NA Procurement Sr. Specialist, MRO & Machine Clothing

NA Procurement Sr.

Specialist, MRO & Machine Clothing

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. 

Kimberly-Clark is looking for an ambitious, self-driven and talented individual to join our NA Procurement team.

You will make a difference by managing strategic sourcing activities within the Indirect space.

You will develop category strategies and lead local execution activities.

You will support North America businesses to achieve business financial goals, including working capital and cost savings.

This role has responsibilities for K-C’s purchases of electrical components and paper machine clothing on the MRO team.

You will build category expertise and provide guidance to regional teams in the context of stakeholder needs, data quality, and benchmarking/analysis.

You will lead Supplier Relationship Management by building and facilitating partnerships with strategic suppliers and key stakeholders.

In addition, you will establish strong relationships by providing indirect goods and services expertise and actively engaging stakeholders in procurement processes.

 In this role you will: 


* Manage the Electrical and Paper Machine Clothing categories on the MRO team.


* Deliver regional procurement targets for categories in scope.


* Coordinate with regional business stakeholders on category needs and strategy (e.g., collect business requirements)


* Execute the category’s strategic initiatives.


* Foster cross-regional relationship with your procurement counterparts to maximize value, ensure strategic alignment, and leverage global scale.


* Create and maintain category management knowledge and processes to ensure the category strategies are informed, relevant and up to date.


* Manage region-specific supplier relationships, escalate, and resolve region-specific supplier continuity issues, etc.


* Monitor supplier performance indicators and initiate supplier reviews as required or in accordance with agreed programs to drive improvement and reduce risk across the regional enterprise. 


* Build trust and credibility with suppliers by demonstrating integrity, commitment, and results orientation to drive and deliver results.


* Maintain an effective business relationship with all suppliers and stakeholders based on clear, concise group and personal communication.


* Lead bidding process, negotiating pricing/terms and conditions, and final contract award and implementation.


* Lead regional sourcing events, collaborating with Agile Squads


* Ident...