Family Care Transformation - Associate Director

Family Care Transformation - Associate Director

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. 

This role is responsible for defining and driving the portfolio of transformation initiatives within Family Care, ensuring priorities are clear, resources are optimized, and decisions are data-driven. This role requires a highly organized, strategic thinker who can swiftly manage shifting priorities, synthesize complex information, and provide actionable insights. The ideal candidate is a dynamic problem solver with strong analytical capabilities, a proactive mindset, and the ability to coordinate multiple moving parts across the Family Care business.

About You

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.

• Strategy Development, Analysis and Data-Driven Decision Making

  • Aggregate, assess, and synthesize disparate data sources to generate insights that inform strategy development and strategic decision-making.

  • Conduct rapid strategic situation analyses to identify issues, risks, and opportunities within the transformation portfolio.

  • Develop concise, data-backed recommendations to present to leadership and senior stakeholders.

• Cross-Functional Coordination and Stakeholder Engagement

  • Act as a central coordination point across workstreams, ensuring integration and seamless execution.

  • Collaborate with initiative leads, process leads, and transformation teams to align on key priorities.

  • Provide regular updates to executive stakeholders on progress, risks, and mitigation strategies.

• Work Choreography and Execution Oversight

  • Lead individual strategy and transformation workstreams as part of the broader transformation agenda.

  • Manage and coordinate the execution of transformation initiatives, ensuring alignment with program objectives.

  • Choreograph the sequencing of workstreams to maximize efficiency and minimize bottlenecks.

  • Continuously adjust and optimize program timelines and milestones based on evolving business needs.

• Priority Management and Resource Allocation

  • Monitor shifting business needs and adjust program priorities accordingly to ensure high-impact delivery.

  • Assess resource availability and reallocate team members or funding to meet evolving demands.

  • Work closely with initiative leads and functional leaders to balance workloads and remove execution roadblocks.

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

• 7+ years of business experience in strategy consulting, internal strategy roles, marketing, sales or finance with experience in developing and executing strategy.

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related experience. MBA preferred.

• Analytical and Quantitative: Strong analytical and quantitative skills and the ability to independently generate strategic insights.

• Written and Verbal Communication: Excellent communication and presentation skills; capable of tailoring messaging appropriately for a given audience.

• Leadership: Ability to lead in a highly matrixed organization, driving collaboration across businesses and functions.  

• Strong understanding of the P&L and corresponding levers to drive performance.

• Initiative and Motivation: Highly motivated self-starter who is performance driven.

• Project Management: Ability to scope projects, manage teams, deliver results against set expectations, timelines, and budgets, etc.

• Consumer (CPG and Retail) Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of key players, dynamics and trends, key industry analyses and metrics, etc.

• Influence and Stakeholder Management: Ability to manage and influence senior-level stakeholders.

• Scope of Experience: Experienc