Senior Manager, Strategy - NA

Senior Manager, Strategy - NA

Job Description

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. 

Reporting to the Director of Strategy for KCNA, this role is a leader in both strategy development and strategy execution for KC’s North American consumer business.  The Senior Manager is expected to collaborate with business teams in strategy development projects across a range of situations, including full business strategies for select categories as well as functional specific strategies, playbooks, and operating plans.   The Senior Manager will be an individual contributor but will be expected to collaborate with cross-functional team members on the projects they work on. 

In this role, you will:

• Lead the development of strategic recommendations on projects associated with KCNA’s strategy in close collaboration with key business and initiative leaders across the organization

• Manage multiple strategy development and execution workstreams simultaneously

• Drive collaborative processes with a range of teams to create strategies at a functional, category, and/or brand level that drive value with clear plans for implementation.

• Scope and drive execution of advanced analytics work to distill strategic insights for senior business leaders.  Data sources include but not limited to market data, pricing data, syndicated data such as POS, Annual & Quarterly reports, investment banker analysis, financial data, articles, and other secondary and primary resources.

• Drive process to develop materials and present insights and recommendations to senior leaders

• Lead change management initiatives to support successful implementation of strategies

• Lead analysis and content development for select areas of KCNA strategic business plans

• Proactively take on additional responsibilities and projects as needed to continuously improve KCNA’s performance.

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:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Business, Marketing, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Engineering or a related quantitative field. MBA or advance degree preferred.

• 3+ years of consulting experience with one of the blue-chip strategy consulting firms (Bain, BCG, McKinsey, etc.) or comparable strategy consulting firm / function.

• 5+ years of relevant business experience in a highly analytical business environment, including business analysis, functional line experience within strategy, marketing, finance, operations, or sales analytics with a history of demonstrated business success.

• Industry experience in a consumer-oriented company in strategy development, finance, marketing, or other role with strategic content.

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