Procurement Manager, Mill Services - NA

Procurement Manager, Mill Services - NA

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 (K-C) is looking for an ambitious, self-driven and talented individual to join our NA Procurement team. You will make a difference by leading a team of procurement professionals responsible for supporting strategic and tactical sourcing activities for regionally managed mill and professional services categories.  You will provide direction to ensure the efficient processing of tactical procurement activities in support of NA to achieve variable cost productivity, working capital, and business financial goals.  In addition, you will provide guidance to ensure the team is supporting strategic sourcing activities including supplier selection, development, and overall supplier management processes.

In this role you will:

• Lead the NA Mill Services Procurement team.
• Responsible for achieving regional procurement targets for categories in scope.
• Provide direction to Mill Services team for strategic and tactical sourcing activities.
• Ensure team is supporting category strategies & implementation plans created by Regional Category Lead.
• Ensure team is supporting execution of category strategic initiatives.
• Drive execution of regional sourcing events, working with Agile Squads
• Assess NA supplier landscape and market dynamics (e.g., emerging suppliers & innovation, supply / market trends, etc.).
• Coordinate with business stakeholders on category needs and strategy (e.g., collect business requirements.
• Serve as a change agent for the Procurement organization, with a strong ownership mentality and willingness to challenge the status quo.
• Identify hurdles and barriers to change, resolve where possible or escalate as appropriate.
• Ensure compliance with K-C Policies and internal controls.
• 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.

The successful candidate will join the NA Procurement team and report to the NA Procurement Sr. Manager, Marketing & Professional Services.

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, supply chain or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in Procurement, preferred experience in category management.
• Business acumen, excellent communication skills (both written and oral) able to communicate up and across the organization, cross functional collaboration & influencing, project management, analytical,