Procurement Transport & Warehousing Leader

Procurement Transport & Warehousing Leader

Job Description

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

It starts with YOU. 

Lead Transport & Warehousing Category negotiations for Brazil, with the goal of achieving significant value creation activities, based on year-over-year savings, working capital and productivity improvements in the total cost of ownership of goods and services procured, while granting quality and vendor service levels.

Align, provide price trend visibility and influence business decisions, working closely to key Kimberly-Clark stakeholders.

Become a strategic partner for business decision for short-, mid- and long-term timeframe.

Jointly develop go to market strategy and bring outside solution to better attend the customers, reassess footprints and challenge distribution models.

In this role, you will:


* Work closely with business and commercial teams to ensure best and efficient ways to reach the customer.


* Develop strategies through the strategic sourcing process, benchmark internally and externally, and develop a dynamic total cost of ownership models.


* Lead face to face negotiations or drive RFx processes for selecting suppliers.

Negotiate Price, Payment Terms, conditions and KPIs.

Apply price adjustment mechanisms.

Responsible for supplier relationship management for value creation.


* Provide spend visibility for demand management and price trend for fuelling business plans.


* Align and influence, with Procurement Manager support, global/regional strategies according to Brazil Stakeholders needs and ensuring not violating any local regulation.


* Understanding of main macroeconomic variables movement.

Correlate different variables for predicting cost fluctuation.


* Ensures that negotiations consider the administrative/transactional work for optimizing and minimizing it.


* Uphold internal and external policies, regulations and laws.


* Build Partnership with strategic suppliers to bring outside innovation and value creation opportunities 


* Identify, Analyse, Diagnose and resolve complex issues.

Recommend solutions and calculate risks.

About Us

Huggies®.

Intimus®.

Poise®.

Plenitud®.

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.

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