Brian Bleck Email & Phone Number

Irving, TX, US

I have a CIO scope of accountability for K-C's North American customer field sales leadership group and their teams, including IT operations, business capability, digital business transformation and achieving business unit results (Net Sales).- I work directly with sales and marketing to cut through the noise that is stopping those teams from selling more.

Irving, TX, US

• In parallel with K-C International role, joined IT Security leadership team to implement NIST-based program at K-C:As original lead of K-C's Protect K-C & Me program won the distinguished 2017 CSO50 award for the.
• Led and architected K-C's global 'Protect K-C & Me' security awareness/behavior program
• Built sustainable and measured security awareness program within 6 month time frame
• Improved the human 'firewall' through social engineering simulations (email phishing, USB/media, phone, physical) across full geographic scope
• Applied behavioral science approach to achieve compliance to IT Security policies & standards
• Mobile Security Risk Management – Assess risk and make decisions on mobile app solutions

Irving, TX, US

• Built strategic growth portfolios, drove investment choices and managed the IT P&L impact to help make the best trade-off decisions to achieve business growth and operate more profitably.
• Match IT strategies to business objectives across Kimberly-Clark International,
• Build and manage the annual K-C International IT budget and business unit P&L impact
• Establish the Strategic Business Plan with stakeholders among the regional IT and business teams (Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Latin America).

Irving, TX, US

• K-C CFO Award: Delivered visibility to 100% of KC external spend for global and regional procurement teams through robust analytics capability (SAP Global Spend Analytics)
• Led cash generation project to reduce global procurement spend at K-C utilizing SAP’s Master Data Management and Business Intelligence capabilities
• Designed enterprise process for common material creation and maintenance across 4 regional SAP landscapes (LAO, A/P, NA and EMEA) to provide clean master data and enable business’s global spend analysis efforts

Irving, TX, US

• Collaborated with supply chain management organization to deliver industry leading retail on-shelf availability solution for K-C products across all North American Wal-Mart stores
• Drove business growth through a 200% sales lift for targeted products
• Project success resulted in commitment by major retailer to a first-of-a-kind RFID-based retail out-of-stock (OOS) reduction project
• Co-developed intellectual property with a strategic vendor by integrating retailer and manufacturer data to provide new insights to customer demand. New capabilities expected to deliver significant annual revenue.
• Collaborated with business and IT teams to establish priority of multiple projects in light of limited technical and functional resources

Irving, TX, US

• Led SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) work stream and implementation to all North American facilities
• Successful SRM 2.0 & SRM 4.0 implementations
• Integrated the SRM processes with the overall Requisition to Check business process
• Managed project resources including permanent and contract/consulting personnel

Irving, TX, US

• Delivered small enhancement projects and provided support
• Managed project to implement and test procurement system at new plant acquisition
• Achieved savings on price contracts through development of automated system tools adopted by purchasing agents