Procurement Energy Senior Buyer

**Location: Kimberly-Clark locations in Europe and the UK, this role offers flexibility of hybrid or remote work arrangements.**

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.

This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated professional who enjoys working autonomously in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, working closely with both internal and external stakeholders to drive strong value delivery and collaborative partnerships.

With a primary focus on EMEA, the Procurement Senior Energy Buyer is responsible for the day-to-day category management, negotiations and contracting for Energy, combined with a strong focus on process improvement, driving best practice and contributing to KC’s sustainability targets in accordance with corporate policies and procedures.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Ensure the K-C requirements for the Energy category are fulfilled with focus on quality, service, and total cost of ownership, meeting the needs of internal business partners, the opportunities presented by the market, and K-C short and long-term requirements.
- Operate as contracts specialist and programs owner as well as support other functions with market data and supplier cost calculations, ensuring Procurement compliance and deployment of Category Strategy goals.
- Manage communications between suppliers and K-C manufacturing locations to ensure business needs are met through adherence of suppliers to service level agreements (SLA’s).
- Work collaboratively with suppliers and stakeholders to build stronger market insights and better understanding of relevant Energy Government Aids to provide business partners with knowledge to make the correct business decisions.
- Provide active support for Energy Sustainability Projects
- Operate with an E2E Supply Chain / Business mindset to ensure service continuity, continuous improvement and maximised value delivery to enhance K-C brand equity and ultimately improve K-C’s level of profitability
- Ensure that internal control requirements are met in an efficient and effective manner
- Develop and maintain expertise on vendor selection, relationships, and negotiation

**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 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, 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 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:

- Bachelor’s degree and/or relevant Procurement experience
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate and build collaborative relationships in a complex, multicultural organisation
- Excellent data analysis skills

**Desirable qualifications and experience**:

- Negotiation skills
- Relevant experience and/or interest in Energy Sustainability and Contracts management would be highly advantageous
- Supply Chain experience
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of end-to-end process thinking

**Languages**

English fluency, other language/s desirable

**Travel**

There are travel expectations with the role as supply and business partners are located across the region. All travel is planned in advance and therefore should not be a barrier for applicants with family/carer commitments.

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