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Job Description

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.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the Forecasting, Procurement (Local and Imports) for all goods, services including all categories (Direct, Indirects, PS) & Inventory Management for Kimberly-Clark, India. It creates and implements a culture of effective internal controls, risk management and governance for organization-wide procurement process.
• This position engages with Country Leadership to drive Business and Functional Priorities. The position will develop, create and implement robust, sustainable business processes. In line with the K-C Regional and Global guidelines.
• It also works with Cross Functional Teams to deliver DTV and YOY Cost savings and continuously strive to explore avenues of cost reduction across the chain. This would include Regional and Global lift and shift opportunities.
• Drive the RFQ process, define evaluation criteria, identify, and select suppliers, execute the evaluation process, refine, and validate sourcing and purchasing options, manage buy-in of business unit leaders both locally and regionally.
• Responsible to build sound relationships with suppliers and partners (internal and external)
• Manage contract information to ensure that portfolio has consistent information and renewals, or termination due date are under control.
• Continually look for ways to exceed customer’s expectations, increase efficiency implement better processes and achieve cost savings for the areas responsible.
• Advise internal customers on procurement issues, providing support and guidance at all stages of the procurement cycle.

• Supplier evaluation/sourcing
  • Identify, select, evaluate determine the optimised supplier base.
  • Work with suppliers to find ways of qualifying/improving supplier performance
  • Negotiate major items and conditions for all contracts (price, delivery, payment term) along with the project manager and Country Lead Procurement
  • Implement annual supplier audit and appraisal

• Internal customer service and control
  • Ensure contracts in place and updated in system for all services / goods procured as per K-C IC and Legal / Procurement guidelines.
• Alignment with Local / Regional & Global Stakeholders
  • Understand and communicate local plans with the Regional Team
  • Work closely with regional category Team for implementation / cost savings / deriving values in local market with Regionally driven projects.
  • Ensure Localisation is a part of the process and able to communicate and seek alignment with the regional teams.

• Cost/ Cash Saving:
  • Own Procurement KPI- Financial commitment for Cost/ cash saving by Initiating saving activities to achieve the target.
  • Monitor and follow up the progress to ensure everything is on track and result oriented.
• Audit handling
  • Organise and maintain all documentation related to procurement in the system
  • Independently handle Internal / External audits related to the Procurement department

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

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 Supply Planning Lead 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:

Professional with majors in Supply Chain Management/ Procurement with longer than 10 years of experience in FMCG.

• Excellent communication skills in English for managing supplier relationship management and internal stakeholder management, both written and speaking.
• Problem solving and decision making.
• Highest level of integrity/ Compliance.
• Negotiation Gold Standard/ Strategic Category Management.
• Learning agility
• Analytical capability
• Solving problem.
• High resilience to move fast in changing and dynamic environment.
• Procurement Digitalization (SAP/ Coupa/ ETQ/ Wave – cost saving tracking system/ Power BI)
• Should be able to collaboratively work across functions / geographies (Regional/Global teams)
• Should have a continuous improvement mindset.
• Ability to deal with ambiguous challenges.

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

In the meantime, please check out the careers website.

And finally, the fine print….

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.