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.This role is part of Kimberly-Clark’s investment in creating new jobs and expanding its capabilities to produce premium that are essential to millions of lives around the world, and right here in São Paulo. It starts with YOU.
· Develop strategies through the strategic sourcing process and develop total cost of ownership models.
· Provide Industry best practices, Innovation and value-added opportunities for positively impacting P&L and making more efficient Professional Services.
· Lead negotiations or drive RFx process for selecting suppliers. Responsible for supplier relationship management for continuing value creation.
· Generate Savings and Working Capital initiatives, leading implementation and reporting. As from internal and external benchmarks, bring innovative ideas to the company, adding value to the processes and being a reliable partner to main stakeholder areas.
· Stakeholder management and build strategic internal partnerships (main stakeholder areas: Facilities, Operations, HR, Legal, Taxes)
· Provide spend visibility for demand management and price trend for fueling business plans.
· More efficient Spend Budgets. Influencing Stakeholders for demand management based on market best practices.
· Align and influence, with Procurement Manager support, global strategies according to Brazil Stakeholders needs and ensuring not violating any local regulation.
· Provide business cost visibility and risk exposure
· Delivering a local and category specific robust 3-year value creation pipeline
· Implement sustainability initiatives aligned to global targets. Sale of waste and look for best disposition alternatives with better environmental impact and costs
· Ensures that negotiations consider the administrative/transactional work for optimizing and minimizing it.
· Maximize administrative process automation (i.e. Coupa Catalogs usage), delivering supplier rationalization and SLA for granting services quality and continuous improvement.
· Ensure best level of communication on the processes lead, building relationship at different organization levels, understanding business requirements and becoming a valuable strategic partner of the business
· Be able to identify issues and with creativity and business knowledge identify opportunities in adversity, proposing solutions and taking calculated risks. Know when to escalate a problem and how to drive its solution.
To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, supply chain or related fields
• Experience in Indirect Procurement
• Negotiation expert and financial knowledge
• Advanced Excel and Power Point
• Knowledge of SAP and Coupa (desirable)
• English (Advanced)
• Spanish (Advanced)
• Pro-active, constantly looking at innovation and ethical
• Strong analytical, communication and storytelling skills
• Curious, resilient and comfortable navigating ambiguity
• Experience working with cross-functional processes, multi-cultural team
Led by Purpose. Driven by You.
Total Benefits
We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.
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.
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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, which is why we seek to build a workforce that encompasses 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 local policies.
This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.
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