity and asset decisions to enable launches and product improvements.

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

This role will be responsible for but not limited to: 


* Align supply implications with business-unit strategy by partnering cross-functionally an...