Procurement Specialist, MRO

Procurement Specialist, MRO

Job Description

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.

 In this role you will: 


* Manage the General Industrial Supplies and Safety categories on the Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) team.


* Deliver regional procurement targets for categories in scope.


* Coordinate with regional business stakeholders on category needs and strategy (e.g., collect business requirements)


* Execute the category’s strategic initiatives.


* Create and maintain category management knowledge and processes to ensure the category strategies are informed, relevant and up to date.


* Manage region-specific supplier relationships, escalate, and resolve supplier continuity issues, etc.


* Monitor supplier performance indicators and initiate supplier reviews as required or in accordance with agreed programs to drive improvement and reduce risk across the regional enterprise. 


* Lead bidding processes, negotiating pricing/terms and conditions, and final contract award and implementation.


* Identify hurdles and barriers to change, resolve where possible or escalate as appropriate.

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.

In one of our Supply Chain 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


* 3+ 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, functional and technical awareness.


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


* Ability to work independently in a heavily matrixed organization.

About Us

Huggies®.

Kleenex®.

Cottonelle®.

Scott®.

Kotex®.

Poise®.

Depend®.

Kimberly-Clark Professional®.

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