Sr Manager - Electrical Engineering COE - Neenah, WI

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JOB DESCRIPTION
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. 

The Personal Care Senior Manager leads a team which delivers engineering and process solutions around Electrical Technologies. The primary accountabilities include the management of people and processes in the pursuit of managing the innovation, development, and execution of all electrically-focused technologies on converting assets and supporting systems (Drives, Process Controls, Software, Networks, Packaging, Adhesives, Vision, Registration, etc.) and maintaining standard Personal Care Engineering Practices and providing training to Baby/Child Care, Adult/Feminine Care, and corresponding Global teams around electrical technologies. This role will manage relationships with external technical service partners in partnership with Supply Chain Engineering, and the Personal Care business relationships with key suppliers of these technologies, in partnership with the Technical Leaders on the team. 

In this role, you will:

Builds an assertive, proactive, results-oriented team that is passionate about winning through teamwork. Identifies and hires top-tier talent; maximizes team member effectiveness by providing ongoing coaching and feedback; creates opportunities for growth and development.  

Own and monitor processes to ensure excellence in delivering technology development and execution for electrical technologies.

Support the Personal Care Technical Service Provider strategy to ensure Personal Care business needs for value, speed to market, and quality are met.

Drive continuous improvements in areas of responsibility and ensure electrical engineering knowledge is consistently applied across Personal Care

Support the launch and post launch of platform programs, problem tracking and issue resolution around these technologies.

Manage people and financial resources effectively to deliver Personal Care and platform specific business plans.

Implement business enhancing best practices within the Personal Care R&E organization including IMF, LEAN, PMP, portfolio management and resource management.

Ensure all work complies with corporate safety, regulatory, product safety and sustainability requirements.

Protect and defend K-C proprietary technology and products through appropriate use of patents and trade secrets and effective protection of proprietary information. Challenge competitive intellectual property to ensure right to practice for K-C technologies and products

Additional Qualifications/Responsibilities
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 electrical engineering or relevant discipline

5+ years of manufacturing, technical, scientific, or engineering experience.

3+ Strong leadership experience coaching and developing team members for career development and performance improvement.

Experience managing Technical Service Providers & Vendors.

Experience driving decision making at all levels within the organization

Experience leading and facilitating problem solving across teams to achieve desired results.

Preferred (not essential, but desired):

Innovation process development experience.

Experience in LEAN Implementation.

Global manufacturing experience.


The anticipated pay range for this job has a range of $158,000 – $195,000.