Continuous Improvement (CI) and Capabilities Manager

Continuous Improvement (CI) and Capabilities Manager

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. 

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.

Summary of position:

Provides strategic leadership for Continuous Improvement (CI) and capabilities processes and teams at the manufacturing site.  This position is responsible to provide leadership to embed a CI and change management mindset.  They will also develop capability and a learning culture through Training 4 Excellence (T4E) standards and processes and drive cost savings and process improvements using various tools and techniques such as Operational Excellence (OPEX) and Lean Six Sigma (LSS) and Fuel to Grow (F2G), while fostering a strong, people first culture for the site.  This position plays a critical role in developing and cascading Regional Improvement strategy, defining metrics, and leveraging influential skills to sponsor cost savings initiatives and efficiencies.

Leadership responsibilities include: Change management, Digital Transformation, Cost savings, and Training teams.

Scope:

Incumbent reports to the site mill manager.  He/She has broad CI and capability development responsibilities for technically complex processes, plant equipment, facilities and personnel.   Along with providing strategic leadership to the team members that report to them, he/she coaches/uses problem solving methods and tools to identify gaps in processes, capability, and culture, identifying opportunities for CI and seeks innovative ways to close those gaps.

Key Customers:

Internal to Mill: Mill Management, Operations, Maintenance, Engineering Teams and other associated mill functional teams (Quality, Logistics, Finance, etc.)

External to Mill: North America and Enterprise Supply Chain Teams

Responsibilities:

Safety:


* Implement loss control throughout the organization by visibly demonstrating that safety is embraced as a value....