Procurement Transport & Warehousing Leader

Procurement Transport & Warehousing Leader

Procurement Transport & Warehousing Leader

Apply locations Brazil - Sao Paulo

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 3 Days Ago

Job requisition id: 877143

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.

Lead Transport & Warehousing Category negotiations for Brazil, with the goal of achieving significant value creation activities, based on year-over-year savings, working capital and productivity improvements in the total cost of ownership of goods and services procured, while granting quality and vendor service levels.

Align, provide price trend visibility and influence business decisions, working closely with key Kimberly-Clark stakeholders.

Become a strategic partner for business decisions for short-, mid- and long-term timeframes. Jointly develop go-to-market strategy and bring outside solutions to better attend to customers, reassess footprints, and challenge distribution models.

In this role, you will:

• Work closely with business and commercial teams to ensure best and efficient ways to reach the customer.
• Develop strategies through the strategic sourcing process, benchmark internally and externally, and develop dynamic total cost of ownership models.
• Lead face-to-face negotiations or drive RFx processes for selecting suppliers. Negotiate Price, Payment Terms, conditions, and KPIs. Apply price adjustment mechanisms. Responsible for supplier relationship management for value creation.
• Provide spend visibility for demand management and price trends for fueling business plans.
• Align and influence, with Procurement Manager support, global/regional strategies according to Brazil Stakeholders' needs and ensure compliance with local regulations.
• Understand main macroeconomic variable movements and correlate different variables for predicting cost fluctuations.
• Ensure that negotiations consider the administrative/transactional work for optimizing and minimizing it.
• Uphold internal and external policies, regulations, and laws.
• Build partnerships with strategic suppliers to bring outside innovation and value creation opportunities.
• Identify, analyze, diagnose, and resolve complex issues. Recommend solutions and calculate risks.

About Us

Huggies. Intimus. Poise. Plenitud. 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, well-being, 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 professional 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:

• University degree required
• Specialization in procurement, supply-chain, Transport & Warehousing is desirable.
• 5 years in a similar role and 10 years of supply chain experience.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint knowledge.
• Negotiation skills and finance knowledge.
• Fluent in Portuguese and English.

Total Benefits

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

Great support for good health with medical and dental.

Pension Plan options to support yourself and your family in the future.

And Additional programs

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.

No Relocation:

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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Primary Location

Sao Paulo Office

Additional Locations

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time