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.
Do you have a consumer-obsessed mindset and passion for transformational innovation? Are you always on the lookout for the next breakthrough opportunity and have a track-record of bringing disruptive innovation to life? We are looking for a creative and proven innovator as a Senior Brand Manager, Brand Growth & Innovation (BG&I) to help define the future of our Adult Care portfolio.
The Senior Brand Manager, BG&I will craft, gain support and lead three-to-five-year strategy & innovation plans. In this role you will assist in directing the work of Brand Growth & Innovation Brand Managers while also leading and influencing cross-functional partners in a matrixed organization. The ideal candidate is a creative and strategic thinker with a passion and proven track record for managing an innovation portfolio to deliver on business growth goals and push the boundaries of what’s possible.

In this role, you will:

• Drive identification, prioritization and fulfilment of unmet/underserved consumer needs
• Articulate insight based, consumer driven innovation and renovation strategy through the lens of market dynamics, consumer, competition, brand and financial goals
• Lead the delivery of a validated, consumer-driven and transformational innovation pipeline
• Ensure innovation sufficiency across a three year time horizon
• Collaborate on development of the Strategic Business Plan, guiding brand priorities over three-to-five-year horizon
• Lead a cross functional team to drive continuous development of innovation, renovation and commercial news pipeline
• Collaborate with Global to drive scale and consistency of front-end innovation development
• Drive business model innovation including (but not limited to) import/export of winning innovation from total enterprise, agile concept and prototyping approaches and resources, and digital test market leadership through established eCommerce channels

Additional Experiences:

• Delivery of business objectives for a brand including net sales, operating profit, gross margin, and market share including knowledge of full P&L levers
• Creation of customer-facing sell-stories, participation in development of Brand Operating Plan and Annual Business Plans
• Understanding of distribution, pricing, shelving and merchandising (DPSM) to influence best in class execution and growth
• Forecasting for innovation initiatives with an understanding of managing risks and opportunities and associated gap closing activities
• Effective management and prioritization of the innovation budget

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.

In this role, you will:

• Drive identification, prioritization and fulfilment of unmet/underserved consumer needs
• Articulate insight based, consumer driven innovation and renovation strategy through the lens of market dynamics, consumer, competition, brand and financial goals
• Lead the delivery of a validated, consumer-driven and transformational innovation pipeline
• Ensure innovation sufficiency across a three year time horizon
• Collaborate on development of the Strategic Business Plan, guiding brand priorities over three-to-five-year horizon
• Lead a cross functional team to drive continuous development of innovation, renovation and commercial news pipeline
• Collaborate with Global to drive scale and consistency of front-end innovation development
• Drive business model innovation including (but not limited to) import/export of winning innovation from total enterprise, agile concept and prototyping approaches and resources, and digital test market leadership through established eCommerce channel

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Business and/or Marketing. A Masters/ MBA with concentration in Marketing Degree preferred.
• At least 10 years’ experience in marketing with brand management (B2B - CPG companies) and experience in the following areas:
• Experience leading innovation strategy and commercialization
• Strong understanding of brand foundational tools, consumer insight identification, segmentation and target development.
• Experience with brand positioning and brand strategy development.
• Concept & Brief writing of both product innovation and renovation and commercial news
• P&L management; development and execution of brand marketing; cross- functional knowledge; direct experience in all various aspects of business including manufacturing, product & technology development and product supply.
• Experience managing at least one direct report
• Proven capability to lead in a matrix organization driving collaboration across businesses and functions.
• Demonstrated capability in leading agency partners in long-term projects.
• Travel 10-20% of the work time