Director, Design Strategy

Director, Design Strategy

Job Description

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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 Design Strategy Director oversees the comprehensive brand identity, design, and packaging experience for our iconic billion-dollar brands within the assigned business unit. This leader ensures the consistent delivery of visual identity across all brands and spearheads breakthrough initiatives in brand design, packaging, and product aesthetics. By driving end-to-end design excellence, the Design Strategy Director plays a pivotal role in enhancing the consumer experience and maintaining the brand’s market-leading position.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the development and implementation of a cohesive design vision for the assigned business unit, ensuring alignment with strategic business goals and enhancing the total consumer experience.

• Implement the design vision across all consumer touchpoints, including product development, marketing, and packaging, to ensure a consistent and engaging brand experience.

• Oversee the transformation of packaging design from concept to execution, ensuring innovative and high-quality outcomes that elevate the brand.

• Partner with creative and digital teams to maintain a consistent design vision across all communication touchpoints, ensuring cohesive and effective brand messaging.

• Cultivate and manage relationships with design agencies, ensuring K-C partners with best-in-class agencies to achieve superior design outcomes.

• Oversee and mentor a team of three packaging and artwork professionals, fostering their development and ensuring high performance in delivering design excellence.

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.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

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:

• 10+ years of design experience

• Minimum of degree level education in Graphic / Brand Design or Industrial Design

• Clear understanding of Design end to end delivery

• Strategic thinker, maintaining clarity of purpose with a focus on the development and implementation of actionable plans

• Highly collaborative, building strong relationships and trust across different functions/levels. 

• Tenacious with a Growth Mind-set to Win Consistently, working in a spirit of partnership for the best overall result for the KC Enterprise

• Proficient in Photoshop / InDesign

• Strong track record of Design industry experience, preferably in Consumer-Packaged Goods

• Excellent team player with strong analytical, influencing and communication skills

• Excellent follow up and organizational skills

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimbe