Director, Enterprise Value Stream - Competitive Strategy

at  KimberlyClark

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. At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands and take our future to the next level. In this role with K-C’s procurement team, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.
Kimberly-Clark is looking for an ambitious, self-driven, and talented individual to drive competitive landscape assessment, benchmarking, and strategic planning to identify opportunities for end-to-end value stream. Reporting to the VP of Enterprise Value Stream, the incumbent will also be responsible for the overall value stream strategic planning process, building global connected data/analytics to identify opportunities and inform value stream strategy. Seeking a strategic thinker with strong leadership abilities, collaborative mind set, deep analytical skills, exceptional communication skills, and a passion for driving results.

ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

Competitive Assessment and Benchmarking

• Establish process and routinely update competitive supply chain intelligence research on key parameters, competitor moves and overall value stream.
• Understand drivers of success among competition, key value enablers and comparative metrics – connecting ABU segment/sector market & competitive landscape, drivers & opportunities to inform our strategies & priorities.
• Link external intelligence benchmarks to our internal value chain and performance metrics (products and process) to drive towards top quartile performance.
• Articulate the value proposition of our competitive strategy and influence resource allocation and investment decisions.

Value Stream Strategic planning

• Detail advantaged actions and initiatives that can set up value chain for cost efficiency, deliver target cost savings and drive consumer value.
• Translate business / enterprise strategy and objectives to value stream requirements.
• Coordinate with capital teams for sufficiency planning, and ensure strong capital efficiency (improve ROIC)
• Develop strong commercial partnership and deep understanding of customers and consumers.

Value Stream Optimization

• Champion and facilitate the connected strategy and framework development for Personal Care, Family Care, ECM and Professional including the associated mfg. technology process and Segment/ ABU connection with the Enterprise Value Chain
• Support & conduct value stream analysis, generate insights by collaborating & building global connected data & reports (business partner with DTS as an example)
• Enable value stream current state: strategic state analysis with connected data & analytics to inform step change performance end-to-end at the enterprise & segment levels by sector & platform.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL NEED THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations Management, or related field; Advanced degree / MBA preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including Power BI; Supply Chain Management systems.
• Proficient in manufacturing asset technologies, 4-wall set up, PPI, commodities, and global logistics with strong understanding of lean principles, six sigma methodologies, and other process improvement techniques.
• 10+ years of experience in value stream, operations management – specifically in CPG, B2B industry with proven track record of driving process improvements.
• Proven experience in Competitive Strategy and Supply Chain Management
• Experience in end-to-end innovation cycles, product design, DtV, and international markets required; Consulting experience preferred
• ELT and board level communications (storytelling and structuring) and interpersonal skills.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Change management experience, with a track record of driving successful change initiatives.
• Results-oriented with a focus on delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Occasional global travel may be required to support the business (up to 25%).