Job Description

Global Category Manager - Travel & Expense Management

The Global procurement Organization is driving a transformation agenda, driving increased levels of collaboration and a more strategic global approach to category management, enabling simplification and standardization of procurement category and process

This role has Global & NA Category Management responsibilities for Kimberly-Clarks purchase in Travel & Expense Management plus additional Management Services responsibilities. The total spend is approx. $120M and will report directly to Global Procurement Director for Professional Services.

The Procurement Consultant - Professional Services:

* Develops and leads the deployment of global strategies.
* Collaborates effectively with regional teams to understand BU needs
* Establishes strong connections with stakeholders, engaging them in the procurement process
* Ensures that K-C is leveraging its global volume and market position.
* Is in charge of Supplier relationship management, building partnerships with strategic suppliers.

Is this you?

* You are driven to understand global professional service categories, leveraging global scale and bring competiveness to K-C business.
* You can successfully drive value in a category by developing category strategy that puts Kimberly- Clark in a favorable position and are a skilled negotiator.
* You are willing to push the strategy beyond the norm and are recommending and taking calculated risks. You are able to diagnose and resolve complex issues and opportunities within business sourcing models and in diversity environment.
* You work effectively with Regional Buyers, guiding and ensuring the deployment of category strategies.
* You have the demonstrated ability to understand strategic business needs, communication and relationship building skills at different organization levels, willingness to be a team player, are available to travel internationally and working with different cultures.

Responsibilities;

Strategic Category Management

* Develops Global Category Strategy, incorporating regional inputs and business needs and ensuring alignment with stakeholders and regional procurement teams
* Leads category agenda globally, influencing and guiding regional teams.
* Fully understand and leverage market dynamics and benchmarks.
* Drive complexity reduction and promote standardization of categories and processes.
* Develop supplier partnerships, which will bring business opportunities and innovation for K-C.
* Lead/support strategy deployment and change management activities

Leadership & Relationship Management

* Ability to work with, and influence at different levels of the K-C organization.
* Excellent senior level/executive stakeholder relationship management
* Connects with stakeholders and keeps them engaged.
* Provides visibility of global risk and opportunities.

Demand and Process Management

* Engages category stakeholders as needed to understand demand.
* Ability to prioritize and create processes in a high volume / high impact spend area
* Promotes best practices sharing across regions.

Negotiation Gold Standard

* Understanding of market dynamics and benchmarking.
* Excellent negotiation capabilities.
* Ability to work with complex categories and with multiples stakeholders.

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* Qualifications:
* Bachelors degree required.
* Minimum of 5 years of experience in Procurement or Broader Supply Chain. (3+ years in Professional Services Category preferred)
* Experience working in a complex global / diverse environment.
* Extensive experience in stakeholder management.
* Self-motivated and assertive with internal and external contacts.
* Ability to influence with and without authority.
* Ability to reconcile diverse business strategies and challenges.
* Skilled negotiator / results oriented.
* Exceptional analytic skills.