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 Senior Procurement Manager – Global Warehousing, you will have overall responsibility to develop procurement standardization and best practice sharing within the warehousing category across the globe. The role serves to support regional procurement teams develop and execute their category strategies as well as directly manage North America’s warehouse equipment procurement and yard jockey services. There is a great opportunity for the chosen candidate to shape and to optimize this role including how to best utilize Kimberly-Clark’s Global Business Services team to support procurement tasks. Candidates must demonstrate an optimization and self-starting mindset as well as the ability to effectively interface and influence a broad range of stakeholders in a globally matrixed organization.

Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with and coordinate regional procurement and operations teams globally
• Develop and introduce best practice thinking in Warehousing
• Develop data insights and visibility across the Warehousing spend base that will enable cost and service optimization, support improved business partnering within Kimberly-Clark and drive relationship management with suppliers
• Manage sourcing and supplier management of warehouse equipment, infrastructure and yard jockey services in North America and consider how to optimize this for the future and leverage Kimberly-Clark’s scale globally
• Develop and support the deployment of a standardized, global supplier management approach that leverages existing Regional supplier performance management
• Support the implementation and adoption of a new spend taxonomy and sourcing approach as part of Kimberly-Clark’s Coupa deployment
• Create global, standardized warehouse contractual terms to support internal benchmarking, best practice contracting and enablement of broader Logistics strategies led by Procurement’s business partners

About Us

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best teams committed to driving innovation and growth. We’re founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform—so what can you do with that? There’s no time like the present to make an impact at Kimberly-Clark. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

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About You

You’re driven to 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.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher preferably in a Business, Science, Mathematical or similar subject
• 6+ years’ experience working in Supply Chain or Procurement

Preferred Qualifications:

• Warehousing and Manual Handling Equipment experience
• Strong innovative, analytical and facilitation skills
• Sourcing and contract negotiation experience
• Experience working in a global, matrix organization, working closely with Regional teams to leverage best practice demonstrating strong leadership skills
• Excellent relationship management and leadership skills and the ability to engage both internal and external stakeholders

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact 866-444-4516 for assistance. You must include the six digit Job # with your request. The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

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