Supply Chain Product Manager - Orchestration & Automation

Kimberly-Clark; Neenah (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Kimberly-Clark in Neenah, Wisconsin, seeks a Product Manager to own the vision and roadmap for Supply Chain Digital Orchestration and Automation. You will lead cross-functional teams across engineering, logistics, and support to deliver a living roadmap and drive end-to-end outcomes.

The role requires 3+ years in product management or 5+ years in related fields, with experience in SAP, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, and MES, plus a data-driven, collaborative mindset.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Product Management experience, or 5+ years in a related field.
• Experience integrating enterprise systems (SAP, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, MES).
• Experience with Automation systems integration (Dematic, E80 and/or Wapiti).
• Experience with product life cycle management, especially with product vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization.
• Experience managing stakeholders, including senior executives.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, influence, collaboration, relationship-building, and communication skills.
• Desire to crystallize and diagnose problems through cross-functional collaboration and troubleshooting.
• Detail-oriented, process-driven, and highly organized.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Supply Chain Digital Orchestration and Automation domains.
• Provide cross-functional leadership between engineering, logistics, and support.
• Collaborate with Product Owner to develop a living roadmap and align requirements.
• Understand NA Supply Chain objectives and user needs for orchestration domains.
• Document use cases, personas, and acceptance criteria to guide development.
• Manage stakeholder expectations across the product lifecycle and UAT.
• Represent Enterprise Supply Chain needs to teams with overlapping use cases.
• Drive adoption through feedback sessions, training, and adoption roadmaps.

Skills

PM experience

Enterprise integration

Automation systems

Product lifecycle management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Problem solving

Detail oriented

Tools

SAP

Kinaxis

Blue Yonder

MES

Job description

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World. As a person, you’re a problem-solver – a connector – someone who thrives on creating order from complexity and driving continuous improvement. You see the big picture while mastering the details, ensuring that every product, process, and partnership flows with precision and purpose. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity, efficiency, and collaboration, always working to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s success stories. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

About You

In one of our Supply Chain roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. Job responsibilities include:

• Owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the overall Supply Chain Digital Orchestration and Automation digital capabilities and technical domains. Defines what success looks like, drives toward it, and tracks it using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Providing cross-functional leadership, most notably between engineering teams, logistics, and support. A key aspect of this is communicating the product roadmap and keeping the product team and the stakeholders informed of updates.
• Collaborating with the Product Owner to leverage stakeholder insights to develop a living and breathing roadmap for the future while advocating for and driving alignment between stakeholders in the development of requirements, acceptance criteria, and solutions.
• Understanding how NA Supply Chain objectives intersect with the needs, pain points, and priorities of the user base of their Supply Chain Orchestration and Automation domains.
• Understanding what success looks like for different groups in terms of use cases and user experience, as documented with User Personas, Use Cases, and Case Studies.
• Accountability for stakeholder management at each point of the product lifecycle including requests, adoption, requirements gathering, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Representing the needs of Enterprise Supply Chain and Global Product Teams who own tools with overlapping use cases.
• Driving adoption of enhancements through user feedback sessions, training support, and an adoption roadmap.
• Developing and manages defined communication channel(s) and/or stakeholder groups, proactively seeking to identify potential demand, and drives the creation of the business case.
• Anticipating changes in customer/user needs, adapts product (with enhancements), and create product retirement and transitioning plans.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of Product Management experience, or 5+ years of experience in a related field
• Experience integrating enterprise systems (SAP, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, MES, etc.).
• Experience with Automation systems integration (Dematic, E80 and/or Wapiti).
• Experience with product life cycle management, especially with product vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization.
• Experience managing stakeholders, including senior executives.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, influence, collaboration, relationship-building, and communication skills.
• Desire and ability to crystallize and diagnose problems through cross-functional collaboration and troubleshooting.
• Detail-oriented, process-driven, and highly organized.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working for a global, highly matrixed, Consumer Packaged Goods company.
• Experience with API architecture, middleware, or integration platforms.
• Experience working with teams organized around Agile ways of working.
• Experience conducting stakeholder interviews, market analysis, and other forms of research.
• Experiencing identifying goals, metrics, and analytics to measure value at a large scale (e.g., a product, a program).
• Familiarity with uncovering and championing high value use cases for data
• Familiarity with database structure (systems and data).
• Experience solving business problems with technology solutions.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

Total Benefits

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.

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.

To Be Considered

And finally, the fine print….

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, which is why we seek to build a workforce that encompassesthe 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 local policies.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.

Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.