NA Procurement Sr. Specialist, Engineering Services

NA Procurement Sr. Specialist, Engineering Services

Job Description

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.

Kimberly-Clark is looking for an ambitious, self-driven and talented individual to join our NA Procurement 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. 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 and Power Distribution categories in the Indirect team.
• Deliver regional procurement targets for categories in scope.
• Coordinate with regional 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 region-specific supplier relationships, escalate, and resolve region-specific 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 regional 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, and final contract award and implementation.
• Lead regional sourcing events, collaborating with Agile Squads
• Identify hurdles and barriers to change, resolve where possible or escalate as appropriate.
• Ensure compliance to K-C Policies and internal controls.

The successful candidate will join the NA Procurement team and report to the NA Leader of Indirect Procurement.

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, 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