CI and Capabilities Manager & Site OPEX Leader

CI and Capabilities Manager & Site OPEX Leader 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.

SUMMARY: Provides strategic leadership for Continuous Improvement (CI) and capabilities processes and teams at the manufacturing site.  This position is responsible for providing 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. As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

In one of our manufacturing 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: Safety: Implement loss control throughout the organization by visibly demonstrating that safety is embraced as a value.  Support and Champion safety in your manufacturing site and team by driving educational and behavioral processes through the application of OPEX, LSS and T4E tools.  Lead your team to complete safety objectives and ensure a safe working environment. Quality:  Champion and support Continuous Improvement and T4E programs and processes as the way to deliver quality and process capability improvements. Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. People: Focus on Organizational Transformation and Culture: Manage yourself in accordance with the Ways of Working.  Manage, develop, and support direct reports (T4E Leader, Digital Manufacturing Leader) to effectuate changes and developments throughout the site and within each function. Provide high-level planning with the oversight and/or hands-on execution of the four key areas of Change Management related to site specific initiatives. Delivery: Provide strategy to build capability of all team members at the site through the Training 4 Excellence program: Provide leadership support to your T4E leader in their efforts to develop, facilitate and manage the site’s training strategies aligned to the regional strategy, including providing leadership to the training specialists. Ensure respective team members are active participants in regional networks in the areas they support, sharing learnings and adopting and applying one best way standards and process. Ensure collaboration between T4E and Digital Manufacturing to drive training and usage throughout the site. Delivery: Provide strategic direction to drive Continuous Improvement, using standard tools and processes, across all functions in the site: Provide Strategic leadership for site’s CI programs and efforts. Reinforce the iOPEX processes and tools to ensure sustainability of the iOPEX program. Ensure standardization through CI and Culture of Accountability (CoA) practices Provide continuous feedback to leadership team, consistent with OPEX mindsets, the 6 K-C Behaviors and CoA