Director, IT Quality & EHS

Director, IT Quality & EHS Job Description Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.  This role leads the modernization and simplification of the Quality and EHS technology landscape, delivering reliable, scalable and validated solutions that enable operational quality, regulatory compliance, worker health and safety, environmental compliance, and GxP/CSV compliance. The Director partners closely with Quality, QRC, EHS, Manufacturing, R&D, Regulatory and enterprise technology leaders to establish common global platforms, improve data quality and integration, reduce technology complexity, and strengthen compliance and inspection readiness. You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: designing new technologies, diving into data, optimizing digital experiences, and constantly developing better, faster ways to get results. You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to building technology for a purpose that matters. Here, you’ll work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development while you help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.  It starts with YOU.  Job responsibilities include: Digital Strategy & Technology Leadership ·        Define and own the global technology strategy and multi-year roadmap for enterprise Quality, EHS and Safety capabilities. ·        Establish strategic platform direction across electronic Quality Management Systems, manufacturing quality, laboratory quality systems, environmental health and safety, occupational health, and supporting data and analytics. ·        Drive simplification and consolidation of fragmented legacy technologies onto scalable enterprise platforms while protecting regulatory compliance and business continuity. ·        Establish investment priorities and ensure technology investments deliver measurable business, compliance and operational value. Quality Technology ·        Provide strategic leadership for enterprise quality platforms supporting document control, nonconformance, CAPA, complaints, investigations, audits, supplier quality and quality workflows. ·        Lead the evolution of the enterprise eQMS landscape, including EtQ NXG and the transition from legacy EtQ, Veeva and other quality platforms. ·        Ensure Quality solutions maintain validated state, data integrity, access controls, testing evidence, auditability and appropriate change governance. ·        Partner with Quality and QRC process owners to standardize processes, controls and decision rights. Manufacturing & Laboratory Quality ·        Provide technology leadership across manufacturing-quality processes, including SAP Quality Management, batch management, inspections, laboratory testing, quality events and certificates of analysis. ·        Ensure effective integration across SAP S/4HANA, eQMS, LIMS, manufacturing platforms and enterprise data solutions. ·        Enable reliable management of quality notifications, inspection results, batch status, holds and usage decisions supporting end-to-end material traceability. ·        Partner with Manufacturing and plant Quality organizations to strengthen operational reliability and quality execution.   Environment, Health & Safety ·        Establish the enterprise EHS technology strategy and lead platform selection, rationalization and implementation toward an integrated global EHS landscape. ·        Enable capabilities supporting incidents and near misses, investigations, risk assessments, corrective actions, audits, permits, emergency readiness, occupational health and industrial hygiene. ·        Ensure appropriate governance of health and safety data, including privacy, cybersecurity, records management and regulatory controls. ·        Partner with EHS and site leadership to improve worker participation, hazard reporting, risk management, regulatory compliance and operational visibility.   GxP, Validation & IT Quality Assurance ·        From an IT perspective, Lead GxP/CSV and IT Quality Assurance processes across regulated technology. ·        Establish validation strategy, GxP impact assessment, validation planning, traceability and inspection-readiness expectations. ·        Ensure regulated technology remains validated and appropriately controlled throughout its lifecycle. ·        Partner with Quality, Regulatory, Cybersecurity and Internal Audit to maintain compliance and audit readiness.   Enterprise Integration, Data & AI ·        Ensure Quality and EHS platforms integrate effectively with SAP/ERP, manufacturing, PLM/R&D, laboratory, HR, learning and analytics capabilities. ·        Develop analytics and AI capabilities that improve quality insights, risk identification, decision-making and process automation. ·        Evaluate emerging technology, including agentic AI and intelligent automation, where it can safely strengthen Quality and EHS outcomes.   People, Partners & Financial Leadership ·        Lead a globally distributed organization of product, platform and delivery professionals. ·        Develop talent and establish clear accountability across the organization. ·        Manage strategic technology vendors and partners, holding providers accountable for service, delivery, roadmap and value. ·        Own portfolio investment planning, budget management and prioritization. ·        Establish performance measures addressing platform reliability, compliance, adoption, service quality and business outcomes. About Us Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you. At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark. Led by Purpose. Driven by You. 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. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications: ·        Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, Quality, Supply Chain, Business or related discipline; advanced degree preferred. ·        Significant technology leadership experience within a complex global organization, preferably in a regulated environment. ·        Demonstrated experience leading enterprise Quality, QMS/eQMS, EHS or regulated technology platforms. ·        Strong understanding of operational Quality, EHS and computer system validation requirements. ·        Experience modernizing validated enterprise platforms while maintaining compliance and operational continuity. ·        Experience with technologies such as EtQ/EtQ NXG, SAP QM, SAP S/4HANA, LIMS, Veeva, TrackWise, Cority, Intelex, Enablon or comparable platforms, consistent with the technology estate represented in your role-card work. ·        Strong knowledge of GxP