NA Business Integration & Operations Excellence Leader

Kimberly-Clark•Neenah, WI

4d•$221,300 - $286,100•Onsite

About The Position

This role is for a North America Business Integration & Operations Excellence Leader, focused on transformation, operations excellence, and technology. The leader will be responsible for the integration and transformation of North America KC + Kenvue systems, operations, and processes. This senior leadership position drives operations and execution excellence for the combined North America businesses, ensuring readiness for integration program execution, cross-functional decision-making, and implementing best practices for process harmonization and transformation across Business Units. The role acts as a key liaison between business stakeholders, functional workstreams, the Integration Management Office (IMO), and technology delivery teams, and will manage a team of 2-3 direct reports. Travel may be approximately 15% of work time.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Information Technology, Supply Chain, Finance, or related field.
15+ years of progressive leadership experience.
7+ years leading large-scale transformation or integration programs.
Direct commercial experience with understanding of business drivers, functional priorities, and trade-offs.
Experience managing cross-functional programs involving multiple stakeholders.
ERP transformation experience (SAP S/4HANA preferred).
Experience in mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, or enterprise integrations.
Experience operating within highly matrixed organizations.
Authorization to work in the country where the role is based.

Nice To Haves

MBA preferred.
SAP S/4HANA experience.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute the North America business integration roadmap.
Translate strategic integration objectives into business execution plans.
Drive achievement of key integration outcomes including: One Customer, One Order, One Shipment, One Invoice.
Ensure alignment between business priorities and technology delivery plans.
Manage dependencies across business functions and integration initiatives.
Lead all business readiness activities across impacted functions.
Ensure business users are prepared for process, organizational, data, and technology changes.
Partner with the Change Management Lead to develop communication, training, and adoption plans.
Monitor readiness metrics and resolve gaps before major deployment milestones.
Drive sustained adoption following go-live.
Coordinate work across Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, R&D, Risk Management, Global Business Services, Master Data, IT, Legal, and Tax.
Facilitate cross-functional decision making.
Resolve conflicts, priorities, and resource constraints.
Ensure business resources and SMEs are engaged throughout design, testing, deployment, and stabilization activities.
Lead efforts to standardize business processes across legacy K-C and Kenvue organizations.
Evaluate process gaps and define future-state operating models.
Ensure harmonized policies, controls, governance models, and operational procedures.
Drive adoption of enterprise standards and best practices.
Lead Governance and continuous improvement efforts for critical North America processes, including IBP.
Evaluate evolving stakeholder needs in critical processes and lead intervention efforts with required organizations (e.g., IT, Planning, Analytics).
Flag and escalate execution risks based on process adherence across teams.
Establish governance routines to drive transparency and timely decision making.
Lead executive reviews, steering committee discussions, and escalation processes.
Manage business risks, decisions, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
Ensure accountable ownership for all integration deliverables.
Support identification, tracking, and realization of integration benefits.
Monitor business synergy targets and value creation opportunities.
Identify process improvements that accelerate integration outcomes.
Provide leadership with status updates and realization reporting.
Ensure business participation in testing activities.
Oversee user acceptance testing readiness and execution.
Coordinate business cutover planning and deployment activities.
Support hypercare planning and issue escalation management.
Maintain business continuity during major transition events.
Partner with Data Leads to ensure master data harmonization and readiness.
Support customer, vendor, product, finance, and operational data integration activities.
Ensure organizational roles, processes, and responsibilities are defined for the future-state operating model.