Technical Strategist - Tissue Manufacturing

Technical Strategist - Tissue Manufacturing

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. 

In this role, you will:

This role will be responsible to provide technical leadership and champion the technical vision in the design, development, optimization, and commercialization of mechanical and process capabilities across NA Fiber, Stock System and Tissue Machine assets.

Value stream optimization

• Detail advantaged actions and initiatives that can reduce cost, drive consumer value and sustain identified advantage in the market
• Work closely with various departments of the business (e.g., Operations, R&D, Sales, and Marketing) to translate business strategy to VS requirements and improve overall VS
• Strong commercial partnership and understanding of the customers and consumers to ensure the supply chain can deliver as expected
• Support sourcing strategy, ensure business continuity, and negotiation leverage
• Coach and mentor team members to increase technical understanding and capabilities to drive NA Tissue business results.
• Conceive, develop, validate, and share ideas leading to new or improved products, processes, materials, systems or scientific knowledge aligned with business unit objectives.
• Maintain technical and scientific expertise in Fiber development, Stock Systems and Tissue Machine manufacturing to understand and communicate impact of developments on K-C.
• Protect and defend K-C proprietary technology, products, and business processes through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets

Goal setting and performance management

• Bring the outside in, ensure competitive understanding, industry benchmarks and global internal capabilities
• Define and monitor KPIs to measure the effectiveness of the VS, including metrics related to cost, quality, delivery, and customer satisfaction
• Identify and mitigate risks within the VS, ensuring compliance with industry regulations and company policies

Fiber Processing

• Drive the Fiber Process technology advancement roadmap, tied to the innovation roadmap, the asset strategy and process advancements
• Collaborate with R&D, Manufacturing and Capital Engineering teams to deliver cost savings,  product improvements and sustainability goals by optimizing virgin, recycle and broke fiber mix

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 or higher in Engineering or related field
• 12+ years of Tissue Manufacturing or Fiber Processing experience
• Proven track record of driving process improvements
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with proficiency in data-driven decision-making
• Proven track record of coaching and developing te