Digital Supply Chain Partner

**About Us**
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**About You**

You love what you do, especially when your work 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.

**Scope/Categories**:
Key Interfaces: Planning, Procurement and Supply Chain/Warehousing in APAC. Co-create the future of Digital Supply Chain and drive efficiencies with APAC stakeholders and customers, global and functional Business Partners, Capability Directors, Delivery Engine Leadership, external delivery partners and software vendors.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Lead digital product strategy and programs for planning, procurement and SC/warehousing in APAC. Co-create technology roadmap to deliver capabilities that enrich and enable Supply Chain digital experiences.
- Act as an entrepreneur, performing market and competitive analysis to inform product innovation.
- Actively guide and inspire the APAC team around the vision and feature priorities for APAC. Ensure that this vision is integrated into the overall APAC Supply Chain Product vision.
- Work with APAC Supply Chain Product Owner to break down complex problems into actionable steps to drive product strategy, innovation, and development. Understand the global strategic SC vision and releases, starting with pilots and/or mínimal viable products, and then drive scalability across APAC.
- Partner with Product Supply stakeholders to understand needs/requirements to be included in APAC roadmap.
- Works closely with development teams and/or guide Product Owners to implement the product requirements.
- Build the business cases with APAC and IT Leaders to secure funds for APAC Product Supply product team for a specified time.
- Product lifecycle including development of features, deployment of roadmaps, and measurement and management of adoption.
- Establish tradeoffs between internal development and business partnerships, works with stakeholders for investment, product maintenance, product changes, forecasting and financials.
- Create, manage, and prioritize APAC Product Supply backlog to streamline execution of APAC objectives. Manage vendors to ensure software roadmaps and delivery of features are completed based on agreed SLAs and pricing models.
- Ensure that volume of work flowing to team optimizes team performance.
- Maximize the value of the APAC SC Product over its lifecycle by defining and owning capabilities ROI, including budget and/or P&L.
- Provision technology, including vendor research, request for proposals, and partnering with Procurement on vendor selection and contracts.
- Understanding of cyber risks, Kimberly-Clark security posture, processes, and procedures to ensure compliance to Kimberly-Clark IT security and controls framework
- Establish trusted relationships with key APAC SC stakeholders and being a connected, influential player with SC Global Leadership.
- Engage and motivate employees and resources with effective communication to promote a high performing, agile and focused team environment.
- Support metric definition, risk identification, and remediation.
- Champion the business unit capabilities and develop workshops to identify opportunities and develop project plans to implement as well as enhancements to existing capabilities to improve efficiency, product yield, and equipment reliability.
- Act as a liaison with Engineering and APAC product supply capabilities of new projects and/or new processes. This will involve designing and administering projects in accordance with the innovation review process.
- Leads in troubleshooting and resolving equipment, systems, and process problems to prevent the occurrence of product and process issues.
- Consistently demonstrates the One Kimberly-Clark behaviors. Maintains and evolves cultural awareness; acts with global fluency. Adopts a test and learn, fail fast mi