Digital Supply Chain Partner - APAC

　　Job Description

　　About Us

　　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, 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day, and it takes the absolute best people to make that happen.

　　We're founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we're always looking for new and better ways to perform, especially when it comes to product and process innovation. Our customers are always looking for new and better. Our competitors won't stop evolving. And our communities demand responsible corporate practices. We need bold, transformative ideas from people who can turn them into reality. That means there's no time like the present to make an impact here. It's all waiting for you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to log on!

　　Led by Purpose, Driven by You.

　　About You

　　You love what you do, especially when your work makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we're constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you'll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

　　Scope/Categories:

　　Key Interfaces: Planning, Procurement and Supply Chain/Warehousing in APAC. Co-create the future of Digital Supply Chain and drive efficiencies with APAC stakeholders and customers, global and functional Business Partners, Capability Directors, Delivery Engine Leadership, external delivery partners and software vendors.

　　Key Accountabilities:

　　• Lead digital product strategy and programs for planning, procurement and SC/warehousing in APAC. Co-create technology roadmap to deliver capabilities that enrich and enable Supply Chain digital experiences.

　　• Act as an entrepreneur, performing market and competitive analysis to inform product innovation.

　　• Actively guide and inspire the APAC team around the vision and feature priorities for APAC. Ensure that this vision is integrated into the overall APAC Supply Chain Product vision.

　　• Work with APAC Supply Chain Product Owner to break down complex problems into actionable steps to drive product strategy, innovation, and development. Understand the global strategic SC vision and releases, starting with pilots and/or minimal viable products, and then drive scalability across APAC.

　　• Partner with Product Supply stakeholders to understand needs/requirements to be included in APAC roadmap.

　　• Works closely with development teams and/or guide Product Owners to implement the product requirements.

　　• Build the business cases with APAC and IT Leaders to secure funds for APAC Product Supply product team for a specified time.

　　• Product lifecycle including development of features, deployment of roadmaps, and measurement and management of adoption.

　　• Establish tradeoffs between internal development and business partnerships, works with stakeholders for investment, product maintenance, product changes, forecasting and financials.

　　• Create, manage, and prioritize APAC Product Supply backlog to streamline execution of APAC objectives. Manage vendors to ensure software roadmaps and delivery of features are completed based on agreed SLAs and pricing models.

　　• Ensure that volume of work flowing to team optimizes team performance.

　　• Maximize the value of the APAC SC Product over its lifecycle by defining and owning capabilities ROI, including budget and/or P&L.

　　• Provision technology, including vendor research, request for proposals, and partnering with Procurement on vendor selection and contracts.

　　• Understanding of cyber risks, Kimberly-Clark security posture, processes, and procedures to ensure compliance to Kimberly-Clark IT security and controls framework

　　• Establish trusted relationships with key APAC SC stakeholders and being a connected, influential player with SC Global Leadership.

　　• Engage and motivate employees and resources with effective communication to promote a high performing, agile and focused team environment.

　　• Support metric definition, risk identification, and remediation.

　　• Champion the business unit capabilities and develop workshops to identify opportunities and develop project plans to implement as well as enhancements to existing capabilities to improve efficiency, product yield, and equipment reliability.

　　• Act as a liaison with Engineering and APAC product supply capabilities of new projects and/or new processes. This will involve designing and administering projects in accordance with the innovation review process.

　　• Leads in troubleshooting and resolving equipment, systems, and process problems to prevent the occurrence of product and process issues.

　　• Consistently demonstrates the One Kimberly-Clark behaviors. Maintains and evolves cultural awareness; acts with global fluency. Adopts a test and learn, fail fast mindset with calculated risk taking.

　　• Demonstrates growth mindset and promotes a learning culture. Takes personal accountability for self-development, while building and developing talent around them.

　　• Continuously upskilling employees and self on needed functional and technical skills required to meet Kimberly-Clark's growing digital portfolio and changing technology needs.

　　• Leads others to complete Continuous Improvements (CI) initiatives; consults and shares knowledge across organization.

　　• Ensure insight and understanding of "best practices" and keeping pace with competition and peer companies.

　　Key Qualifications and Experiences:

　　• Bachelor's degree, ideally in IT or a business administration or international trade.

　　• A minimum of 10 - 15 years related experience in Logistics and Procurement is required.

　　• Ability to inspire a team to move fast and be jointly accountable for Supply Chain efficiency and optimization.

　　• Ability to maintain ROI / budget / P&L.

　　• Experience with cost/benefit analysis is preferred.

　　• Certified Product Owner or scrum master (Desired).

　　• Experience implementing Agile methodologies as a team member (e.g. developer, tester, etc.)

　　• Experience in coaching, mentoring, and supporting other Product Owners.

　　• Domain knowledge around Supply Chain, procurement.

　　• Strong statistical and analytical skills are required.

　　• Excellent technical writing skills are required.

　　• SAP domain experience is desired.

　　• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, communication, listening, negotiating, problem-solving and decision-making skills are required.

　　• Experience as a change agent at multiple levels of an organization.

　　• Outstanding organizational, communication, interpersonal, relationship-building skills conducive to collaboration at all levels.

　　• Ability to navigate and influence senior level leaders within a large, matrix organization is a must.

　　This role will be reporting to CIO-APAC

　　Ability to work in a virtual team which may work across distance (remote), cultures and time zones, in a matrix with multiple reporting lines, and may extend outside the Kimberly-Clark organization including suppliers, partners and customers.

　　To Be Considered

　　Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

　　In the meantime, check out the careers website. You'll want to review this and come prepared with relevant questions if and when you pass GO and begin interviews.

　　And finally, the fine print... For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

　　This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role's country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.

　　Primary Location

　　IT Centre Bengaluru GDTC

　　Additional Locations

　　Worker Type

　　Employee

　　Worker Sub-Type

　　Regular

　　Time Type

　　Full time