Supply Chain Product Manager - Orchestration & Automation

Kimberly-Clark is a consumer products company focused on delivering better care for people around the world. The Supply Chain Product Manager will own the vision, strategy, roadmap, and adoption of digital orchestration and automation capabilities, while leading cross-functional collaboration across engineering, logistics, support, and enterprise supply chain stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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
• 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