Stores Leader

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll find innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact through better care for a better world.

About the role

The Warren, Ohio plant is where Kimberly-Clark’s purpose comes to life—and our future is being built through major investment in best-in-class manufacturing, new capabilities, and long-term growth. As a Stores Leader, you’ll work within our High-Performance Work System environment, leading in a culture of ownership, teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement. Safety, respect, and people always come first, and your leadership will help deliver essential products relied on by millions every day.

Responsibilities

• Champion a strong safety culture by ensuring safe work practices, conditions, and loss prevention standards are consistently upheld across Stores operations.
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements, internal controls, and corporate policies while maintaining accurate documentation and audit readiness.
• Lead daily Stores operations, including inventory control, SAP transactions, cycle counts, and reconciliation to ensure accuracy and reliability.
• Support plant maintenance and operations by ensuring timely procurement, delivery, and availability of Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) materials.
• Respond to urgent equipment downtime by coordinating rapid solutions, expediting materials, and minimizing operational impact.
• Optimize inventory strategy by balancing safety stock, cost, and uptime while reducing excess and obsolete inventory.
• Manage vendor relationships and resolve procurement or service issues to ensure quality, delivery performance, and cost effectiveness.
• Drive continuous improvement of inventory health using Maintenance Parts Process (MPP), Authority to Stock (ATS) processes, data analysis, and collaboration with Central Stores.
• Oversee repairable and refurbished parts processes, coordinating with vendors and internal teams to maintain availability and tracking in SAP.
• Partner cross-functionally with operations, reliability, engineering, and purchasing while serving as a subject matter expert and training resource for materials management systems and processes.

Requirements

• Are 18 years or older and authorized to work in the United States.
• Have a state and/or US Department of Education accredited high school diploma, GED Grade 12 certificate.
• 3+ years of continuous work experience.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with multitasking ability.
• Works autonomously with minimal supervision and strong analytical and decision-making skills.
• Proficient computer knowledge, mechanical aptitude, and good math skills.
• Able to maintain a work schedule of 8-hour day shifts and flexibility during startup or abnormal operating conditions as business needs require.
• Can pass a pre-employment assessment and a pre-employment drug + background screening.
• Can pass post-offer / pre-hire Physical Abilities Test (PAT).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in logistics, warehousing, parts management, SAP, and Excel.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities.

Benefits

• Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions.
• Access to an on-site fitness center and occupational health nurse.
• 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.
• 401(k) and Profit-Sharing plan.

Pay

Starting hourly wage: $38.00 USD. This position is eligible for overtime pay and available pay increases within your first year. Note that the stated pay rate applies to US locations only.

Schedule

Full time, 8-hour day shifts with flexibility during startup or abnormal operating conditions as business needs require.