Procurement Manager, Warehouse

Procurement Manager, Warehouse

Job Description

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 NA Indirect Services team. You will make a difference by leading a team of procurement professionals responsible for strategic sourcing activities within the Warehousing Indirect Goods and Services categories.  You will provide direction in the development of category strategies and local execution activities. You will support North America businesses to achieve business financial goals, including working capital. In addition to leading a team, this role has category management responsibilities for K-C’s purchases primarily in Warehousing 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:

• Lead the NA Warehousing Indirect Goods and Services team.
• Responsible for achieving regional procurement targets for categories in scope.
• Provide direction to the team in the development of category strategies and local execution activities.
• Coordinate with regional business stakeholders on category needs and strategy (e.g., collect business requirements)
• Support execution of 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.
• Support regional sourcing events, working 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.

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, millions 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.

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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 experienc