Global Category Manager - Eucalyptus

Kimberly-Clark•Atlanta, GA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. You were made to create Better Care for a Better World. As a person, you’re a problem-solver – a connector – someone who thrives on creating order from complexity and driving continuous improvement. You see the big picture while mastering the details, ensuring that every product, process, and partnership flows with precision and purpose. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity, efficiency, and collaboration, always working to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s success stories. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. About You 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in business, supply chain or related discipline; and 5+ years’ experience in Procurement or other supply chain related function
Excellent communication skills (both written and oral) with ability to communicate up and across the organization
Cross functional collaboration and influencing, project management, analytical and problem-solving skills

Nice To Haves

Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

Responsibilities

As a part of the Global Fiber and Fluff category team, develop and execute the global Eucalyptus category strategy by collecting inputs from North America supply chain leaders, NA R&D and Enterprise Value Stream teams (e.g., market trends, mill synergies, business needs); Execute the category strategy implementation plan across North America (as created by the Global Category Leader) and continuously refresh the strategy via regular check/adjust cadence.
Manage category initiatives and strategic projects across North America (e.g., innovation, furnish mix changes, best-practice sharing, data gathering/inputs); Create and maintain category knowledge, playbooks, and processes to ensure strategies remain informed, relevant, and up to date; Represent Procurement on Enterprise Value Stream activities for category-related projects.
Support execution of Eucalyptus initiatives by partnering with Global R&D, Enterprise Value Stream and segments to scale adoption and identify suppliers to support the program.
Establish trust and accountability with stakeholders; communicate clearly and succinctly on platform goals, risks, and changes; Partner with procurement business partners, R&D and Agile squads (and other cross-functional product owners as applicable) to deliver sourcing and category initiatives.
Maintain strong connectivity with CoE and amplified commodities teams to exchange/build market intelligence and support ABU reviews and sourcing analytics; Lead through hands-on engagement with decision makers to drive alignment and change adoption; Lead and support sourcing events at both a global and segment level (as needed); routinely benchmark "mark the market" through competitive RFXs for new services and renewals and challenge auto-renewals; Own key global supplier relationships; plan quarterly SRM reviews and value/innovation discussions; escalate and resolve supplier continuity issues.
Own Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) for one key strategic partner, with a focus on maintaining and nurturing the relationship through regular governance, executive alignment, and proactive issue resolution; Build and sustain a joint value-creation roadmap with the strategic partner (cost, service, sustainability, and innovation), tracking actions and outcomes through quarterly business reviews; Manage, track and report category costs, sourcing initiatives, savings, and results.
Lead and monitor supplier performance to improve service, quality, and cost; reduce enterprise risk (including continuity and single-source exposure where applicable); Identify and evaluate new suppliers and supplier innovations with R&D; help structure term sheets and commercial frameworks that provide advantaged pricing and access to novel technology; Track fiber sustainability supplier roadmap (e.g., FSC certificates, Scope 3 programs); Ensure compliance with applicable procurement rules and Code of Conduct; promote best-practice development and sharing.