Solution Engineer – S4 Strategy and Delivery Lead – Customer Collaboration at Kimberly-Clark Corporation in Roswell, Georgia

Job Description:

Solution Engineer – S4 Strategy and Delivery Lead – Customer Collaboration

Job Description

You perform your job so well that others are inspired to step up their game

Your energy, dedication and focus are apparent to all. Colleagues can’t help but judge their own standards by yours.  Your positive energy contributes to team morale and productivity.  Our organization will greatly appreciate your talent for bringing such motivation and inspiration to work every day. If you would like to be recognized for your standard-setting performance, let's meet!

SUMMARY:

The IT Digital Supply Chain Team is the IT Engine that builds the strategy and delivers compelling and robust capabilities, products, and solutions to Kimberly-Clark’s business and IT by focusing on cost savings, business growth, as well as connecting with partners and customers. As part of this team, the Solution Engineer is responsible for integrating business, information, and technology architecture to create solutions for Customer Collaboration and cross capability areas such as Planning. This role is viewed as an expert in complex analytics and application environments, encompassing both business process understanding and technical expertise. This person is a leader in developing innovative, technical solutions to important, highly complex strategic and operating problems. This role requires someone with a strong knowledge in business and technical functions that are touch points within SAP S4 and across Sales and Supply Chain. The person in this role is a source of Thought Leadership, experience and guidance for Kimberly-Clark’s global program and for other team members.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES: 

• Strategy and IT Delivery for Analytics in the Customer Collaboration area.


• Accountabilities across multiple functional and technical analytical areas with wide range of complexity. Technical architect and leader of projects for the Customer Collaboration capability or across multiple capabilities.


• Translates non-functional and functional requirements into end-to-end analytical solution designs, ensuring solution aligns with business goals and processes, uses and provides enterprise information consistently, integrates effectively with other applications, supports a common application environment and user interaction model.


• Collaborates with other Solution Engineers and Enterprise Architecture to make sure that solutions fit within enterprise context and aims for standardization of solutions across K-C’s application landscape.


• Coordinates medium to complex solution architecture implementations while leading design variances based upon business needs while ensuring artifacts are documented in enterprise architecture repository.


• Coordinates engagements with vendors as they relate to evaluation, design and delivery of business capabilities. Contributes to the evaluation and selection of software product standards.


• Participant in industry representation, policy formation, User Groups, and strategic direction.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree


• 10+ years of continuous experience in software engineering, software development, solution architecture.


• Proven hands-on delivery experience in Retail and Supply Chain Analytics. 


• Functional and Technical delivery expertise in SAP (ECC and S/4 HANA) within Sales/Distribution and Supply Chain.


• Understanding of technical and functional aspects within Data and Analytics, strong in strategy with ability to do hands-on technical work whenever needed.


• Strong leadership skills and exhibit creative thinking to be able to come up with inventive solutions to solve business challenges.


• Understanding of how to coordinate the flow of work between agile teams and more traditional project-based teams. 


• Experience working with blended teams consisting of employees, vendors, and consultants with both onshore and offshore resources.


• Strong Technical leadership of Application Development teams and vendors; Cultivates networking opportunities within the organization.


• Proven knowledge about performance engineering, application and integration architecture using API Microservices, and Information Architecture modelling and design.


• Holistic IT background, including security, infrastructure, application, information management.


• Experience collaborating with Enterprise Architects and infrastructure engineers to identify, design, and implement highly complex, end-to-end solutions.


• 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.

Join a collaborative crew of idea builders and problem-solvers

We foster an environment where all members of our diverse staff are appreciated for their unique thoughts and ideas. If you are energized by putting your head together with other thinkers for exciting results, we will welcome you. We encourage ongoing dialogue in order to consider options that increase productivity, outcomes, and raise morale even higher. We invite you to be a part of our stimulating team where respect and advancement is waiting for all.

Kimberly-Clark makes the essentials for a better life with well-known brands that matter every day – at home, school, work and on the go. Throughout our 148 years, we have challenged conventional wisdom to innovate products that better meet the needs of consumers. We have created new categories with top brands like Kleenex®, and redefined categories with Huggies® and U by Kotex®. While growing our $18+ billion global business, we help build careers through collaborative teams that push boundaries and endless opportunities to work with some of the world’s most recognized brands. Our 43,000 employees are changing the world for the better, too, generously giving back to communities and causes around the globe. 

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.

With an inclusive culture, our employees – and the original thinking they bring to Kimberly-Clark – make us stronger.  EOE disability/vet.

K-C requires that an employee have authorization to work in the country in which the role is based.  In the event an applicant does not have current work authorization, K-C will determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sponsor an individual for work authorization.  However, based on immigration requirements, not all roles are suitable for sponsorship.

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

K-C will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role, including assistance to obtain proper work authorization.  The benefits provided will be per the terms of K-C’s applicable mobility policies.  The benefits/policy provided will decided in K-C’s sole discretion.

Primary Location

USA-GA-Atlanta-Roswell

Additional Locations

USA-TN-Knoxville, USA-TX-Dallas, USA-WI-Neenah

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

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