Procurement Manager

Procurement Manager

Job Description

Your Job

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In your role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

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 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; you just need to log on!

Led by Purpose.

Driven by You.

About You

You’re driven to 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.

Main responsibilities:

Oversee, develop and execute of strategies through the strategic sourcing process for specific category and develop total cost of ownership models.

Develop and lead the team of Strategic Sourcing Buyers.

Responsible for leading strategic sourcing efforts in specific commodity areas as needed/appropriate.

Set priorities, performance goals and supervises the Sourcing Buyers, guide strategy development for major categories, oversees development of annual strategic sourcing plans that specify how savings goals will be achieved, institutionalizes strategic sourcing across the group.

Understanding of main macroeconomic variable movement.

Correlate different variables for predicting cost fluctuation.

Maintain expertise in portfolio spend categories, remain current with market trends and emerging supplier.

Price Forecasting development and understanding all variable movement.

Lead the process to select and manage vendors, analyzing capabilities and strengths/weakness of suppliers.

Drive & Influence innovation aligned with...