Senior Director, Head of Digital Core - Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Roswell, GA 30075
About the Job
Job Description
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.
At K-C, treating individuals with respect is the way we do business and the way we lead our industry and our world. We’re building an organization that looks and thinks like our customers around the world and searching for talented people with different perspectives and varied backgrounds.
At K-C, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all herefor you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to log on! Led by Purpose. Driven by You.
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
After full program mobilization, this role will lead all IT functional aspects of the program, including responsibility for:
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. Building strong customer relationships and delivering consumer-centric solutions. Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies that delight our consumers.
Play to Win. We aim high, measure our results, and live our values because winning with integrity matters. Setting aggressive goals and consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances. Pushing past status quo to create new and better ways to solve problems and win.
Move Fast. We turn decisions into action, remove barriers and seek progress over perfection. Stepping up to champion ideas, address difficult issues and say what needs to be said. Tackling challenges with a sense of urgency, seizing new opportunities, and scaling winning solutions.
Grow our People. We champion inclusion and encourage our people to ideate, innovate and contribute to their growth. Encouraging diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds that enable our winning culture. Placing a high priority on developing self and others to meet career goals and the organization’s goals.
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 illness, injury, or other unexpected events.
Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.
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. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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. Individual pay levels will be based on multiple factors including, but are not limited to, location, role, skill set, and level of experience.
Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact 866-444-4516 – when prompted for employee ID, say “OTHER CALLER” - or kcchrprod@service-now.com for assistance. You must include the six-digit Job # with your request.
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. The benefits/policy provided will be decided at Kimberly-Clark’s sole discretion.
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