Enterprise Category Manager – Maintenance, Repair & Operating Supplies

Enterprise Category Manager – Maintenance, Repair & Operating Supplies

Job Description

883651 Enterprise Category Manager – Maintenance, Repair & Operating Supplies

Additional locations to be considered for qualified candidates

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.

The Kimberly-Clark Procurement organization is driving a transformation agenda towards a more strategic and enterprise approach, enabling simplification and standardization of categories and processes with a collaborative mindset. This role has category management responsibilities for Kimberly-Clark’s purchases in the MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Operation) equipment category, with enterprise spend of $300 - $400 million and will report directly to the Senior Director, Enterprise Capital and Energy Procurement.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and set enterprise strategy, ensuring alignment with business needs, engaging with key stakeholders and ensuring the deployment by regional/segment teams

• Lead and enable regional teams, understanding segment/plant needs and ensuring deployment of enterprise category strategy

• Lead supplier relationship management, building partnerships with strategic suppliers in the category

• Supports programs and initiatives to reduce complexity and promote standardization of categories and processes

• Understands market movement and industry benchmarks and best practices

• Cultivates strategic supplier partnerships to unlock innovation and drive enterprise value

• Champion a high‑performance culture, fostering talent development, engagement, and collaboration across globally dispersed teams

• Engage and align stakeholders consistently across functions and regions

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. 

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

• 10+ years of experience including plant manufacturing and/or staff leadership; equipment category management preferred 

• 3+ years of people management experience

• Business acumen, excellent communication skills (both written and oral) ability to communicate up and across the organization, cross functional collaboration & influencing

• Strong project management, process improvement, analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experience working in a complex global / diverse environment

• Effective negotiator with proven results

Preferred:

• Advanced degree

• Procurement transformation experience within procurement categori