Global Procurement Sr. Specialist, Chemicals

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**.

Kimberly-Clark is looking for an ambitious, self-driven and talented individual to join our Global Chemical team. You will make a difference by supporting global execution activities in support of the strategy to achieve variable cost productivity, working capital, and business financial goals. You will lead the supplier selection, development, and overall supplier management processes, including managing the entire contract life cycle from request for proposal (RFP) to supplier exit. In addition, you will work closely with category managers, business units and cross-functional team to achieve strategic sourcing objectives for the commodity.

**In this role, you will**:

- Support development of global category strategy via collecting input from Global Category Managers, conducting analyses on market trends, etc.
- Project manage cross-regional sourcing events and category initiatives.
- Support development of global category strategy via collecting input from Global Category Managers, conducting analyses on market trends, etc.
- Execute category strategy & implementation plan created by Category Lead
- Support sourcing events, working with Agile Squads
- Support execution of category strategic initiatives
- Manage supplier relationships, escalate and resolve supplier continuity issues, etc.
- Serve as a BAU analytics resource (e.g., support analysis on supplier landscape and market dynamics)
- Manage, track, and report on category cost, sourcing initiatives & results.
- Support in the creation and maintenance of category knowledge and processes to ensure the category strategies are informed, relevant and up to date.
- 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.
- Region-agnostic category support role; reports into Global Category Lead

**About Us**

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, million of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform - so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

**Led by Purpose. Driven by You.**

**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.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

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

- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution in business, supply chain or related discipline
- 8+ 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, project management, analytical, problem solving, Functional and Technical awareness, Manage Vision, and Purpose.
- Ability to work independently in a heavily matrixed organization.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

**Total Benefits**

**Great support for good health** with medical, dental, and