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Global Category Manager – Transportation & Warehousing
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 drive our Global Transportation and Warehousing Procurement Strategy.
As a Global Category Senior Specialist , you will make a difference by creating a connected community across our Logistics Procurement teams and Logistics operations, deploying the Global Overarching Category strategy of Warehouse and Transportation, sharing best practices and utilizing analytics for innovative solutions.
You will optimize transportation and warehousing services by leveraging total volume, spend, and supplier relationships across segments, ensuring collaboration, innovation, service improvement, and value creation.
You will manage key stakeholder relationships and communicate strategies to global and regional procurement teams. With a Global spend of around $1.6B annually, you will be supporting one of the largest procurement categories at Kimberly-Clark.
Key Responsibilities
Overall:
* Serve as a change agent within the Logistics Procurement community, with a strong ownership mentality and willingness to challenge the status quo
* Reports into Global Logistics Procurement Category Director
* Builds a strong procurement and logistics operations network with the Logistics Procurement and Logistics Operations teams in the four business segments – NAM, International Personal Care, International Family Care & Professional and Enterprise Markets.
Strategic category Management and Execution
* Procurement interface with the Transportation and Warehousing stakeholders within each Business Segment and into Global Supply Chain Logistics.
* Develop global category strategy and execution plan; assess supplier landscape and category trends by sourcing and leveraging data & analytics in the Transportation and Warehousing Categories.
* Collaborate with Segment Transportation and Warehousing Operations leaders on joint strategies to identify and prioritize procurement and operational initiatives.
* Identify and manage execution of strategic category initiatives (e.g., stakeholder engagement, supplier-driven innovation) by working closely with business segment procurement and supply chain teams.
* Manage cross-regional engagement with business stakeholders on Transportation and Logistics
Strategic Negotiations and Supplier relationship management
* Support strategic sourcing events &...
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Type: Permanent Location: Roswell, US-GA
Salary / Rate: Not Specified
Posted: 2025-12-05 07:33:34
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Your Job
We are seeking a Category Buyer - Packaging & Unitizing for our Strategic Sourcing & Procurement organization within Georgia-Pacific.
As a part of our Strategic Sourcing and Procurement organization, the Category Buyer reports to the Sourcing Execution Leader.
You will be responsible for procurement of packaging & unitizing materials across Georgia Pacific ensuring adherence to category strategy.
You must be self-directed, work with a high sense of urgency, and possess the ability to solve problems and collaborate with other disciplines to meet the needs of operations.
You will be asked to continuously improve the process and drive efficiencies across the enterprise.
This role is based at either GP Center in downtown Atlanta, GA or an approved Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products facility.
This role will require up to 10% travel.
Our Team
Georgia-Pacific's Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization is responsible for the strategic sourcing and procurement of critical materials and services supporting over 140 facilities nationwide.
Our team drives value through category management, supplier partnerships, and innovative process improvements.
Join us during an exciting transformation as we build new capabilities, improve efficiencies, and capture significant savings.
What You Will Do
* Support the strategic vision for sourcing and purchasing across Georgia-Pacific.
* Collaborate with strategic sourcing, operations and other supporting capabilities to understand and support their priorities.
Execute the strategy associated with Packaging & Unitizing to drive value to the bottom line.
* Manage the ordering process to ensure accurate purchase orders, proactively engage with suppliers to ensure on time delivery, and expedite when necessary.
* Ensure supply to facilities while continuously improving the process to a standardized approach.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams in Packaging & Unitizing space.
* Identify opportunities to transform procurement job functions through utilization of tools and technologies to become best in class.
* Implement processes to improve purchasing efficiencies and automation.
* Optimize working capital and manage on-hand inventory levels effectively.
* Engage with supply base and suppliers to foster collaboration and partnership.
* Connect with KBX and transportation partners to drive process efficiencies.
* Ensure compliance with all safety, purchasing, fiduciary, inventory and environmental policies and procedures.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
* Bachelor's Degree and 3+ years' experience in procurement, purchasing or manufacturing operations, OR high school diploma and 5+ years' experience in procurement, purchasing or manufacturing operations.
* Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, with expertise in pivot tables, lookup functions, data visualization tools, and PowerPoint.
* Experience building a...
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Type: Permanent Location: Atlanta, US-GA
Salary / Rate: Not Specified
Posted: 2025-12-04 07:45:58
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Position Location Details – Upon agreement between you and your Supervisor, you are entitled to a flexible arrangement where you will be able to split your time between working from the office and working remotely.
PURPOSE AND SCOPE:
Responsible for executing strategies to support GMQS (Global Manufacturing Quality and Supply) North America Manufacturing Strategic Procurement organization objectives.
Responsible for source development, supply strategy, negotiations, contracts, and supplier management for assigned materials and services.
Coordinates with North America Plant Procurement and regional GMQS Strategic Procurement organizations to ensure alignment of procurement strategy where material/service synergies exist.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
* A seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of strategic procurement; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways.
In coordination with Plant and Global cross-functional staff, develops, leads, and executes supply strategies including qualification of alternative materials or sources.
Ensures financial and quality objectives/requirements are clearly identified and met.
* Maintains professional relations with suppliers, other external entities, and Fresenius personnel.
* Prepares Requests for Proposals and oversees proposal process for assigned materials/ services.
* Performs Proposal analysis, including price analyses and Should Cost modeling.
* Develops cost targets for negotiations, and negotiation strategy.
* Supports GMQS North America manufacturing plants in developing budgeted standard cost for materials/services.
* Analyzes GMQS North American and global commodity or service market trends for assigned material/service purchases.
Broadcasts opportunities to GMQS North America Manufacturing Executive and Plant Management, and where applicable GMQS regional Strategic Procurement, and recommends action plans based on market trends.
* Monitors and prepares reports for established performance metrics.
* Drafts contracts, ensuring compliance to legal and internal/external regulations and/or policies.
* Maintains contract database for assigned materials/services.
* Ensures RTG manufacturing and global contracts are administered in accordance with contract terms.
* Acts as Liaison for resolving supplier/material related issues on assigned materials/services.
* Initiates and leads cost reduction and continuous improvement programs including alternative materials/sources, E-commerce, freight, and SAP utilization enhancements.
* Complies with cGMP, ISO, other regulatory requirements, and internal SOPs.
Complies with Safety procedures.
* Maintains general housekeeping of working area and plant.
* Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
Ne...
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Type: Permanent Location: Lexington, US-MA
Salary / Rate: Not Specified
Posted: 2025-12-03 09:05:21
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Hybrid – Upon agreement between you and your supervisor, you are entitled to a flexible arrangement where you will be able to split your time between working from the Lawrence, MA office and working remotely.
PURPOSE AND SCOPE:
Responsible for executing strategies to support GMQS (Global Manufacturing Quality and Supply) North America Manufacturing Strategic Procurement organization objectives.
Responsible for source development, supply strategy, negotiations, contracts, and supplier management for assigned materials and services.
Coordinates with North America Plant Procurement and regional GMQS Strategic Procurement organizations to ensure alignment of procurement strategy where material/service synergies exist.
PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Has wide-ranging experience, and uses professional concepts in developing resolution to critical issues and broad design matters..
* In coordination with Plant and Global cross-functional staff, develops, leads, and executes supply strategies including qualification of alternative materials or sources.
Ensures financial and quality objectives/requirements are clearly identified and met.
* Maintains professional relations with suppliers, other external entities, and Fresenius personnel.
* Prepares Requests for Proposals and oversees proposal process for assigned materials/ services.
* Performs Proposal analysis, including price analyses and Should Cost modeling.
* Develops cost targets for negotiations, and negotiation strategy.
* Supports the development and the execution of the North America Procurement strategy
* Creates templates and forms to standardize processes and improve efficiencies
* Leads cross-category strategic initiatives
* Supports GMQS North America manufacturing plants in developing budgeted standard cost for materials/services.
* Analyzes GMQS North American and global commodity or service market trends for assigned material/service purchases.
Broadcasts opportunities to GMQS North America Manufacturing Executive and Plant Management, and where applicable GMQS regional Strategic Procurement, and recommends action plans based on market trends.
* Monitors and prepares reports for established performance metrics.
* Drafts contracts, ensuring compliance to legal and internal/external regulations and/or policies.
* Maintains contract database for assigned materials/services.
* Ensures RTG manufacturing and global contracts are administered in accordance with contract terms.
* Acts as Liaison for resolving supplier/material related issues on assigned materials/services.
* Initiates and leads cost reduction and continuous improvement programs including alternative materials/sources, E-commerce, freight, and SAP utilization enhancements.
* Complies with cGMP, ISO, other regulatory requirements, and internal SOPs.
Complies with Safety procedures.
* Maintains general housekeeping of wor...
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Type: Permanent Location: Waltham, US-MA
Salary / Rate: Not Specified
Posted: 2025-12-02 07:44:08
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Molex possesses a rich heritage in the optical industry.
We provide the highest performing and field-proven optical communication solutions from optical components, passive and active optical modules to integrated line-cards.
Our team is dedicated to continuous innovation in optical component function integration, miniaturization, and manufacturing automation.
We provide cutting edge technology with a comprehensive optical, mechanical, electrical and software integration capabilities enable us to serve the needs of high-density, high-bandwidth, and flexible optical networks
As a part of supply chain management, the Technical Sourcing Manager will work closely with our R&D and PLM team to develop technology partnerships in the optical component market to enable technology and product advancement and sustainable growth with cost effective solutions for Wavelength Management Product families within our Optical Solutions business unit.
This is an opportunity for an individual to develop and evaluate optical, mechanical and electrical components and technology partners.
This person will also support and recommend technologies and partners for new product development and mass production.
What You Will Do
* Responsible for Wavelength Management product lines; explore and identify technologies and optical components suitable for existing and next gen inter- and intra- hyperscale datacenter and telecommunication market.
* Provide technical guidance to supply chain management teams on passive optical components and providing sourcing needs for PLM and Engineering leaders.
* Act a technical and commercial liaison for NPD and NPI projects between vendor and Molex Engineering/PLM teams on technology assessment, specifications, schedule, capacity, price, commercial terms and agreement with the support of Molex global and optical Supply Chain Management team.
* Work closely with Global teams, especially Zhuhai, China purchasing and production teams to coordinate component supply from small volume built to mass production.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
* Bachelor's Degree in Optical, Electrical, Mechanical, Materials and other Engineering or Physics areas.
* At least 4 years of combined professional work experience in optical engineering (quality, testing, design, process development, application and reliability, technical marketing, engineering sourcing, product line management)
* Experience understanding the product development lifecycles for optical engineering projects
* Experience interfacing with vendors or customers.
* Mandarin speaking.
What Will Put You Ahead
* In-depth knowledge and experience working with Passive and active optical components (WSS, OCM, EDFA, MEMS, PLC, LCOS, packaging material and technologies, PD, APD, TOSA, ROSA, Wafer Fab, etc) for Telecommunication and Datacenter applications.
* 5+ years of industry experience in Optical Engineering including device design, proce...
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Type: Permanent Location: Fremont, US-CA
Salary / Rate: Not Specified
Posted: 2025-11-23 07:37:25
