Professional - Procurement Category Manager

Job Title: Professional - Procurement Category Manager
Location (On-site, Remote, or Hybrid?): China or Singapore (remote)
Contract Duration: 3-4 months

Manager is seeking candidates in China or Singapore for this position. Position is remote, but must be in one of these countries locally.

Candidates MUST be able to speak English and Mandarin.

Role:
Looking for an ambitious, self-driven individual to lead our Global Personal Care Procurement Strategy as part of the External Contract Manufacturing team. As a Global Category Specialist, you will make a difference by creating a connected community across our Personal Care Procurement and ECM operations teams, deploying the global category strategy, and building a resilient, cost effective supply chain through data-focused analytics, stakeholder management, and supplier relationships. This role will support a number of key Personal Care product categories with a focus on the North America Segment.

Responsibilities:
Category Strategy & Governance

• Help place K-C at the forefront of External Contract Manufacturing through collaboration across multiple supply chain functions.
• Provide a sound understanding of the Personal Care/business market dynamics and benchmarking with a focus on North America Segment needs.
• Support the development of a global procurement strategy and ensure seamless alignment with local, regional and global requirements.
• Develop recommendations through fact-based analysis in support of a resilient, cost-effective supply base aligned with business and product requirements
• Drive efficiency by reducing complexity and promoting standardization wherever possible.
• Collaborate with cross functional product owners across Procurement, Planning, Logistics, Transportation, Manufacturing, Quality and Safety teams to achieve challenging goals
• Support strategic supplier partnerships that deliver measurable business opportunities and continuous innovation.
• Govern and enforce the category strategy and K-C processes, while leading with a continuous improvement mindset for routine category strategy updates.

Engagement & Change Management

• Establish trust and create an environment of accountability with stakeholders impacted by ECM goals and objectives.
• Routinely influence at multiple levels of the organization
• Contribute to peer and cross-functional teams across multiple levels of the organization in the creation and execution of Personal Care strategies and initiatives.
• Contribute to market benchmarking and supplier scans to inform initiative prioritization, supplier selection, and negotiation strategy

Commercial Leadership & Risk Management

• Drive out single source supply where applicable and lead informed RFx events to achieve a balanced scorecard for the category
• Partner with other ECM Procurement team members in the ownership and execution of all commercial terms and supplier negotiations
• Promote best practice development and sharing.
• Ensure compliance with all K-C Code of Conduct and Procurement rules.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in supply chain, engineering, or relevant field
• 5+ years of Procurement, Supply Chain, or related business experience
• Experience in Strategic Sourcing, Category Management, and Stakeholder Management
• Experience contributing to multi-year category and supplier relationship strategies
• Strong negotiation skills with experience leveraging data and benchmarking to achieve target contract structures and pricing agreements
• Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills
• Ability to manage programs in a matrixed organization
• Ability to work across global regions, cultures, and time zones
• Ability to reconcile diverse business strategies and challenges
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

Preferred:

• Experience working with Coupa, SAP, and ETQ
• Understanding of finished product manufacturing processes