Senior Manager

Senior Manager

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. At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.  From our new Hub in Pune, you will own important work that will enable our organization to succeed globally.  

Business Priorities:​

Global Business Services operates in 6 sites with 1000+ employees worldwide and growing.  Business functions within the GBS scope are Accounting-to-Report, Procure-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Treasury, Management Reporting, Real Estate and Facilities Management.  Project management is a signature capability of GBS and will be a key driver to deliver cost savings to the enterprise planning and executing transformation initiatives to enable the business teams to focus on profitably growing our business.

Role Purpose: 

This role is a member of Global GBS STP organization, responsible to provide professional leadership and continuous guidance, mentoring & motivation to the Team Leaders and Analysts to drive global GBS STP strategy in collaboration with other Senior STP leads across the globe. ​

This role is responsible to demonstrate the required operational and functional capacity with the right competencies for quality & ensuring good customer service, identifying business opportunities and monitoring financial activities. ​

Working closely with the all regional GBS STP & Procurement teams, Finance Directors and Global Process Architects(s) on developing of long range of strategies plans and objectives through the identification of strategic issues and opportunity that could influence business growth and stable operations.

Business Priorities and Key Accountabilities:

This role is a member of Global GBS STP organization, responsible to provide professional leadership and continuous guidance, mentoring & motivation to the Team Leaders and Analysts to drive global GBS STP strategy in collaboration with other Senior STP leads across the globe. ​

This role is responsible to demonstrate the required operational and functional capacity with the right competencies for quality & ensuring good customer service, identifying business opportunities and monitoring financial activities. ​

Working closely with the all regional GBS STP & Procurement teams, Finance Directors and Global Process Architects(s) on developing of long range of strategies plans and objectives through the identification of strategic issues and opportunity that could influence business growth and stable operations.

Primary responsibilities: ​

• Collaborate and trusting relationship with the global business Key Stakeholders in order to ensure free flow of ideas and information across the business to drive value creations​

• Play as an analytical role to defines potential business models in order to realize win-win opportunities and avail insightful qualitative analyses.​

• Manage, supervise and support the GBS for operational procurement and accounts payable to ensure timely and accurate delivery of services to supported KC group companies in LATAM, EMEA, APAC and NA regions in accordance with the service management framework as well as global, regional and local procurement processes and guidelines while achieving a high customer satisfaction​

• Drive standardization across regions and globally by focusing on alignment of end-to-end business process areas, system and tools​

• Develop team strategic plan and objectives. Drive future direction of Procurement and Accounts Payable services and provides regular key initiatives status update​

• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, develop solutions and drive their implementation to achieve operational excellence, cost efficiency and business excellence​

• Developing and implementing growth strategies by expansion of Service Catalogue for the coverage of purchase-to-pay activities supported by GBS team​.

• Establish an effective reporting system to enable monitoring of performance of the operational procurement and Accounts Payable teams and provide information to relevant parties.​

• Close collaboration on governance and processes with GBS STP and Global Procurement teams, COE team and cross functional within GBS team.​

• Provide feedback and reinforcement to team members regarding development needs and opportunities and secure resources to support development efforts

Main Purpose of Role:​

• Possess excellent communication skills, superior knowledge of business functions, and strong leadership qualities, enhance GBS image and meet overall growth objectives.​

• Support development and deployment of project management tools, standards and capabilities for the Global and Regional Business Process Management teams and customers​

• Lead and drive the execution of GBS initiatives and transformation agenda in partnership with GBS STP teams, business leaders, and key stakeholders.​

• Lead and drive the team to embrace GBS signature capabilities to deliver for GBS customers.​

• Build sustainable talent pool and expertise in the subject areas while ensuring succession plan is in place within all levels in the team​

• Strong leadership and ability to inspire and move a cross functional development in a united direction and vision.

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.

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

• Build Trust: clear and compelling communication, leveraging on diversity and flexible interpersonal style to build and lead a successful team.​

• Make Decisions: strategic decision making to achieve long range goals and visions; strong planning and organizing skills.​

• Think Customer: Lead customer-focused practices; fueling innovation to deal with problems and opportunities of the organization.​

• Continuous Improvement: build strategic cross–functional relationships; driving change and improvement.​

• Win Consistently: drive personal accountability and set goals for GBS team and business accomplishment.

• Strong planning, organizational, change management and execution skills with ability to prioritize and drive multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously​

• Strong industry knowledge, business acumen and understanding of organizational structure and business core processes with ability to communicate or present to advanced audiences. ​

• Ability to influence direct organization, business and stakeholders towards a common vision or goal​

• Ability to coach and develop others to help others excel in their current or future job responsibilities; planning and supporting the development of individual skills and abilities

Essential Knowledge / Experience​:

• Degree in finance or accounting or related qualification​

• Minimum of 8 to 10 years experience in procurement and handling accounts payable processes​

• Minimum of 7 years team leadership experience​

• Experience in managing migrations and process improvement projects​

• Good command of verbal and written English. Good command of any other Asian language would be an advantage​

• Strong interpersonal skills, management skills, influencing skills and organizational/coordination skills with ability to influence stakeholders towards common goal. ​

• Proactive nature, and strong work ethic

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.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.

Primary Location

Pune Kharadi Hub

Additional Locations

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Experience Level

Senior Level