Manufacturing Director - Latin America

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.

Company Overview

Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) and its trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. We are headquartered in Dallas, Texas U.S.A. with approximately 45,000 employees worldwide and operations in 34 countries. Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people’s most essential needs, we create products that help individuals experience more of what’s important to them.

Our portfolio of brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Plenitud, Viva, Softex, Sweety and WypAll, hold the No. 1 or No. 2 share position in 80 countries. Sustainability is at the center of our company and by 2030 we aspire to advance the well-being of one billion people through social programs and reduce our environmental footprint by half. We focus on the areas where we can make the biggest difference - climate, forests, water and plastics.

At Kimberly-Clark, treating individuals with respect is the way we do business and the way we lead our industry and our world. We’re building an organization that looks and thinks like our customers around the world and are searching for talented people with different perspectives and varied backgrounds.

Position Purpose:

The Manufacturing Director, LATAM provides strategic and operational leadership for manufacturing operations across Latin America. This role is responsible for driving safe, compliant, and cost‑competitive manufacturing performance while leading transformation initiatives across multiple sites. The position plays a critical role in enabling profitable growth of the LATAM business and is a key member of the regional leadership team.

The Manufacturing Director, LATAM will report to the Vice President, Supply Chain – Enterprise Markets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead manufacturing and operations strategy and execution across LATAM facilities, ensuring safety, quality, regulatory compliance, delivery, and cost competitiveness.

• Serve as a key member of the LATAM ABU leadership team, aligning manufacturing strategies and execution with business priorities and growth plans.

• Provide inspirational leadership to an organization of approximately 2,000 employees, fostering a strong “One Supply Chain” mindset across the region.

• Drive deployment and execution of manufacturing transformation initiatives across all sites, including:

  • Manufacturing Excellence

  • Occupational Health & Safety (OHS)

  • Environmental performance

  • Quality and brand equity

  • Cost, delivery, and productivity (“Fuel to Grow”)

  • People and talent development

• Establish and sustain robust management infrastructure across all tiers of manufacturing operations, including daily management systems, continuous improvement, and innovation.

• Execute the regional talent strategy, ensuring a strong pipeline of capable leaders across Manufacturing and the broader Supply Chain organization.

• Champion continuous improvement and year‑over‑year productivity gains using value‑stream and operational excellence approaches.

• Act as a delegate and strategic partner to senior Supply Chain leadership, supporting alignment and connectivity across LATAM manufacturing sites.

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 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:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, or a related field. Master’s Degree preferred.

• 10+ years of experience in Supply Chain Management, including:

  • At least 5 years in manufacturing leadership roles

  • Experience managing multiple manufacturing sites across two or more countries

• Proven track record of leading large, multi‑site manufacturing organizations.

• Demonstrated success driving transformation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

• Experience leading multi‑source supply organizations that include manufacturing.

• Strong strategic thinking and execution capability; ability to translate insights into actionable plans.

• Experience with capital planning and execution.

• Strong stakeholder management skills across Supply Chain functions and Centers of Excellence.

• Prior experience with union or works council consultation and negotiation.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to inspire and lead diverse teams.

• Ability to operate effectively in complex, fast‑paced, and changing environments.

Preferred

• Experience in personal care manufacturing or engineering environments.

• Regional or global leadership experience within emerging markets.

Location

Peru, Argentina, or Colombia

Ways of Working and Leadership Competencies We Value

• Focus on Consumers. We keep the needs of customers and consumers at the center of our work. Building strong customer relationships and delivering consumer-centric solutions. Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies that delight our consumers.

• Play to Win. We aim high, measure our results, and live our values because winning with integrity matters. Setting aggressive goals and consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances. Pushing past status quo to create new and better ways to solve problems and win.

• Move Fast. We turn decisions into action, remove barriers and seek progress over perfection. Stepping up to champion ideas, address difficult issues and say what needs to be said. Tackling challenges with a sense of urgency, seizing new opportunities and scaling winning solutions.

• Grow our People. We champion inclusion and encourage our people to ideate, innovate and contribute to their growth. Encouraging diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds that enable our winning culture.  Placing a high priority on developing self and others to meet career goals and the organization’s goals.

Total Benefits

Here are a few of the benefits you’d enjoy. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.

• Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options. No waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.

• Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.

• Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.

• Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.