Strategic Agility Program Manager- Global

Strategic Agility Program Manager
- Global Procurement

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 Strategic Agility Program Manager role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

The Strategic Agility Program Manager is a role in the Procurement Center of Expertise (COE). The agile team is committed to unlocking incremental value and acceleration of value delivery in procurement projects that will be coming out of the Transformation Office pipeline. This is role will involve delivering on high visibility, high ROI projects across categories in collaboration with the agile leader, category leaders and business leaders to deliver value and category improvements. This role will require project management, problem solving / critical thinking skills, financial analysis, understanding of strategic category management (SCM), Negotiation Gold Standard (NGS) and effective stakeholder relationship management. The role will support multiple projects in parallel. This is an individual contributor role, reporting into the Sr. Manager, Procurement Strategic Agility.

**Responsibilities**:
Agile Squad project execution - 80%
- Accelerate value delivery on key sourcing efforts in the Transformation Office pipeline by adding analytics, rigor and horsepower and utilizing a broad set of capabilities in procurement and supply chain
- Drive incremental value in current and future sourcing efforts by using critical thinking and problem solving tools
- Own and track the development and execution of specific agile squad activities
- Collaborate with cross-functional squad members and provide support to leadership team members on agile projects
- Develop strategic sourcing strategies in alignment with squad value improvement/ cost saving goals and broader organizational objectives
- Enable execution of RFI/RFQ/RFP on agile squad sourcing events

**Agile Capability Build - 20%**
- Contribute to development of 'Agile Playbook' for procurement including materials and process guidelines
- Coordinate and facilitate agile related community of practice activities to drive shared learnings across the enterprise
- Help develop agile culture and brand. Implement, and monitor agile related measures to increase enterprise agile maturity and drive agile adoption

**About Us**:
At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best teams committed to driving innovation and growth. We’re founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform—so what can you do with that? There’s no time like the present to make an impact at Kimberly-Clark. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

**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.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree, ideally in Business, Engineering, or other related discipline
- 5 + years of experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing and/or Supply Chain
- Prior experience in areas of Analytics, Strategic Category Management, Negotiations and fundamentals of procurement
- 3+ years of project management experience
- Advanced working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
- Demonstrated record of delivering strong business results

**Hybrid Work Arrangements**: You’re looking to make a difference. When and where it works best for you. And 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 work (hybrid) 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.
- 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 protecte