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.
In this role, you’ll lead and contribute to achievement of business and department objectives through coordination and development of sales strategies and tactics with Target, ensuring implementation of established Customer Business Plans. You will provide leadership and work with team members to advance performance, ensuring high level results. And you will be a key member of a high performing team and collaborate with cross-functional leaders.
The Senior Customer Business Partner will be an individual contributor, and the role will be hybrid out of the Minneapolis, MN.

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.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Previous Target or key customer direct customer team selling experiences

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Strategically organize and develop quarterly and annual plans, internally and with Target, to drive results against KPIs of net sales, trade, DMSP, digital acceleration, and forecast accuracy.
• Understand marketplace dynamics, and customer data & strategies.
• Drive results through ongoing customer engagement. Develop and maintain sustainable business relationships with key contacts at Target. Understand their roles in strategy and decision-making processes, supporting cross-functional wiring with Target & K-C team.
• Create respectful environment among team members, motivate peers to achieve results, and create opportunities for development.
• Completely understand financial position when conducting business and operations planning at all times. Facilitate reconciliation on a frequent basis, and in a timely manner. Maintain robust risk & opportunity planning lists.

TO SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL NEED THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 5 years of progressive experience in Sales or Customer Development roles
• Ability to think creatively and strategically, to leverage strong understanding of the consumer & the marketplace to drive strategies and growth in-store, on-line, and in social media.
• Previous success collaborating with sales teams and participating in headquarter customer calls. Experience building customer and cross-functional relationships.
• Strong command of business analysis tools & processes, and ability to continuously improve analytics. Knowledge of Customer Business Planning processes and ability to effectively utilize Trade Planning software.
• Knowledge of Customer Business Planning processes and ability to effectively utilize Trade Planning software.
• Customer & Organizational leadership demonstrated by the ability to positively influence others, including strong communication, judgement & decisions making.
• Business leadership demonstrated by results, strategy development, project & time management. And people leadership demonstrated by strong team building, change management, and relationship building.
• Other Skills: Active listening, adaptability, training and development, interpersonal skills
• Must be able to go into the Minneapolis Sales office
• Must travel to downtown Minneapolis office two days per week