Global Category Procurement Manager - Professional Services

Global Category Procurement Manager - Professional Services 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.

Kimberly-Clark is looking for an experienced, self-driven and agile individual to be a leader in the Global Professional Services Procurement Team. As a Procurement Category Manager, Professional Services, you will make a difference by developing and executing Global category strategies in the Professional and Management Services space including categories such as Real Estate, Integrated Facilities Management and Travel & Entertainment. This role ensures that Kimberly-Clark’s total volume, spend and supplier relationships are leveraged across segments and integrated for product and service optimization in accordance with our business strategy.

The role owns stakeholder relationships globally as well as across regions and segments to maximize K-C’s total value delivery across a portfolio of $350- $400M of annual category spend.

• Establish and maintain strong category management discipline across Real Estate, Integrated Facilities Management (IFM), and Travel & Expenses (T&E), including clear strategies, sourcing roadmaps, demand management levers, and performance metrics
• Ensure clear line of sight to global strategy, providing seamless alignment with all regional, segment specific and global business requirements.
• Ensure effective category governance, including alignment to Procurement policies, approval frameworks, contract standards, and Kimberly‑Clark Code of Conduct requirements.
• Lead and maintain end‑to‑end visibility of category performance, risks, savings delivery, and commercial obligations, providing transparency to stakeholders and Procurement leadership.
• Drive a structured check‑and‑adjust cadence to review category performance, supplier outcomes, and market changes, ensuring strategies remain relevant and value is sustained over time while providing clear line of sight to the business.
• Identify and proactively manage category‑level risks, including supply continuity, service performance, financial exposure, and reputational risk, escalating as appropriate
• Ability to proactively identify risks and challenges within the category and work with respective leaders to build mitigation plans.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Procurement team members on the Global team and promote best practice development and sharing.
• Demonstrated ability to provide visibility of risk, opportunities and take ownership of all Procurement actions needed to ensure delivery of desired outcomes (commercial terms and risk management).
• Ability to ensure compliance with all Kimberly-Clark Code of Conduct and Procurement rules.

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.

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…