EMEA Professional Services Procurement Manager

EMEA Professional Services Procurement Manager

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Andrex®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: as a person, you’re a problem-solver – a connector – someone who thrives on creating order from complexity and driving continuous improvement.

You see the big picture while mastering the details, ensuring that every product, process, and partnership flows with precision and purpose.

You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity, efficiency, and collaboration, always working to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s success stories.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

About You

You will be responsible for the timely and cost-effective category management and strategic sourcing of different Professional Services categories in accordance with corporate policies and procedures.

In one of our Supply Chain roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

This role will be responsible for but not limited to: 


* Ensure that the company requirements for the category are fulfilled with the optimum quality, service, and total cost of ownership.

The strategy needs to align with the needs of our internal business partners, the opportunities presented by the market, and exceed    K-C’s short and long-term requirements.


* Manage communications between K-C suppliers and our internal business partners to ensure business needs are met or exceeded on an ongoing basis.


* Lead the sourcing and vendor selection process, build strategic relationships with suppliers and demonstrate leadership in regular supplier negotiations


* Maintain close, co-operative relationships with key business partners, enabling development of relevant, forward focused category strategies


* Operate with an E2E Supply Chain / Business mindset, and in partnership with BU, to ensure service continuity, continuous improvement and maximized value delivery to enhance K-C brand equity and ultimately improve K-C’s level of profitability.


* Maintain co-operative relationships across procurement teams and leverage these relationships to drive value for the EMEA business


* Leverage best practices across segments and regions to drive maximum value for the EMEA team


* Ensure that internal control requirements are met in an efficient and effective manner.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:


* Bachelor’s degree and/or significant Procurement experience


* Excellent interpersonal skills


* Excellent communication and presentation skills


* Excellent quant...