Senior Manager – Platform Ops, Innovation and Architecture

You were made to do this work: designing new technologies, diving into data, optimizing digital experiences, and constantly developing better, faster ways to get results. You want to be part of?a performance culture dedicated to building technology for a purpose that matters. You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.  It starts with YOU. 

In this role, you will:

• Delivery D&A platforms, GenAI platform enablement, support, and enhancement for regional and global analytical solutions

• Enable proactive IT solutions to drive business growth and profitability.

• Deliver innovative, efficient, and cost-effective solutions to meet enterprise needs and to drive business growth and profitability.

• Insight and understanding on “best practices” and keeping pace with competition and peer companies.

• Thought leadership in visualization and guided analytics.

• Work with businesses and capability teams to establish business process sustainability.

• Extensive collaboration with other D&A Delivery Teams to ensure high performance of the global application portfolio.

• Recommend and drive the prioritization of Information Technology decisions for the global businesses to ensure world class delivery and value for DTS investment.

• Lead and manage a team of Platform Operations, Innovation, and Architecture professionals to ensure the successful delivery of projects and initiatives.

• Develop and implement strategies to ensure the stability, scalability, and security of our platform.

• Drive innovation and architecture design to meet the needs of our business and customers.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and successful delivery of projects.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of projects and initiatives.

• Monitor and report on key performance indicators to ensure the successful delivery of projects and initiatives.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with vendors and partners to ensure the successful delivery of projects and initiatives.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with industry experts to stay up to date on emerging trends and technologies.

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 technical 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:

• 10+ years of experience in Platform Operations, Innovation, and Architecture. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.

• Global Application Delivery – Support and enhance and analytic initiatives in accordance with business and IT priorities and annual budgets.

• Business-IT Strategy - Promote and support the long-range IT systems plan consistent with business objectives. Support and facilitate the alignment of corporate IT, EDM&A strategies to business strategies.

• Relationship Management - Represent the face of IT to the EDMA vendor partners. Identify technology opportunities which provide strategic/tactical advantages in planning, managing, and conducting the business. Engage with key customers and other external business partners to deliver IT solutions in a high quality, globally conscience manner.

• Build Talent – Promote and build global leaders, develop staff with the needed functional and technical skills required to meet K-C’s growing application portfolio and changing technology needs.

• Responsible for ensuring compliance with organizational policies and procedures and overall information management strategy.

• Stakeholder relationship management: Is responsible for defining the strategic approach to understanding the needs of the business and works with delivery engines to meet these needs. Establishes and promotes the overall vision for how IT can support the business. Defines, and gains agreement on, the principles for establishing effective relationships between stakeholders, including responsibility for the relationship between IT functions and external delivery partners.

• Autonomy: Works under broad direction. Work is often self-initiated. Is fully accountable for meeting allocated technical and/or project/supervisory objectives. Establishes milestones and has a significant role in the delegation of responsibilities.

• Influence: Influences organization, customers, suppliers, partners, and peers on the contribution of own specialism. Builds appropriate and effective business relationships. Makes decisions which impact the success of assigned projects i.e. results, deadlines and budget. Has significant influence over the allocation and management of resources appropriate to given assignments.

• Complexity: Performs an extensive range and variety of complex technical and/or professional work activities. Undertakes work which requires the application of fundamental principles in a wide and often unpredictable range of contexts. Understands the relationship between own specialism and wider customer/organizational requirements.

• Business Skills: Advises on the available standards, methods, tools, and applications relevant to own specialism and can make appropriate choices from alternatives. Analyses, designs, plans, executes, and evaluates work to time, cost and quality targets. Assesses and evaluates risk. Communicates effectively, both formally and informally.

• Demonstrates leadership. Facilitates collaboration between stakeholders who have diverse objectives. Understands the relevance of own area of responsibility/specialism to the employing organization. Takes customer requirements into account when making proposals. Takes initiative to keep skills up to date. Mentors colleagues.

• Maintains an awareness of developments in the industry. Analyses requirements and advises on scope and options for continuous operational improvement. Demonstrates creativity and innovation in applying solutions for the benefit of the customer/stakeholder. Takes account of relevant legislati

• Strong leadership and management skills with a proven track record of leading cross-functional teams.

• Strong technical background with experience in architecture design, cloud computing, and DevOps.

• Strong project management skills with experience in Agile methodologies.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think creatively and strategically.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to analyze data and make data-driven decisions.

• Strong vendor and partner management skills with experience in negotiating contracts and managing relationships.

• Demonstrated skills in application delivery, client relationship management, strong sense of urgency in delivering results, business knowledge, intuition and judgment, high cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity, strong communication/collaboration.

• Significant experience working with outsource partners.

• Strong facilitation skills required. Must display vision and resiliency.

• Verbal and written fluency in English is mandatory.

• Ability to work in a virtual team which may work across distance (remote), cultures and time zones, in a matrix with multiple reporting lines, and may extend outside the K-C organization including suppliers, partners and customers.

To Be Considered
Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

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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.  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, 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 pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.

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