Manufacturing Leader - PC

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story.

Ready to lead at the speed of innovation? As a Manufacturing Leader – Personal Care, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.
It starts with YOU
. This role is more than a job - it’s a launchpad for your career. You’ll thrive in a staff role supporting high-speed manufacturing environments, driving operational excellence while preparing for the next step:
Plant Manager and beyond. We offer accelerated development, hands‑on leadership experience, and executive‑level exposure to fast‑track your growth.
Flexibility and mobility are key
—your willingness to relocate opens doors to exciting opportunities across our global network. If you’re energized by challenge, passionate about continuous improvement, and ready to own your future, this is where your leadership journey begins.

In this role, you will play a crucial role in supporting the director by overseeing strategic initiatives, managing special projects, and ensuring effective communication across the manufacturing department. This role requires strong leadership skills, strategic thinking, and the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously. In addition, position requires leadership toensurea healthy and robust pipeline ofgrosscost savings initiatives,with direct oversight of all stages of the process.

The position willlead development and maintain the Cost Transformation Management systemandlead development ofanalyticaltoolsand performance reporting to increasevisibilityof data for improved decision making.

• Collaborate with the Senior Manufacturing and Manufacturing Transformation Director to develop and implement strategic plans for the manufacturing sites.

• Oversee the execution of key initiatives and projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.

• Support Mfg. strategy deployment process in addition to providing support for facility 5-year SBP.

• Provide leadership and guidance to manufacturing teams. Provide business process ownership for the NA Mfg. Management System (Accountability processes, Strategy Deployment, Leader standard work)

• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to enhance overall team efficiency and effectiveness.

• Represent the Senior Manufacturing Director in meetings and communications as needed.

• Assist in the preparation of reports, presentations, and other documents for the Sr. Mfg. Director.

• Monitor and analyze manufacturing operations, providing insights and recommendations for improvement.

• Provide leadership and direction for manufacturingcosttransformationactivities, including the development and implementation of strategies and the plans to achieve.

• Own development of a3-year pipeline of cost savings initiatives.
  
  Lead and coordinate workshops as needed to facilitate the generation of programming ideas to close current year gaps and fill future pipeline.

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.

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.

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