Manufacturing Digitalization Manager

Who We Are

Essity is a global leader in health and hygiene headquartered in Stockholm Sweden with a North American headquarters located in Philadelphia PA. We are a multi-billion-dollar company with a purpose to break barriers to well-being for the benefit of consumers patients care givers and customers across the globe. We do this through innovations in our Professional Hygiene Personal Care and Health & Medical business units that provide hygiene and health solutions to over a billion people every day worldwide.

Working at Essity is more than a career it is where you will play your part in a better future to improve well-being for people and have opportunities to drive positive change for society and the environment. As an employee at Essity you will belong to a team where you feel valued are safe supported to grow and challenged to generate business results in a friendly and open atmosphere.

About the Role

We are looking for a Manufacturing Digitalization Manager for the US Region to lead and accelerate the digital manufacturing agenda across our US factories. This position could be located in Neenah WI Harrodsburg KY or Cherokee AL.

This role will translate global manufacturing digitalization strategy into a practical regional roadmap drive the adoption of standard digital tools strengthen local ownership and ensure that digital initiatives deliver measurable value for operations.

The successful candidate will act as a key bridge between US manufacturing sites regional leadership global Manufacturing Digitalization IT/OT Manufacturing Excellence / TPM Maintenance Production Quality RESH and Supply Chain.

What You Will Do

• Translate the digital manufacturing vision strategy and roadmap of the Global Supply Chain Enablement into a practical execution plan for the US region. Contribute to the creation of global standards.
• Experience setting up digitalization governance models
• Lead the US regional digitalization roadmap creation aligned with global standards operational priorities and business value.
• Drive adoption of standard digital manufacturing tools across factories ensuring they are embedded into daily routines and deliver measurable impact.
• Build and coordinate a network of site digitalization representatives or key users to support local ownership training adoption data quality and follow-up.
• Work closely with plant managers production leaders maintenance teams engineers operators and technicians to understand operational needs and ensure digital solutions are practical usable and valuable on the shopfloor.
• Support change management by engaging frontline teams early listening to their feedback and ensuring digital tools help simplify work improve visibility reduce manual effort and support better daily execution whenever possible.
• Lead or coordinate deployments of core digital manufacturing platforms such as MES historians dashboards IIoT solutions digital maintenance tools skills management tools and other shopfloor digital tools
• Promote consistent data practices KPI alignment with global standards data quality and analytics usage across US factories.
• Partner with IT OT and Information Security to ensure digital manufacturing solutions follow cybersecurity architecture and governance standards.
• Identify and prioritize digital use cases that improve production efficiency maintenance reliability sustainability quality safety standard work and decision-making.
• As the regional digital maturity evolves explore and support the deployment of more advanced technologies such as AI machine learning robotics automation and intelligent decision-support solutions where they create clear operational value.

Who You Are

• Bachelors degree in Mechatronics Automation Industrial Engineering Systems Engineering Computer Science or related technical field.
• 7 years of experience in manufacturing operations engineering maintenance automation or industrial digitalization with strong manufacturing know-how.
• 3 years of experience leading digital manufacturing smart factory automation MES OT or data-driven improvement initiatives.
• Strong manufacturing background preferably in large FMCG / Consumer Goods hygiene paper food & beverage pharmaceutical or other high-volume manufacturing environments.
• Proven experience leading digital manufacturing transformation smart factory automation MES OT or manufacturing data initiatives across multiple sites.
• Experience working in a global or regional matrix organization translating global standards into practical site-level execution.
• Proven project/program management experience including delivery of digitalization automation data or manufacturing system projects from planning through deployment adoption and value realization.
• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of standard tools and processes across factories with different levels of digital maturity.
• Good understanding of manufacturing systems and technologies such as MES historians SCADA PLC/DCS integration IIoT dashboards SAP PM digital maintenance analytics or shopfloor execution tools.
• Strong leadership capabilities including change management coaching communication feedback stakeholder engagement critical thinking and analytical problem-solving.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and build alignment across operations IT/OT maintenance engineering quality RESH manufacturing excellence and supply chain.
• Strong business orientation connecting digital initiatives to measurable improvements in efficiency reliability safety quality sustainability standard work and decision-making.
• Practical hands-on mindset with the ability to balance global standardization local site needs cybersecurity requirements and operational realities.
• Experience or exposure to AI machine learning advanced analytics robotics and automation projects is a plus especially for future stages of the regional digital manufacturing roadmap.

What We Can Offer You

At Essity we believe every career is as unique as the individual and empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.

Compensation and Benefits:

Expected Compensation:

Competitive annual salary annual incentive bonus benefits

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors such as knowledge skills and experience.

Along with competitive pay you will be eligible for the following benefits:

• United Healthcare PPO / EyeMed Vision Insurance / Delta Dental Insurance
• Wellness program provided through Rally
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match and annual employer base contribution
• Company paid Basic Life AD&D short-term and long-term disability insurance
• PTO offering with Paid Holidays
• Scholarship program for children of Essity employees.

Additional Information

The Company is committed to equalemployment opportunity and providingreasonable accommodations to qualifiedcandidates and employees pursuant toapplicable law. We value and encouragediversity and solicit applications from allqualified applicants without regard to racecolor gender sex age religion creednational origin ancestry citizenship maritalstatus sexual orientation physical or mentaldisability medical condition military andveteran status gender identity or expressiongenetic information or any othercharacteristic protected by federal state orlocal law.

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Together we are improving lives every day

Working at Essity is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world a healthier more hygienic and safer place. With impactful innovations coupled with sustainable solutions we strive to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for well-being.