Emea Media Procurement Category Manager
17 hours ago
EMEA Media Procurement Category Manager
**EMEA Media Procurement Category Manager**:
**Location - EMEA Flexible**:
**The Job**
The new 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 categories and processes.
This role has category management responsibilities for Kimberly-Clark’s purchases in Marketing for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) which includes Creative Agencies, Media, Market Research, Insights & Analytics, and Production, with a spend of approx. $50M and will report directly to the Global Director Procurement
- Marketing.
The Procurement Lead - EMEA Marketing:
- Provides input to and supports the deployment of global strategies
- Develops and leads the deployment of regional strategies.
- Establishes strong connections with stakeholders, engaging them in the procurement process
- Ensures that Kimberly-Clark is leveraging its volume and market position.
- Builds partnerships with strategic suppliers i.e. Media Agency, Joint Business Partners (Google, etc.), and/or Consultant/Auditors to ensure ensures performance and compliance with agreed upon KPI’s and deliverables.
- Develops and leads deployment of cost reduction/mitigation, process efficiency and added value management based on global and regional business objectives.
**What is it like to work at Kimberly-Clark?**
Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day.
The identity of each and every one of our employees makes us who we are and makes our global company of over 40,000-plus employees stronger because of it. We are in the business of providing better care for a better world, for everyone, everywhere. At Kimberly-Clark treating individuals with respect is the way we do business and the way we lead our industry and our world. We’re building an organisation that looks and thinks like our customers around the world and are searching for talented people with different perspectives and varied backgrounds. People like you. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to join us
**About You**
- You will have great attention to detail, concise and clear in both verbal and written communication & presentation skills.
- You will be driven to understand marketing categories, leveraging scale and bringing competitiveness to the K-C business. You can successfully drive value in a category by developing a 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 identify opportunities within different business sourcing models and in diverse environments.
- You work effectively across the Global and Regional Procurement Teams, 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 and have the willingness to be a team player
- You have an understanding of market dynamics, which includes the relationship between the Media Agency, Creative Agency, Content Creation Partners, and Scaled Production Agencies.
- You will develop supplier partnerships, which will bring business opportunities and innovation for Kimberly-Clark.
- You have purchasing system experience (e.g. Ariba, SAP)
**Total Benefits**
We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance. Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme.
Certain benefits, such as flexible work schedules and parental leave, can be tailored to meet specific individual needs, giving our employees the flexibility to manage their commitments inside and outside of work. We are proud to be rated as a top 100 workplace for working mothers for two years in a row.
**To Be Considered**
**And finally, the small print.
**- The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position._
- Kimberly-Clark is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, natio
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