Global Planning Excellence Manager

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.This role will be part of Kimberly Clark's International Family Care and Professional (IFP) business—an organization rooted in purpose and innovation that has built a legacy with global impact. As Kimberly-Clark forms a strategic partnership with Suzano to create a world-class international tissue and professional products company, this role is proposed to transfer to the new venture once the transaction closes, anticipated in mid-2026, subject to consultation and other applicable legal requirements.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape a new global leader backed by two industry powerhouses. You’ll be part of a high-potential business that combines Kimberly-Clark’s iconic brands and commercial excellence with Suzano’s industrial and sustainability leadership.

About You 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.

As Global Planning Excellence Team Leader, you will lead the governance and continuous enhancement of global demand and supply planning processes, metrics, systems, S&OP process and organisational capabilities through system optimisation, analytical support and process improvement.

This is not a behind-the-scenes role. You will be the primary strategic leader for demand and supply planning processes and system enablement, partnering with and influencing senior executives, operational planning leaders and teams, IT, and external vendors across multiple business units and geographies. You will also lead the Planning Centre of Excellence team, driving system optimization, global best practices, capability building, and performance improvement.

In this role, you will fundamentally transform how demand and supply planning are executed worldwide—elevating performance, consistency, and results.

This role will be responsible for but not limited to:

Own and lead global demand and supply planning processes and systems, acting as the global process owner and primary authority across forecasting, supply planning, production scheduling, raw material planning, deployment planning, and S&OP. Ensure all processes are aligned with business unit strategies, wider supply chain objectives, and customer requirements.

Drive system and process optimisation, providing thought leadership on demand and supply planning tools and methodologies. Partner closely with IT and external vendors to implement, enhance, and continuously improve planning systems that are scalable, future‑ready, and fit for purpose.

Own the global Sales & Operations Planning process, supporting business units to achieve and sustain gold‑standard S&OP maturity. Ensure strong cross‑functional integration, robust governance, and effective decision‑making to balance demand, supply, cost, cash, and service.

Define, oversee, and communicate key performance indicators for demand and supply planning and S&OP. Drive measurable improvements in forecast accuracy, service levels, inventory performance, cost to serve, and overall supply chain effectiveness. Work closely with the Analytics team to turn data into strategy, developing performance frameworks that convert raw data into actionable insights. Enable smarter, faster decision‑making that directly improves cost, cash, service, and operational performance.

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