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Senior Director, Head of Digital Core
Founded in 1872, Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) is a global Fortune 200 consumer packaged goods (CPG) company with 45,000 employees and annual revenues of $20 billion. Kimberly-Clark (K-C) and its trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for over a billion people in more than 175 countries. Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people’s most essential needs, we create products that help individuals experience more of what’s important to them.
Our portfolio of iconic brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Plenitud, Viva, Softex, Sweety and WypAll, hold the No. 1 or No. 2 share position in 70 countries. Sustainability is at the center of our company and by 2030 we aspire to advance the well-being of one billion people through social programs and reduce our environmental footprint by half. We focus on the areas where we can make the biggest difference – climate, forests, water, and plastics.
After recently celebrating our 150-year anniversary, K-C is in the midst of an exciting transformation from a category-based business to a consumer-led growth platform. Leveraging our purpose-led, performance-driven culture, the company continues to drive growth, fueled by category-defining innovation as we live out our purpose of Better Care for a Better World.
Position Summary
As part of the digital transformation at K-C, SAP S-4 HANA is the new suite for the Digital Core that will replace our current core ERP systems (SAP ECC) that have been in use for over 15 years. This is a large-scale business transformation providing a platform for digitizing Supply Chain and Finance processes and also underpins the next level capabilities in Global Business Services.
Reporting to the Chief Data and Technology Officer, the Senior Director, Head of Digital Core (Senior Director) will lead the S4 program in all activities, including the formation of an SAP CoE, establish the vision for Digital Core, create business cases, architecture, implementation approach and resourcing strategy. Additionally, leveraging the successful upgrade to K-C’s North America systems, this leader and team will now pivot to successfully complete the global process model for rolling out S/4 globally.
Role & Responsibilities
- Managing the transformation and organizational changes required to move to SAP S4 from our current legacy systems.
- Identifying, tracking and presenting metrics supporting business case for program.
- Defining and managing the program scope, quality, schedule and budget.
- Facilitating working relationships between Global Business Services, Supply Chain, IT groups, and business units.
- Directing project managers, Enterprise and Solution architects to manage program level issues, risks and required decisions.
- Collaborating with technical SMEs to translate business needs, evaluate technological implications, and identifying standard system capabilities.
- Bridging cross-functional teams and maintain strong communications across impacted and affected groups.
- Delivering a digital transformation across a complex, matrixed, global enterprise while successfully engaging business stakeholders, internal customers, external partners, and, ultimately, consumers.
- Understanding and assessing KC-built systems to optimize the platform across the global organization.
- Managing the complexity inherent in a large, global, consumer products company with approximately 43,000 employees working across 37 countries in a highly matrixed environment.
- Driving change across a global organization and complexity while bringing the team and business stakeholders along the way.
Professional Skills & Qualifications
The Senior Director, Head of Digital Core will embrace and embody the values of K-C, its brands and its commitment to outstanding products and services, innovation and diversity. This leader must role model the organization’s key leadership behaviors, specifically: build trust, make decisions, win consistently, think consumer, and develop and build talent. They will be a service-oriented leader who is aligned with business value creation and high consumer-orientation with an ability to anticipate and translate strategic business requirements into technology solutions.
The Senior Director will have experience leading transformation projects that include consumer and marketplace-impacting initiatives. Importantly, they will be an outstanding communicator, with the demonstrated ability to clearly and effectively connect with colleagues around the world.
More specifically, the Senior Director, Head of Digital Core will be/possess:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline with an IT focus. MBA or graduate degree in related discipline with a business focus preferred.
- 5+ years in a senior IT role for global CPG or consumer healthcare industries.
- 10+ years’ experience in business process re-engineering or process improvement, involving broad-based information systems, utilizing tools and techniques to effect business results.
- Experience in change management to more fully leverage technology to drive innovation.
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams across cultures, regions and geographies and able to travel 30% of the time.
- Experience managing complex IT partner relationships including offshore resources.
- Ability to think strategically and provide strategic leadership.
- Demonstrated experience in leading the transformation of a complex organization’s use and leverage of technology.
- Demonstrated experience working in a highly matrixed organization and partnering to achieve exceptional business outcomes.
- Ability to develop strong relationship skills with internal and external stakeholders, including up to the C-Suite.
- Ability to drive decisions concerning development methodology, architecture, tools, processes, and resource allocation, and delivering the application solutions.
- Must have proven experience with quality assurance processes and managing to a detailed project plan and budget.
- Demonstrated experience with full life cycle experience in large Global ERP implementations.
- Six Sigma Program and/or continuous improvement experience is a plus.
- Understand requirements, forecast skills, select, and place resources for competency centers (balancing personnel developmental needs and business delivery).
Kimberly-Clark Ways of Working
- Focus on Consumers. We keep the needs of customers and consumers at the center of our work.
- Play to Win. We aim high, measure our results, and live our values because winning with integrity matters.
- Move Fast. We turn decisions into action, remove barriers and seek progress over perfection.
- Grow our People. We champion inclusion and encourage our people to ideate, innovate and contribute to their growth.
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 .
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.
Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.
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.
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.
Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.
Total rewards at Kimberly-Clark includes pay and a full package of benefits that can be tailored to individual needs. The anticipated pay for this job has a range of $240,000-$280,000 in addition to bonus potential.
Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.
Kimberly-Clark will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role, including assistance to obtain proper work authorization. The benefits provided will be per the terms of Kimberly-Clark’s applicable mobility policies.
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