YOUR JOB

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.

ABOUT US

Kleenex®. Huggies®. 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.

YOUR KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Input into creation and drive deployment of channel value proposition – demonstrating Kimberly-Clark Professional value to our partners through annual and more regular planning meetings.
• Champion and drive excellence in channel partner marketing across markets.
• Lead strategic evaluation of channel access to key market segments and work alongside Distributor sales team and Distributor IMP to unlock white space by onboarding new channel partners.
• Develop and evolve Commercial Partnership Programme with treatment strategy alongside Distributor sales leaders.
• Lead team in delivering ongoing channel engagement and enablement initiatives such as incentives, Price Lists, Channel Catalogues, Promotions and channel-led trade shows/exhibitions.
• Lead work to capture, collate and feed in local market, portfolio and competitor Insights to category team
• Drive exceptional execution in local markets of innovation launches, owning seller and channel/Key Account engagement, product listings and working with IME on training plans.
• Lead their team to communicate and execute Product Changes and deletions in a timely and efficient way with Channel and End Users customers
• Leads team to monitor performance at country level and drive mitigation plans in local markets
• Accountable for arrangements with local fulfilment houses and other suppliers for samples and marketing materials
• Through team, owns monitoring local websites and raises tickets to correct any issues or implement local initiatives.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU:

• Significant previous Marketing experience in a FMCG or similar environment, with a preference for Trade Marketing in B2B.
• Ability to tell a compelling story leveraging various data points, experience and qualitative team input.
• Ability to effectively communicate views and facilitate communication with multiple stakeholders
• Project Management skills, including ability to create and lead stakeholders through a project
• Understanding of financial and market data and ability to interpret and gain insights from data analysis, as well as use data storytelling to influence decision making.
• Visual management and use of dashboarding for decision making.
• Highly collaborative, with ability to build strong relationships and trust across different functions, levels and cultures.
• Fluent in Italian and English