Inventory & Production Planning Specialist

Inventory & Production Planning Specialist

Job Description

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 this role, you will:

• Own inventory management for all pilot facility raw materials, work in progress, and finished goods: maintain safety stocks, reorder points, lot sizing, and cycle counting cadence, including inventory variance resolution.
• Manage the Huggies® Hospital production schedule. This includes process order management for the diaper work in progress production as well as the manual inspect/pack operation.
• Coordinate finished goods shipment activities from the facility to the Network Distribution Center’s.
• Coordinate raw material inter-mill material transfers to support required facility trial or production activities.
• Partner with the facility, R&D, Quality, and Procurement teams to align on trial priorities, materials readiness, and changeover plans.
• Manage facility cycle counting activities for impacted production & trial materials and reconcile any variances.
• Support/assist site warehouse team with material storage activities and guidance.
• Support process for ordering specific ops supplies, materials & equipment for the facility.
• Assist the facility quality team with identifying vendor material non-conformances and supporting corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance with all internal controls, SOX-relevant processes, and quality/traceability requirements appropriate for Kimberly-Clark pilot operations.

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.

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:

Required:

• Associates degree or equivalent industry experience
• 3+ year in production planning, inventory management, or materials planning in a manufacturing; pilot, R&D, or short-run environments preferred.
• Hands-on experience with SAP or equivalent ERP/MRP systems
• Proficient with MS-Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, One Note, etc.)
• Deep understanding of MRP, MPS, BOMs/routings, and inventory control methods (cycle count, safety stock, etc.).
• Proven ability to analyze and anticipate material disruptions and proactively develop countermeasures to mitigate.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills

Preferred:

• Experience in pilot facility operations or high-mix/low-volume manufacturing with frequent changeovers and experimental materials.
• Comfortable in a dynamic operating environment
• Strong knowledge of Six Sigma/Lean principles.

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.

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.
 

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.

Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.

Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of il