Global IT Category Manager - Enterprise & Corporate Functions

Global IT Category Manager - Enterprise & Corporate Functions

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:

This is an exciting opportunity to manage & influence KC’s global Telecom & Network strategy by establishing best-in-class agreements.

The position requires a savvy business professional with deep software knowledge, globally scalable ITPS expertise and top-notch supplier management, negotiation, sourcing and product owner experience.


* Accountable for delivering progressive business framework agreements for use in software and ITPS within KC; range of suppliers such as Microsoft, Salesforce.com and emerging SaaS providers.


* Develop short- and long-term strategies for KC to embrace SaaS while also leveraging existing KC software investments.


* Work with internal KC stakeholders on cross company acquisition, service and supplier initiatives including RFI/RFP’s and single source negotiations/renegotiations.


* Collaborate with IT Leaders/Product Owners to set realistic and challenging operational goals-objectives.


* Drive integration of software/ITPS ont...