Global Category Specialist, Moist Wipes

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.

Kimberly-Clark is looking for an ambitious, self-driven individual to lead our Global Moist Wipes Procurement Strategy as part of the External Contract Manufacturing team. As a Global Category Specialist, you will make a difference by creating a connected community across our Moist Wipes Procurement and ECM operations teams, deploying the global category strategy, and building a resilient, cost-effective supply chain through data-focused analytics, stakeholder management, and supplier relationships.

**In this role you will**:
**_Category Strategy & Governance_**
- Help place K-C at the forefront of Moist Wipes External Contract Manufacturing through collaboration across multiple supply chain functions.
- Provide a sound understanding of the Moist Wipes/business market dynamics and benchmarking.
- Lead the development of a global procurement strategy and ensure seamless alignment with local, regional and global requirements.
- Develop recommendations through fact-based analysis in support of a resilient, cost-effective supply base aligned with business and product requirements
- Drive efficiency by reducing complexity and promoting standardization wherever possible.
- Collaborate with cross functional product owners across Procurement, Planning, Logistics, Transportation, Manufacturing, Quality and Safety teams to achieve challenging goals
- Develop strategic supplier partnerships that deliver measurable business opportunities and continuous innovation.
- Govern and enforce the category strategy and K-C processes, while leading with a continuous improvement mindset for routine category strategy updates.

**_ Engagement & Change Management_**
- Establish trust and create an environment of accountability with stakeholders impacted by ECM goals and objectives.
- Routinely influence at all levels of leadership through routine, succinct communication
- Lead peer and cross-functional teams across multiple levels of the organization in the creation and execution of Moist Wipes strategies and initiatives.
- Lead market benchmarking and supplier scans to inform initiative prioritization, supplier selection, and negotiation strategy

**_ Commercial Leadership & Risk Management_**
- Drive out single source suppliers where applicable and lead informed RFx events to achieve a balanced scorecard for the category
- Partner with other ECM Procurement team members in the ownership and execution of all commercial terms and supplier negotiations
- Promote best practice development and sharing.
- Ensure compliance with all K-C Code of Conduct and Procurement rules.

**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 in supply chain, engineering, or relevant field
- 7+ years of Procurement, Supply Chain, or related business experience
- Experience in Strategic Sourcing, Category Management, and Stakeholder Management
- Experience developing multi-year category and supplier relationship strategies across a diverse product and supplier portfolio
- Strong negotiation skills with experience leveraging data and benchmarking to achieve target contract structures and pricing agreements
- Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage programs in a matrixed organization
- Ability to work across global regions, cultures, and time zones
- Ability to reconcile diverse business strategies and challenges
- Ability to travel up to 25%.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Experience working with Coupa, SAP, and ETQ
- Experience with non-wovens based products through supply chain or technical roles
- Understanding of finished product manufacturing processes