Procurement Sr. Specialist, NA Engineering Services

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.

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

Kimberly-Clark is looking for an ambitious, self-driven and talented individual to join our Enterprise Procurement Capital and Energy team. You will make a difference by managing strategic sourcing activities within the Indirect space. You will develop category strategies and lead local execution activities. You will support North America businesses to achieve business financial goals, including working capital and cost savings. This role has category management responsibilities for K-C’s purchases primarily in Engineering Services. You will build category expertise and provide guidance to regional teams in the context of stakeholder needs, data quality, and service benchmarking/analysis. You will 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. In addition, you will establish strong stakeholder relationships by providing indirect goods and services expertise and actively engaging stakeholders in procurement processes.

In this role, you will:

• Manage the Engineering Services, Machine Clothing, and Power Distribution categories.
• 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.
• Monitor supplier performance indicators and initiate supplier reviews as required or in accordance with agreed programs to drive improvement and reduce risk across the enterprise.
• Build trust and credibility with suppliers by demonstrating integrity, commitment, and results orientation to drive and deliver results.
• 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.

The successful candidate will join the Enterprise Procurement Capital and Energy team and report to the team’s Senior Director.

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About You

You 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.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. 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 (hybrid) work 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.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• 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
• Business acumen, 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.
• The role supports North America and will be based in Neenah, WI. The candidate should be prepared to travel to engage with stakeholders and suppliers as required to fulfill the role.