Job Overview
Job Description
Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.
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.
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.
In one of our professional 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:
This role requires strong analytical, communication, and negotiation skills, as well as a deep understanding of supply chain principles and E com / modern trade dynamics.
– Demand Management:
Analyse sales data, market trends, and promotional plans to forecast demand for products within the modern trade channel.
Collaborate effectively with GT sales team and MT and Ecom planners for improving forecast and availability in the region
Monitor SLOB and drive actions to address concerns
– Inventory Management:
Monitor inventory levels at, distribution centres, and warehouses to ensure optimal stock levels and minimize out-of-stock situations.
– Customer Service – Order Fulfilment
Manage the order fulfilment process, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of products to partners. Ensure target levels of OTIF, on-time delivery and tracking.
Timely settlement of damage, expiry, and full & final claims for MT partners
Ensure appointment adherence for MT and Ecom customers.
Drive PDP and MOQ compliance for South & West regions.
Timely and accurate updating of PODs by vendors
– Supply Chain Optimization:
Identify opportunities to improve supply chain efficiency and effectiveness, including transportation, warehousing, and distribution.
– Relationship Management:
Build and maintain strong relationships with key account managers, and other internal stakeholders like depot teams, demand planners, central distribution planner.
– Performance Monitoring and Reporting:
Track key performance indicators (KPIs) related to supply chain performance, such as on-shelf availability, fill rates, and inventory turnover, PDP, MOQ adherence, ICP’s for supplying to different customers and report on these metrics to senior management.
– Problem Solving:
Identify and resolve supply chain issues, such as delays, shortages, or quality problems, in a timely and effective manner.
– Audit of MT partners:
Plan along with KAM for audits at MT partner’s end. Liase with the audit teams for performing those audits and sending reports.
Cost Management
Ensure cost efficiency in entire SC operations for supplying to MT customers
Drive Fuel to Grow programs and develop pipeline of projects
Actively engage with customers to drive direct dispatch from both factories
IT enablement.
Use IT to its advantage for converting manual to automated PO’s. Usage of IT tools for preparing dashboards, reports, etc.
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
– Strong analytical and problem-solving skills:
Ability to analyze data, identify trends, and develop solutions to supply chain challenges.
– Excellent communication and negotiation skills:
Ability to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders and negotiate favorable terms with all stakeholders.
– Deep understanding of supply chain principles:
Knowledge of demand planning, inventory management, order fulfillment, and distribution.
– Experience in the FMCG or retail industry:
Familiarity with the specific challenges and opportunities of the modern trade channel.
– Proficiency in relevant software and tools:
Experience with ERP systems, forecasting software, and other supply chain management tools.
Qualifications (technical and behavioural)
– Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Logistics, or a related field
– Minimum 10 years’ experience in logistics preferably in FMCG
– Strong in MS Office (MS Excel, MS PowerPoint), knowledge of SAP. Skills in Power BI will be added advantage.
– Well-developed written and oral communication skills
Ability to work with minimum supervision and drive the things by proactive co-ordination.
Good in teamwork, attitude for learning and with attention to details
Led by Purpose. Driven by You.
Source: Company Career page