Global Supplier Governance & Performance Senior Analyst

Global Supplier Governance & Performance Senior Analyst Job Description Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you: innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.   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.

The Supplier Governance Analyst drives supplier governance, KPI performance, and financial tracking for Global Business Services Real Estate and Facilities Management (GBS REFM).  In this role, you will deliver recurring governance processes, prepare data-driven performance insights, manage action plans, and help identify and implement risk countermeasures, savings, cost avoidance, operational excellence, and process improvements. You will also support supplier migrations, contract lifecycle activities, and continuous improvement while partnering with REFM Global Process Owners, global and regional stakeholders, suppliers, Procurement, Finance, and other teams. It starts with YOU.   Job responsibilities include:  Supplier Governance & Performance Management  Drive recurring supplier governance routines, including monthly reviews, quarterly business reviews, KPI scorecards, action logs, issue escalation, and performance tracking.   Monitor supplier services through disciplined, data-driven performance management across service delivery, financial performance, and savings.   Prepare performance insights and executive-ready summaries for governance forums and stakeholder decisions.   Manage action plans, follow-ups, issue resolution, and performance improvement commitments.   Financial, Contract & Risk Management  Work with contract obligations, service levels, financial baselines, savings glidepaths, budgets, and forecasts.   Support fee-at-risk, service-credit, savings, and cost-avoidance calculations and tracking.   Analyze complex contract, operational, and financial data and validate information used for reporting.   Identify risks and support the development and implementation of practical countermeasures.   Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement  Identify and support operational excellence, process improvement, savings, and cost-avoidance opportunities.   Support supplier migrations, contract lifecycle activities, and continuous improvement initiatives.   Maintain trackers, governance artifacts, performance summaries, and supporting documentation.   Apply a progress-over-perfection mindset while maintaining accountability, quality, and momentum.   Stakeholder & Supplier Collaboration  Partner with REFM Global Process Owners and global and regional stakeholders to support disciplined supplier service delivery.   Coordinate effectively with suppliers, Procurement, Finance, and other internal and external stakeholders.   Communicate complex performance, financial, contract, and operational information clearly across diverse stakeholder levels.   Operate effectively in a global, matrixed environment and across time zones, including flexible working hours when required.   Analytics & Reporting  Use Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, and related tools for data validation, trackers, analysis, performance summaries, and executive-ready reporting.   Translate complex data into clear insights, risks, actions, and decision points.   Ensure reporting is accurate, timely, consistent, and suitable for governance discussions.   To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications: