Logistics Manager - Materials

Location: Beech Island

Logistics Manager
- Materials

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.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Responsible for the $31 million inventory of raw materials, semi-finished goods, and finishing supplies at the largest Kimberly-Clark Mill, Beech Island. This role oversees all physical and logical flows of materials on-site and at overflow locations, ensuring accurate and timely delivery to the production line.  By driving strategic initiatives, developing capabilities of the team, and delivering key metrics, the Materials Manager ensures that we continuously improve our processes to keep delivering value.  

Leading a high-performing Materials Flow team and partnering with our third-party Logistics team, this role will set the vision and objectives for a team of approximately five hundred people.
At Beech Island, we are dedicated to our vision of "One Beech Island, We are the Difference
- Valued, Included, and Respected," and the Materials Manager plays an integral role in delivering this vision every day.

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. 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 manufacturing roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. Job responsibilities include:

Thought leader for all material movements and information flows to ensure that we continue to meet the requirements of the safety, quality, internal control, and business systems.

Responsible for the flow of materials through the mill’s campus.  Through building a high-performing team, upholding clearly defined standard processes, problem solving, and removing barriers, Beech Island will continue to be an innovative leader information and physical flows

Manage all the areas to ensure we have enough space for forecasted volumes and escalate to staff logistics for help when we are outside our guardrails.

Collaborate with work streams up and down the supply chain.  Provide and receive feedback to ensure that we continuously improve our methods and execution.

Maintain strong data integrity to deliver accurate financials through many processes including production reporting reconciliation, inventory management, flow planning, receiving/issuing/shipping, shortages, yard management, lift truck management, third party labor management, stock transfer orders, transportation planning, and WMS/EWM/SAP. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:5+ years of logistics experience, including both tactical and strategic roles

Bachelor’s or advanced degree

Leadership experience, either formally or through influence

Proficient in analyzing, developing strategies, and executing plans effectively.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

Total Benefits We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.​​Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark.

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