Procurement Sr. Specialist, NA Engineering Services

About the role

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. You are not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we are 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 will bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you will help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

Responsibilities

• Manage strategic sourcing activities within the Indirect space.
• Develop category strategies and lead local execution activities.
• Support North America businesses to achieve business financial goals, including working capital and cost savings.
• Build category expertise and provide guidance to regional teams in the context of stakeholder needs, data quality, and service benchmarking/analysis.
• Lead Supplier Relationship Management by building and facilitating partnerships with strategic suppliers and key executives within K-C while ensuring K-C is maximizing value on spend.
• Establish strong stakeholder relationships by providing indirect goods and services expertise and actively engaging stakeholders in procurement processes.
• Deliver segment procurement targets for categories in scope.
• Coordinate with segment and enterprise business stakeholders on category needs and strategy (e.g., collect business requirements).
• Execute category strategic initiatives.
• Create and maintain category management knowledge and processes to ensure the category strategies are informed, relevant and up to date.
• Manage supplier relationships, escalate, and resolve supplier continuity issues, etc.
• Maintain an effective business relationship with all suppliers and stakeholders based on clear, concise group and personal communication.
• Lead bidding process, negotiating pricing/terms and conditions, contracting and implementation.
• Lead sourcing events, collaborating with the Agile Squad team.
• Identify hurdles and barriers to change, resolve where possible or escalate as appropriate.
• Ensure compliance with K-C Policies and internal controls.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution in business, engineering, supply chain or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in Procurement, preferred experience in category management.
• Intellectually curious, strong analytical skills.
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral), able to communicate up and across the organization, cross functional collaboration & influencing, functional and technical awareness.
• Strong project management, process improvement, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently in a heavily matrixed organization.

Qualifications

• Based in Neenah, WI.
• Preferably based in Neenah, WI.
• Will be based in Neenah, WI.

Benefits

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you. Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.