Customer Supply Chain Lead, 6 month contract

Customer Supply Chain Lead, 6 month contract

Job Description

It starts with you. Right here at KC Australia

You might have heard of us. You might not. But you definitely know our trusted brands, like Huggies, Kleenex and Viva. In fact, we’ll wager you’ve probably used our products today!

Kimberly-Clark is a global personal care company. Spanning over 300 locations, our notable brands are an essential part of life for one-quarter of the world’s population.

We’re proud of our size, scale and impact. But when you join us, you’ll find there’s much more to who we are. Because a role with us is about the care you take, the connections you make and the opportunity to build a better world.

Bring your big ambition and make a visible, meaningful difference, right here, with K-C Australia.

Your Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Customer Supply Chain Lead to join our Sales division at our Sydney head office on a 6-month parental cover contract. You will lead a team of 6 Vendor Replenishment Planners, collaborating with Sales, Supply Chain, and key customers to drive KCA’s business growth.

Your responsibilities include partnering with key customers, enhancing team capability, and ensuring stock availability, inventory, and promotional activities meet customer expectations. Additionally, you will communicate customer needs to the broader Supply Chain team to facilitate inventory planning and deployment.

Further Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Lead key Customer Collaboration meetings & Engagements to provide supply chain updates and risks

• Actively work with the Operations & Sales teams to align processes to support the daily, weekly and longer term operations

• Execution of key sales activities with the customer to deliver against agreed commercial initiatives

• Analyse and understand our business forecast / demand plan and supply position and proactively call out and manage risks

• Address issues, drive root-cause analysis initiatives and deliver on agreed upon commitments

• Provide updates to key stakeholders across the business including to the Executive Leadership Team

• Deliver and execute strategies for long term & sustainable strategies with our customers

About You:

• You hold solid experience across a similar capacity role, ideally in FMCG Supply Chain, Planning or Sales Function with experience leading teams. You hold strong analytical skills including data analysis and evaluation and can formulate and implement solutions

• You have demonstrated experience in leading, coaching and developing a team – you are able to manage multiple stakeholders cross functionally, and are able to articulate and identify business priorities, drivers, risks and opportunities

• You are customer focused; as we put the customer at the heart in everything that we, you will need to have sound customer liaison skills, coupled with influencing and negotiation skills

• You are a team player, and you bring forward your great communication as well as stakeholder management skills and apply your commercial and systematic acumen towards achieving the results. Together with your skills and experience, you hold Tertiary qualifications in Business Management or similar discipline

Why Kimberly-Clark Australia?

At Kimberly-Clark, we’re about delivering incredible results, making things happen, and working together. And when we get that right, we win.

There's a reason why we've made the Forbes World's Best Employers list in 2021, 2022 and 2023. Here, our culture of care and inclusion really matters, and so does high performance. We continue to push ourselves to improve. Because we’re proud of how far we’ve come. And we’re excited about where we’re headed.  

Here’s what you’ll love about a career with us:

• Drive local impact on a global scale: A career with Kimberly-Clark is about delivering Better Care for a Better World. We do this through local care and connection. Join us and you’ll find over 800 dedicated team members helping to deliver our brands to over 2.1 billion people in 175 countries. And counting. Now THAT is impact at scale

• Win in a culture of inclusion and care: We’re all different and so is every K-C ANZ team. But you’ll soon find the common ground that keeps our high-performing teams connected. You’ll see that here, it’s not politics and egos that propel you forward; it’s integrity and trust

• Be bold and own your incredible career opportunity: You don’t have to move abroad to build a global career, but here, you have the choice if you want to! At K-C ANZ, you’ll find opportunity for the taking. You won’t get lost in the noise and you’ll thrive and grow professionally and personally

You’ll also enjoy a range of other benefits including:

• Find a better work/life balance with hybrid and flexible working options, tailored to suit your lifestyle plus Flex Fridays

• Take advantage of 2 recharge days and 1 volunteer day each year

• Enjoy discounts across the range of Kimberly-Clark products

• Benefit from a variety of discounted products and services including health insurance, loan rates and novated leasing

• Purchase up to 2 weeks extra annual leave

• Look after your social, physical and mental wellbeing with our free wellness and mental health resources and social events

• Grow your skills and knowledge with our tailored leadership and development programs, mentoring opportunities plus hundreds of online training courses

To Be Considered:

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and will be in contact with additional information accordingly.

In the meantime, feel free to browse our website for additional information on our company, brands and culture - Kimberly-Clark Corporation. 

It all starts with you. Are you ready?

Apply today and discover what a fulfilling and balanced career looks like.

At Kimberly-Clark, we’re committed to providing opportunities to the best candidates without regard for race, colour, religion or gender identity. We’re proud to be recognised in Australia as an Employer of Choice by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and to be Rainbow Tick accredited in New Zealand.

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.  We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the 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, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability 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.

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

Primary LocationNorth Sydney Office

Additional Locations

Worker TypeEmployee

Worker Sub-TypeRegular

Time TypeFull time