ECM Consultant - Wipes

ECM Consultant - Wipes

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.

About You

This role is critical in enabling and advancing the global 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 Moist Wipes 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 and reviewing regional/global innovation plans.


* Define sourcing strategies with Procurement, supporting tenders and make-vs-buy decisions using supplier capability and capacity insight.


* Partner with R&E to build and manage the new-product plan, including timelines and key milestones.


* Influence senior leaders and deliver clear, concise verbal and written updates and reviews.


* Lead cross-functional teams through accountability forums to align stakeholders and drive outcomes.


* Identify key supply and delivery risks early and implement mitigation plans.


* Ensure CFI-compliant asset placement and manage tooling write-offs.


* Coordinate commercialization with Planning/Marketing by managing inventory pre-builds and transitions while minimizing w...