Strategic Planner

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.

The **Strategic Planner** is a member of the South-East Asia Markets planning leadership team and key resource for SP & S&OP leader for Cluster. Strategic planner is responsible for medium
- and long-term supply planning. It involves capacity management of 3-5 mills, generation of Master Prod Schedule(MPS) & Scenario planning for 10-20 assets, leading Supply review as part of Cluster S&OP, owning E2E Inventory results and work process(including norms) of $100 M and manage supply readiness for 10-15 initiatives/year based on the business plan.

In this role, you will:

- Own & lead 3 quarterly cadence for the Cluster
- This role owns the long-term demand and supply balancing and rough-cut capacity planning(RCCP) for **3-5 Mills **producing annualized** 5000 MSU for 10-15 markets **to deliver supply sufficiency for **Cluster business of NSV $ 250-400 M. **This aggregates into a quarterly review with EM President & EMLT.
- Create and own **service level agreements (SLA) for mill market supply**, drive scenario building, and supply prioritization decisions basis aligned SLAs with **SC Dir/Sr Dir, EM planning director and Cluster CS/L, Mill Managers.**
- Provide consolidate demand and supply visibility to **regional & mill finance teams for QF planning.**
- Own and lead 3 monthly cadence for the Cluster
- Consolidate monthly rolling forecasts for 50 network lanes/1000skus to **issue a Monthly Master Production Schedule (MPS)** for **10-20 assets **for mid to long term ( 3 months -18 months horizon) for the tactical & mill planning to schedule prod. & to logistics for RCCP-Warehouse and transportation
- ** Owns and conducts Supply review and builds supply scenarios with Mfg, Logistics, Procurement, MFT **as part of S&OP with **SC Dir/Sr Dir, EM planning director and Cluster CS/L, Mill Managers**
- Represents supply planning team in monthly **multi-functional initiative execution team for supply readiness of the 10-15 initiatives/yr. Manages** Phase-in Phase-outs fand prebuild ownership
- Own SKU productivity with markets for **~300-500 SKUs **working **with CSLs**
- Own E2E Inventory results and work process (including norms) for **$70-150 M inventory**

**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 Strategic Planner - SEA 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:

- Experience of 8-10 years in supply planning, capacity planning, PPDS, initiatives execution and PIPO management, inventory planning
- Hands on experience with planning tools like SAP -APO SNP, BW/BI, advance excel
- Strong analytical skills to evaluate root cause analysis, thoroughness and problem-solving skills; ability to collaborate and influence based on data
- Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills; demonstrated skills interacting at various levels of an organization
- Bachelor’s Degree in a Business, Supply Chain, Science, Engineering or related discipline; Graduate Degree (MBA) preferred

**To Be Considered**

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