Global Procurement Senior Specialist – Transportation & Warehousing

Global Procurement Senior Specialist – Transportation & Warehousing

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 individual to drive our Global Transportation and Warehousing Procurement Strategy. As a Global Category Sr. Specialist, you will make a difference by creating a connected community across our Logistics Procurement teams and Logistics operations, deploying the Global Overarching Category strategy of Warehouse and Transportation, sharing best practices and utilizing analytics for innovative solutions. You will optimize transportation and warehousing services by leveraging total volume, spend, and supplier relationships across segments, ensuring collaboration, innovation, service improvement, and value creation. You will manage key stakeholder relationships and communicate strategies to global and regional procurement teams.  With a Global spend of around $1.6B annually, you will be supporting one of the largest procurement categories at Kimberly-Clark.

In this role, you:

• Serve as a change agent within the Logistics Procurement community, with a strong ownership mentality and willingness to challenge the status quo
• Reports into Global Logistics Procurement Category Director
• Builds a strong procurement and logistics operations network with the Logistics Procurement and Logistics Operations teams in the four business segments – NAM, International Personal Care, International Family Care & Professional and Enterprise Markets.

Strategic category Management and Execution

• Procurement interface with the Transportation and Warehousing stakeholders within each Business Segment and into Global Supply Chain Logistics.
• Develop global category strategy and execution plan; assess supplier landscape and category trends by sourcing and leveraging data & analytics in the Transportation and Warehousing Categories.
• Collaborate with Segment Transportation and Warehousing Operations leaders on joint strategies to identify and prioritize procurement and operational initiatives.
• Identify and manage execution of strategic category initiatives (e.g., stakeholder engagement, supplier-driven innovation) by working closely with business segment procurement and supply chain teams.
• Manage cross-regional engagement with business stakeholders on Transportation and Logistics

Strategic Negotiations and Supplier relationship management

• Support strategic sourcing events & negotiations; work with Agile Squads
• Develop & manage global supplier relationships in collaboration with business leaders (e.g., supplier scouting, raise supply risks / issues from Operations / Planning, provide feedback on supplier performance).
• Stay up to date on the latest trends and developments in the global Transportation & Warehousing categories, using these to build and develop the medium - long term category strategy.
• Risk Management, Contracting and Process Compliance per defined internal controls and policies, standardizing globally as appropriate.
   

Critical Success Factors for the Role           

• Experience managing Transportation and Warehousing Categories.
• Experience in deploying projects, cross functionally and cross regional.
• Proven experience in Driving Change.
• Ability to build collaborative teams without formal leadership
• Proven ability to drive long term value with long-range category strategies and strategic thinking.
• Proven ability to influence both internally and externally
• Proactive interest in staying up to date on market trends and developments and networking appropriately in the wider industry

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-C