Global Category Procurement Manager - Professional Services

Kimberly-Clark • Atlanta, GA

20h • Hybrid

About The Position

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. Kimberly-Clark is looking for an experienced, self-driven and agile individual to be a leader in the Global Professional Services Procurement Team. As a Procurement Category Manager, Professional Services, you will make a difference by developing and executing Global category strategies in the Professional and Management Services space including categories such as Real Estate, Integrated Facilities Management and Travel & Entertainment. This role ensures that Kimberly-Clark’s total volume, spend and supplier relationships are leveraged across segments and integrated for product and service optimization in accordance with our business strategy. The role owns stakeholder relationships globally as well as across regions and segments to maximize K-C’s total value delivery across a portfolio of $350- $400M of annual category spend.

Requirements

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Procurement Category Management with accountability for large, complex spend portfolios within a global or regional scope.
• Minimum of 3+ years of experience managing or supporting categories related to Real Estate, Facilities/IFM, Workplace Services, or Travel & Expense (T&E) strongly preferred
• Highly developed business and financial acumen, with the ability to use data, benchmarks, and market insights to support category strategy and recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience operating effectively within a global, matrixed organization, partnering across regions, functions, and senior stakeholder groups
• Proven and highly skilled experience leading complex commercial negotiations, delivering strong positive outcomes and managing strategic supplier relationships.
• Highly effective stakeholder management and relationship‑building skills, with the ability to partner across diverse functions and perspectives.
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, navigate ambiguity, and drive alignment in complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to build credibility quickly and operate effectively in a highly visible, relationship‑driven stakeholder environment.
• Experience engaging stakeholders from working level through senior leadership.
• Adept planning, prioritization, and execution skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain strong category management discipline across Real Estate, Integrated Facilities Management (IFM), and Travel & Expenses (T&E), including clear strategies, sourcing roadmaps, demand management levers, and performance metrics
• Ensure clear line of sight to global strategy, providing seamless alignment with all regional, segment specific and global business requirements.
• Ensure effective category governance, including alignment to Procurement policies, approval frameworks, contract standards, and Kimberly‑Clark Code of Conduct requirements.
• Lead and maintain end‑to‑end visibility of category performance, risks, savings delivery, and commercial obligations, providing transparency to stakeholders and Procurement leadership.
• Drive a structured check‑and‑adjust cadence to review category performance, supplier outcomes, and market changes, ensuring strategies remain relevant and value is sustained over time while providing clear line of sight to the business.
• Identify and proactively manage category‑level risks, including supply continuity, service performance, financial exposure, and reputational risk, escalating as appropriate undefined
• Ability to proactively identify risks and challenges within the category and work with respective leaders to build mitigation plans.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Procurement team members on the Global team and promote best practice development and sharing.
• Demonstrated ability to provide visibility of risk, opportunities and take ownership of all Procurement actions needed to ensure delivery of desired outcomes (commercial terms and risk management).
• Ability to ensure compliance with all Kimberly-Clark Code of Conduct and Procurement rules.

Benefits

• Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions.
• Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.
• Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.
• Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.
• Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level