Head of People Strategy, Planning, Portfolio & Transformation

Head of People Strategy, Planning, Portfolio & Transformation

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. 

 

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.  

About You

 

In one of our professional 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:

 

This role leads the strategy, planning, portfolio governance and transformation execution agenda for the global People function.

It is accountable for building the operating discipline, governance model, planning rhythm and delivery engine required to stand up a new People operating model across COEs, GBS, Digital Technology, regional teams and enabling partners.

The role requires a leader who can move from strategy to execution quickly, define business processes and ownership clearly, drive change at scale, and operate with autonomy, courage and accountability in a high-complexity integration environment.

 

This role requires a ready-now leader with significant transformation experience and a track record of moving complex work from strategy through delivery.

Candidates must bring direct experience leading enterprise-scale transformation, operating-model implementation, global planning and governance, and HR technology-enabled change.

The successful candidate will be expected to operate with independence from day one, bring structure to ambiguity, challenge senior leaders constructively, and deliver outcomes at pace.

 

What this role will own

 


* Define and lead the global People planning and governance model, including annual roadmap planning, quarterly prioritization, portfolio health reviews, dependency management and decision discipline.

This role will provide input to the Integration Planning and Communications Team to ensure the Business as Usual activity is connected to the broader Integration roadmap.


* Stand up the operating model required to connect strategy, work definition, business process ownership, GBS delivery, COE accountability and technology enablement.


* Partner with GBS to define which work should move, when it should move, what business processes must be clarified, and what ownership model is required to sustain service quality.


* Lead transformation delivery through agile-like wa...