Procurement - Senior Specialist

Procurement - Senior Specialist

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. 

In this role, you will:

Kimberly-Clark is looking for an ambitious, self-driven individual to lead our North America Tissue Procurement Strategy as part of the Global External Contract Manufacturing team.

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

Responsibilities:

Category Strategy & Governance


* Provide a sound understanding of NA Tissue market dynamics and benchmarking.


* Support the development of a robust 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.


* 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


* Lead ownership and execution of all commercial terms and supplier negotiations


* Promote best practice development and sharing.


* Ensure compliance with all K-C Code of Conduct and Procurement rules.

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