Marketing Strategic Buyer

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Cottonelle®, Kotex®, Poise® and Depend®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: as a person, you’re a problem-solver – a connector – someone who thrives on creating order from complexity and driving continuous improvement. You see the big picture while mastering the details, ensuring that every product, process, and partnership flows with precision and purpose. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity, efficiency, and collaboration, always working to turn today’s challenges into tomorrow’s success stories. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

About You

In one of our Supply Chain roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. This role is part of Kimberly-Clark’s investment in creating new jobs and expanding its capabilities to produce premium that are essential to millions of lives around the world, and right here in São Paulo. It starts with YOU.

Develop and execute Strategic Sourcing strategies for the Marketing portfolio, with a strong focus on brand execution, consumer promotions, in-store activations, and related services, including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models.

Lead supplier selection processes (RFI / RFP / RFQ) and commercial negotiations, ensuring competitive, efficient, and scalable commercial models aligned with the dynamics of the promotional marketing industry.

Manage relationships with key, driving continuous value creation, innovation, operational excellence, and contract compliance.

Identify, lead, and implement Savings and Working Capital initiatives, with a focus on optimizing execution costs, improving operational efficiency, and increasing supplier productivity.

Act as a strategic procurement partner to Marketing and Trade teams, understanding campaign needs, promotional strategies, incentives, and consumer engagement plans in the Brazilian market.

Provide visibility on spend, cost structures, and market benchmarks (production, execution, content, fees), supporting budgeting, planning, and decision-making processes.

Influence stakeholders to improve promotional spend efficiency, driving scope standardization, supplier productivity, and adoption of best-in-class practices.

Align global procurement strategies with local business needs in Brazil, ensuring flexibility to support dynamic commercial models while maintaining compliance.

Assess and mitigate risks associated with campaign execution, influencer engagement, activations, and materials (operational, contractual, legal, and fiscal risks).

Build and execute a robust mid-term (3-year) value creation pipeline, focused on service model optimization, supplier rationalization, and operational efficiency.

Drive efficient supplier operating models (clear scopes of work, pricing structures, KPIs, and SLAs) to ensure consistency, quality, and predictability in execution.

Ensure that negotiations consider administrative simplification and transactional efficiency, reducing operational burden for business teams.

Build strong relationships across multiple organizational levels, positioning Procurement as a trusted strategic partner for Marketing and Trade.

Proactively identify improvement opportunities

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

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, supply chain or related fields

Proven experience in Indirect Procurement, preferably within Marketing, Trade Marketing, or promotional categories.

Strong experience negotiating execution services, promotions, incentives, influencer campaigns, and in-store materials.

Experience working with cross-functional processes, multi-cultural team

Negotiation expert and financial knowledge

Advanced Excel and Power Point

Knowledge of SAP and Coupa (desirable)

English (Advanced)

Spanish (Advanced)

Pro-active, constantly looking at innovation and ethical

Strong analytical, communication and storytelling skills

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

Total Benefits

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.

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.

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And finally, the fine print….

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.

Employment is subject to verification of local policies.

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

WORKER TYPE

Employee

WORKER SUB-TYPE

Regular

JOB TYPE

Full time