Production Planner

Production Planner

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 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.

About You

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.

As the Production Planner for our plant in Salamanca, you will be responsible for coordinating and auditing mill production planning and material scheduling in a way that cost‑effectively meets business requirements.

You will play a critical part in ensuring production plans, material availability and system accuracy align with sales demand and manufacturing capability across mill and external manufacturing locations.

You will report to the Tactical and Mill Planning Leader and you will be an individual contributor (no direct reports).

Location: we can offer a hybrid model (Madrid Office / on remote) for candidates already based in Spain.

Some regular visits to Salamanca Mill will be required once a month.

Key Accountabilities:


* Ensure and implement efficient management of ongoing plant / mill production plans to support sales demand and production capability.


* Ensure and implement material ordering and scheduling for the mill and relevant external manufacturing locations, including raw materials and packaging.


* Lead stock capacity planning and inventory management for principal materials.


* Lead and participate in mill and external system development initiatives to optimize resource utilization and improve the accuracy, timeliness and usefulness of planning data.


* Maintain mill internal control systems in line with Kimberly‑Clark CFI requirements.


* Collaborate with mill, regional and sector EMEA stakeholders across operations, logistics, sales, marketing and product planning.


* Lead rapid resolution of production planning issues arising from forecast changes or unplanned production interruptions.


* Support continuous improvement of mill systems and procedures for monitoring material usage.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Required Qualifications:


* Previous experien...