Senior Procurement Specialist - Marketing & Advertising

Senior Procurement Specialist - Marketing & Advertising

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 (K-C) is looking for an ambitious, self-driven and talented individual to join our North America Marketing Services team.

You will make a difference by developing and supporting the development of category strategies and oversee key supplier relationships for all K-C North America Design Agency, Pre-Press & Plates, Mobile Platforms, Name Acquisition and Sales Brokerage spend.  You will build category expertise and provide guidance to regional teams in the context of stakeholder needs, data quality and service benchmarking/analysis. 

You will lead Supplier Relationship Management by building and facilitating partnerships with strategic suppliers and key executives within K-C.  You will ensure K-C is maximizing value on the spend with suppliers while delivering high levels of data quality, service and security for sensitive internal/external data.  You will establish strong stakeholder relationships by providing market expertise and actively engaging them in procurement processes.  In addition, you will work closely with the global procurement lead, business units and cross-functional team to achieve strategic sourcing objectives for the categories.


* Execute category strategy & implementation plan created by Regional Category Lead


* Manage local supplier relationships within focus area (e.g., sub-category, cluster / country)


* Provide input to regional category strategy based on market dynamics, supplier landscape, business needs within focus area


* Support regional sourcing events, working with Agile Squads


* Support execution of category strategic initiatives


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


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


* Lead execution of global category strategic initiatives in region


* Support in the creation and maintenance of category knowledge and processes to ensure the category strategies are informed, relevant and up to date.


* 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 orientati...