UK Transport & Logistics Supervisor

UK Transport & Logistics Supervisor

Job Description

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.

About You

The UK Transport & Logistics Supervisor is a key role within the Kimberly‑Clark Personal Care Supply Chain, with responsibility for end‑to‑end transport governance, supplier performance, and continuous improvement across the UK, alongside extended accountability for inbound flows across EMEA and APAC.

The role supports the oversight of a pan‑European full and part‑load road transport operation, acting as a senior escalation point for customer logistics, freight, and service issues.

Working closely with Customer Service, Planning, Demand, and Marketing teams, the role helps protect service levels, enable growth initiatives, and deliver cost‑effective, reliable logistics solutions.

In addition, the role will periodically deputise for the UK Logistics Leader and lead logistics projects, product launches, UK 3PL and 4PL performance management, and customer issue resolution.

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.

This role will be responsible for but not limited to: 


* Own UK 4PL contract delivery, service and compliance.


* Lead UK 3PL performance across freight execution and customer delivery.


* Manage supplier relationships to ensure KPI/contractual adherence, set tendering and supplier strategies to optimise service and cost, and maintain a transport technology and service improvement roadmap.


* Own UK OTIF performance across 4PL/3PL operations, including dashboards, review cadence, recovery plans and lean/root-cause corrective and preventive actions; lead senior escalation for transport and delivery disruptions.


* Control and report incremental freight costs, premiums and ad-hoc requests.


* Deliver headwind reduction via Fuel to Grow and cost-to-serve initiatives.


* Lead UK freight cost transformation and share best practice across EMEA.


* Partner with 4PL/3PLs to unlock value, innovation and improved outcomes.


* Act as the primary logis...