Marketing Strategic Buyer

Marketing Strategic Buyer

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Cottonelle®, Kotex®, Poise® and Depend®.

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

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 is part of Kimberly-Clark’s investment in creating new jobs and expanding its capabilities to produce premium that are essential to millions of lives around the world, and right here in São Paulo.

It starts with YOU.

•        Develop and execute Strategic Sourcing strategies for the Marketing portfolio, with a strong focus on brand execution, consumer promotions, in-store activations, and related services, including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models.

•        Lead supplier selection processes (RFI / RFP / RFQ) and commercial negotiations, ensuring competitive, efficient, and scalable commercial models aligned with the dynamics of the promotional marketing industry.

•        Manage relationships with key, driving continuous value creation, innovation, operational excellence, and contract compliance.

•        Identify, lead, and implement Savings and Working Capital initiatives, with a focus on optimizing execution costs, improving operational efficiency, and increasing supplier productivity.

•        Act as a strategic procurement partner to Marketing and Trade teams, understanding campaign needs, promotional strategies, incentives, and consumer engagement plans in the Brazilian market.

•        Provide visibility on spend, cost structures, and market benchmarks (production, execution, content, fees), supporting budgeting, planning, and decision-making processes.

•        Influence stakeholders to improve promotional spend efficiency, driving scope standardization, supplier productivity, and adoption of best-in-class practices.

•        Align global procurement strategies with local business needs in Brazil, ensuring flexibility to support dynamic commercial models while maintaining compliance.

•        Assess and mitigate risks associated with campaign execution, influencer engagement, activa...