Procurement Specialist, Apac Chemical

**Procurement Specialist, APAC Chemical**

**Your Job**

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 your** Procurement Specialist, APAC Chemical **role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

**Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities**:

- Provide input to regional category strategy mased on market dynamics, supplier landscape, business needs within focus area
- Develops and drives regional execution plan aligned to global category strategy.
- Support execution of category strategic initiatives.
- Coordinate with regional business stakeholders on category needs and strategy (e.g., collect business requirements)
- Manage region-specific supplier relationships, escalate and resolve region-specific supplier continuity issues, etc.
- Support regional execution of category strategic initiatives
- Lead execution of global category strategic initiatives in region
- Manage, track, and report on category cost, sourcing initiatives & results.
- Support ongoing development of the category strategy via collecting input from Regional sourcing leader, conducting analyses on market trends, etc.
- Support in the creation and maintenance of category knowledge and processes to ensure the category strategies are informed, relevant and up to date.
- Monitor supplier performance indicators and initiate supplier reviews as required or in accordance with agreed programs to drive improvement and reduce risk across the regional enterprise.
- Build trust and credibility with suppliers by demonstrating integrity, commitment and results orientation to drive and deliver results.
- Maintain an effective business relationship with all suppliers and stakeholders based on clear, concise group and personal communication.
- Manage APAC regional category reports to enable to delivery to APAC Lead Team timely.
- Support APAC projects other than chemical initiatives.

**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 151 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’re driven to 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’re also a Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, or a related field with 2+ years of experience in P2P or related field. 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 professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution in business, supply chain or related discipline
- 5 - 7 years of experience in Procurement, preferred experience in category management
- Intellectually curious, strong analytical skills
- Business acumen, excellent communication skills (Both written and oral) able to communicate up and across the organization, cross functional collaboration & influencing, project management, analytical, problem solving, Functional and Technical awareness, Manage Vision and Purpose.
- Ability to work independently in a heavily matrixed organization.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of the time

**Travel**:

- As required, up to 20%

**Total Benefits**

Here are just a few of the benefits you’ll enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark:

- ** Competitive salary and incentives**: We offer a competitive salary and a range of incentives, including bonus opportunities and flexible work options.
- ** Fantastic range of benefits**: Our benefits package is second to none, with everyth