Global Category Specialist, Moist Wipes

Global Category Specialist, Moist Wipes

Job Description

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

Neither are we.

Because we are 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 will bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you will 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 individual to lead our Global Moist Wipes Procurement Strategy as part of the External Contract Manufacturing team.

As a Global Category Specialist, you will make a difference by creating a connected community across our Moist Wipes Procurement and ECM operations teams, deploying the global category strategy, and building a resilient, cost-effective supply chain through data-focused analytics, stakeholder management, and supplier relationships.

In this role you will: 

Category Strategy & Governance


* Help place K-C at the forefront of Moist Wipes External Contract Manufacturing through collaboration across multiple supply chain functions.


* Provide a sound understanding of the Moist Wipes/business market dynamics and benchmarking.


* Lead the development of a global procurement strategy and ensure seamless alignment with local, regional and global requirements.


* Develop recommendations through fact-based analysis in support of a resilient, cost-effective supply base aligned with business and product requirements


* Drive efficiency by reducing complexity and promoting standardization wherever possible.


* Collaborate with cross functional product owners across Procurement, Planning, Logistics, Transportation, Manufacturing, Quality and Safety teams to achieve challenging goals


* Develop strategic supplier partnerships that deliver measurable business opportunities and continuous innovation.


* Govern and enforce the category strategy and K-C processes, while leading with a continuous improvement mindset for routine category strategy updates.

Engagement & Change Management


* Establish trust and create an environment of accountability with stakeholders impacted by ECM goals and objectives.


* Routinely influence at all levels of leadership through routine, succinct communication


* Lead peer and cross-functional teams across multiple levels of the organization in the creation and execution of Moist Wipes strategies and initiatives.


* Lead market benchmarking and supplier scans to inform initiative prioritization, supplier selection, and negotiation strategy

Commercial Leadership & Risk Management


* Drive out single source suppliers where applicable and lead informed RFx events to achieve a balanced scorecard for the category


* Partner with other ECM Procurement team members in the ownership and exec...