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 your Global Category Manager role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world

Job Summary:

Kimberly Clark's Global Procurement Organization is leading a transformation agenda, increased levels of collaboration and a more strategic global approach to category management. This approach enables focus on customers, moving fast, playing to win and standardization of Procurement categories and processes. The role has category management responsibilities for Kimberly-Clark’s purchase in Travel, Expense, meetings and Financial Services globally. With a spend of over $200M this role will report directly to the Global Director Procurement - Professional Services.

Responsibilities:

• Develops and leads the execution of global Sourcing strategies.

• Collaborates seamlessly with regional Leaders to understand BU needs.

• Establishes strong connections with critical senior stakeholders. Engaging & influencing them in the strategic Sourcing process, Procurement process compliance and efficient delivery of successful business outcomes.

• Ensures that K-C is leveraging its global volume and market position.

• Leads supplier relationship management & growing our partnerships with strategic suppliers.

• Fully understands and leverages market dynamics, best practices and benchmarks.

• Drives simplification and promotes standardization of processes.

• Build or revise current global category strategy to reflect aggressive, calculated risk opportunities over 3-5 years.

About Us:

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best teams committed to driving innovation and growth. We’re founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform—so what can you do with that? There’s no time like the present to make an impact at Kimberly-Clark. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

About You:

You’re driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

To succeed in this role:

• You are comfortable operating in uncertainty.

• You are driven to understand global professional services categories, leverage global scale and bring competitive advantage to K-C.

• You can successfully find and drive value by developing a strategy that puts Kimberly-Clark in a high-value posture.

• You are an experience and highly skilled negotiator.

• You are willing to push the Enterprise “as-is” mindset beyond status-quo and taking calculated risks.

• You can diagnose and resolve complex challenges-opportunities unique to your client’s multi-national environment.

• You work effectively with regional teams, guiding and ensuring the consistent deployment of our strategies.

• You have a history of successfully anticipating ever-shifting strategic business needs, proactively communicating-inspiring leaders and building strong relationships at the highest levels within our organization.

• You pride yourself on being a reliable team member, mentor, teacher and working seamlessly across a diverse culture.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Global Procurement (at least 3 years in Professional Services T&E , meetings, and Financial Services is an advantage).

• Experience working in a complex globally matrixed environment.

• Extensive experience in stakeholder management.

• Strong analytic skills.

• Skilled in Supplier Relationship Management.

• Skilled in fast-efficient completion of redline process between legal, other stakeholders and vendor.

Total Benefits: For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com

Hybrid Work Arrangements: You’re looking to make a difference. When and where it works best for you. And at Kimberly Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works, flexible work (hybrid) arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

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