Supply Chain Sr. Consultant

Supply Chain Sr. Consultant

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. 

As the Senior Consultant, you will provide leadership, project management and strategic and functional support to distribution operations and projects, with a key focus and accountability for the following areas: 

• Distribution Network Productivity Management

• KCNA RDC and Plant DC Finished Goods and Materials Storage and Flow

• WAVE Delivery of Productivity Team initiatives

You will also provide leadership, project management and strategic and functional support for finished goods and material logistics operation for Kimberly-Clark North America (KCNA) Regional DC’s, Plant DC’s, and Overflow sites.  You will also help create and drive operations standardization across the network and establish new/improved capabilities with focus in the areas of operational execution, productivity, physical layout & flow optimization, 3PL Cost Model development, 3PL relationship management, strategic/transformational program development, and supporting the implementation and operations of automated environments. 

In this role, you will:

• Partner with Site & Staff Distribution teams, and 3PL partners, to lead the labor productivity management system and related improvement programs designed to achieve sustainable, best-in-class productivity results versus defined engineering standards

• Partner with cross-functional and 3PL partners, suppliers, and site & staff Logistics teams to lead the development and implementation of Finished Goods and Material Storage and Flow strategies and best practices, including optimizing storage efficiency

• Actively support Talent Development for the KCNA Productivity Team through coaching, mentoring, providing feedback, and participating in interviewing/talent acquisition process

• Develop and drive Logistics strategies at 3PL Operated Regional DC’s and Plant attached DCs in conjunction with site Logistics Leaders around Finished Goods / Materials storage and flow

• Create and own processes to build Logistics standardization across Regional DC’s and Plant DCs

• Facilitate strategic collaboration with Planning and Manufacturing to drive continuous improvement in end-to-end Kimberly-Clark supply chain execution

• Identify and support implementation of distribution programs designed to deliver external cost savings (ECS) and enter and provide updates into WAVE

• Take operational ownership of key DC initiatives as needed, ensuring effective project management, including new DC start-up activities

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, 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.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
You love what you do, especially when the work you do 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.

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. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 7 years or more of relevant work experience, in Dist