Operations Research Analysts And Specialists COLOMBIANA KIMBERLY COLPAPEL 18 sep

Kimberly-Clark Corporation,
Latin American Operations, invites applications for Operations Research
Analysts and Specialists. The selected applicant will be member of the
Strategic Operations Research Team (SORT). The candidate should have strong
analytical skills, and leadership qualities. A Masters or Ph.D. degree in
Operations Research or related field is desired.

The SORT team is an internal consulting group that supports the
operation in Latin America, especially in Supply Chain. The team also serves as
a liaison between Kimberly-Clark and top universities to conduct research
projects.  In the past, SORT members have worked in projects in the field
of Facilities Design, Facilities Location, Production Planning, Transportation
and Marketing Engineering. Kimberly-Clark is convinced that Analytics is indeed
a competing tool, and the SORT team is currently receiving a lot of attention
and support from top Management in the Latin American Region.

Desired skills for this job include knowledge of an optimization
modeling language like OPL, Xpress or Ampl; a simulation tool like Arena or
Promodel; a statistics package like R or SAS; at least some basic database
knowledge (SQL) and a general-purpose programming language like Java or Visual
Basic.  Command of the English language is required, as well as either Spanish
or Portuguese.

These positions will be available anywhere in Latin America or the
Caribbean, including Puerto Rico (except Mexico). Latin American candidates
graduated from top American universities who are willing to return to their
native countries are particularly encouraged to apply.

The specific position and compensation will depend on the experience and
formation of the candidate, and will be very competitive for the specific
country where the candidate is hired.  When creating your résumé in
bumeran.com make sure you include your OR software skills as “Otros
Conocimientos” 

We will be conducting interviews during Informs Annual Meeting October
12th-15th in Washington DC.  People attending such conference should make
a note in their résumé to schedule an interview, and specify if and when they
are presenting a paper at the conference.