Global Procurement Category Director - Marketing

Global Procurement Category Director - Marketing

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. 

 

As the Global Procurement Director – Marketing, you'll be a thought leader, accountable for world-class procurement of Media, Creative & Marketing Services globally, and will be the kind of person who thrives in an environment where you have the empowerment to succeed. Following a recent business-wide transformation and associated operating models, you will embed and optimize the commercial outcomes and opportunities that the new approach will deliver.  You will create outstanding stakeholder partnerships internally, and collaborative relationships externally with our key marketing agencies – these relationships will be key to delivering beyond expectations in the key deliverables of full potential value.  Serving all business segments and partnering closely with our Global Growth Organization, the global Marketing Procurement team consists of 7 procurement professionals and manages a network of global vendors, with $1.3 billion in annual spend.

 

 

Key focus areas of role:

 

Strategic Category Management & Execution

• Lead the annual development / review and execution of global Marketing category strategies aligned to business needs, leveraging a deep understanding of the relevant considerations in procuring Media, Creative, Insights & Analytics, & Marketing services.
• Anticipate future business needs and proactively develop options to allow for quicker decision making and speed-to-market supporting projects with large potential impact to business results.
• Execute commercial negotiation of vendor contracts on behalf of K-C, in alignment with key business stakeholders.  Utilize experience creating negotiation strategy to develop a business-aligned approach and to coach team toward successful outcomes.
• Drive initiatives that enable spend optimization / reduction, revenue growth, margin improvement, risk management and process optimization.
• Establish and foster a global Marketing Procurement community that brings together both Global and Regional procurement team members from across our four business segments, and who work in the marketing procurement category, as well as cross-functional partners in the Marketing organizations
• Provide on-going, expert level, category knowledge and insights into each business Segment and the Global Growth Organization.
• Build and nurture excellent stakeholder relationships across the Segment Marketing and Global Growth partner organizations – these relationships will be key to the success of this role, and the ideal candidate will need to have demonstrated a track record of bringing insights and thought leadership to established and productive stakeholder relationships.

 

Vendor Performance and Relationship Management:

• Provide global leadership for vendor collaboration and innovation in alignment with long-term business strategies.
• Following the implementation of a new Marketing Agency model in early 2025, the successful candidate will be responsible for establishing supplier relationship management with our agency partners, optimizing the model with our Global Growth Organization, and incenting our agency partners to operate at higher levels of performance.
• Identify, cultivate, and develop excellent relationships with vendors, in particular our media, creative and insights agencies, that can become strategic partners. Establish aggressive objectives for total value delivery including price, service, innovation, compliance, and cost objectives for key vendors. Maintain an understanding of global benchmarks for key performance measures and best practices.
• Partner with business teams to regularly engage strategic vendors at the leadership level.

 

Team Leadership:

• Responsible for hiring and onboarding team members and managing ongoing performance with a direct team of 7 b