Procurement Team Leader
Kimberly-Clark

Job Info

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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.

The Procurement Manager for Strategic Material Sourcing is responsible for leading a team of direct reports to ensure the reliable cost effective supply of a portfolio of materials to support manufacturing and shipment of K-C products across North America product facilities. The Procurement manager is responsible for the personal development of the team and guide the team as they support the strategic sourcing process including supplier selection, development, and overall supplier management processes including managing the entire contract life cycle from request for proposal (RFP) to supplier exit.

In this role, you will:

• Provide leadership to the Strategic Materials Sourcing Team terms of strategy, organization, standard work, training, and development.

• Lead team of commodity managers responsible for development implementation and execution of sourcing activities that ensures reliable supply at the lowest total delivered cost and working capital.

• Proactively anticipate potential team issues and roadblocks and effectively identify trends and apply solutions.

• Set clear and attainable project objectives, build project requirements, determine resources, manage risks and constraints, and ensure these are on-time, within budget and at the required level of quality.

• Drive the procurement organization on continuous improvement through expert guidance with a full range of problem-solving tools, thinking, systems, and processes.

• Lead team value creation efforts in support of mill cost of sales and distribution objectives.

• Collaborate with other organizations in Procure-to-Pay process to develop best practices for standard use in PO processing.

• Drive personal accountability and set high goals for personal and group accomplishment; tenaciously work to meet or exceed goals.

• Demonstrate expertise in data manipulation, ability to analyze data and information to identify trends and opportunities. Proficient use of data to measure process improvement, including increased automation and reduction of blocked invoices, and to identify opportunities for cost reduction.

The successful candidate will join the North American Procurement team and report to Sr. Manager, Direct Materials Sourcing.

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.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

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 will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, engineering, or related discipline.

• 5+ years of procurement or business experience in tactical processes.

• Experience in coaching and mentoring others.

• Analysis experience in which key findings have been translated into plans/strategies to support business needs.

• Experience establishing networks and building relationships internally and externally.

• Procurement system (ie. Taulia, SAP) experience preferred.

• Problem solving experience in reducing total costs and improving processes.

• Led and delivered on multi-disciplined, multi-site, multi-region projects.

• Demonstrated experience as a strategic thought leader with the ability to influence others.

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.

Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact 866-444-4516 for assistance. You must include the six digit Job # with your request.

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.

K-C will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role. The benefits provided will be per the terms of K-C's applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will decided in K-C's sole discretion.

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