Program Director, Supply Chain – Natural Solutions

Program Director, Supply Chain – Natural Solutions

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.

In this role, you will:

Take work direction from the VP of Global Supply Chain Transformation and will work with team members of the Natural Solutions business unit as well as existing Kimberly-Clark functional leaders at ELT level and below.

Be the voice of Kimberly-Clark’s efforts to deliver sustainable technologies and deliver status updates to peers and senior executives across the company.

• Drive some of the most difficult and challenging work, coordinate end-to-end processes across all functions involved in delivering sustainable technologies.
• Provide expert project management and/or coaching support for highly complex projects.
• Program tracking and common project management principles and highlighting issues that come up that requires senior management/sponsor level decisions and resource allocation.
• Supporting the shaping, steering and implementing of a consistent approach and message concerning the delivery of sustainable technologies.
• Provide recommendations, advice/counsel and support to Natural Solutions and Supply Chain leadership teams on project-related matters (direct & indirect).
• Run a Program Steering Team and Sponsors Team review meetings and follow up to ensure action items are completed on time.
• Work closely with Finance to ensure that the spending forecast and actuals are tracked closely, and issues identified and highlighted and ensure that the teams comply with CFI norms.
• Coach and guide the PMO team under this role.
• Build, track, update the integrated project execution critical path schedule for the program and track and update the schedule weekly.
• Identify potential issues with scheduling and budget spend and ensure they are highlighted and actions taken to create mitigation plans.
• Coordinate work of all the functions involved in delivery sustainable technologies including potentially new to Kimberly-Clark functions.
• Coach and guide the PMO team under this role.

About Us

Huggies. Kleenex. Cottonelle. Scott. Kotex. Poise. Depend. Kimberly-Clark Professional. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results.

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

• 15+ years’ experience leading complex projects locally, regionally and globally.
• Good understanding of Kimberly-Clark organization and strategies.
• Broad knowledge of Kimberly-Clark systems, financial processes & data across Kimberly-Clark regions-functions-businesses.
• Agile, innovative, and critical thinker with a good digital foundation & thought leadership.
• Experience in managing stakeholders across functions and locations.
• Experience in managing multi-functional operations and/or large-scale project.

Leadership

• Strong leadership and influencing skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly and confidently to senior leadership of the segment and company.
• Challenge the status quo and facilitate different perspectives to drive solutions.
• Capable of working in a matrix organization, driving collaboration across businesses and functions.
• Demonstrated personal credibility and positive energy.
• Enthusiastic, resilient and able to manage stressful situations.
• Innovative capabilities, requiring strategic thinking and foresight.

Functional/Business Skills

• Experienced strategic thinker and project manager.
• Demonstrated problem solving, facilitation and business acumen skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Strong ability to apply internal controls and ethical practices.
• Ability to build project business case and value framework.
• Ability to