Manager, Supply Planning - Personal Care Shared Materials

Manager, Supply Planning - Personal Care Shared Materials

Job Description

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.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

In this role as Manager, Supply Planning you and your team will be at the forefront of ensuring the seamless coordination and optimization of supply chain processes for the North America Personal Care shared materials inbound team.

This team is integral to achieving North America business objectives, and in this role your leadership will be key in navigating complex challenges and fostering a collaborative environment that promotes continuous improvement.

This requires a strategic thinker who understands the detailed connections in the supply chain, is a skilled communicator, and responsive and engaging leader.

This position is based in Neenah, WI and reports to the Associate Director, Inbound Planning as a part of the broader NA Supply Chain Planning organization.

In this role, you will:


* Lead the NA Personal Care Personal Care Inbound team, ensuring the team works in a fully aligned manner as part of the NA Supply Chain Planning organization to aid the achievement of North America business objectives


* Build an assertive, proactive, results-oriented team that is passionate about winning through teamwork.

Identify and hire top-tier talent; maximize team member effectiveness by providing ongoing coaching and feedback; create opportunities for growth and development


* Monitor and ensure regular reviews of targets to hit or exceed objectives


* Ensure short-term materials availability to operate assets within inventory ranges, while also forecasting mid and long-term materials to guarantee supplier capacity aligns with our S&OP production plans.

Collaborate with procurement to maintain tracking of vendor contracts commitments.


* Fully participate and at time lead in the planning for major activities including new product launches, rollovers; process improvement, system enhancements; crisis management


* Participate in strategic development and implementation of Supply Chain Planning NA - Inbound Planning management tools and processes that support delivering NA S&OP plans.


* Represent Materials events in the weekly Sector Control Tower forums, following the Materials escalation process.

Take ownership of communicating materials constraints to key stakeholders.

About Us

Huggies®.

Kleenex®.

Cottonelle®.

Scott®.

Kotex®.

Poise®.

Depend®.

Kimberly-Clark Professional®.

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