Senior Director, Corporate Strategy

Senior Director, Corporate Strategy

Job Description

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, million 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.

Kimberly-Clark’s global corporate strategy team has played a key role in solving the company’s largest and most pressing strategic issues for the past 10+ years. The group’s purpose is to lead development and implementation of enterprise-wide strategy while serving as a critical talent pipeline for the company.

The Senior Director, Corporate Strategy will be a key member of the strategy leadership team, reporting to the Vice President, Corporate Strategy. This leader’s primary responsibility will be to develop and execute strategic enterprise initiatives that drive Kimberly-Clark’s growth, profitability, and long-term success. This individual will lead efforts to facilitate and coordinate our business strategy processes along-side our business leaders, to optimize and expand our existing business with a focus on growth.

Role & Responsibilities 

More specifically, the Senior Director, Corporate Strategy will:

Corporate Strategy:

• Work closely with the Chief Business and Transformation Officer, CEO, and senior business leaders in leading the development of the corporate strategy. Additionally, this leader will work with segment and functional leaders to create strategies that drive shareholder value with clear plans for implementation 

• Guide end-to-end strategy development and make adjustments to existing strategies based upon new learning and changes in the competitive environment

• Evaluate the portfolio and make recommendations on changes to the focus and levels of investment/ resource allocation

• Contribute to business growth by identifying and prioritizing potential business opportunities and evaluating potential investments, strategic partnerships, and/or M&A activities

• Orchestrate and drive the deployment of Kimberly-Clark Powering Care Strategy and transformation efforts. Identify and personally lead high-impact enterprise-oriented change 

• Design, orchestrate and lead key executive leadership sessions owned by the Chief Business and Transformation Officer creating impact and connectivity with the enterprise strategies, critical transformation initiatives and other priorities.

Segment and Functional Strategies and Cross-Company Interactions:

• Collaborate with segment leadership to ensure their strategies are aligned with the overall corporate strategy 

• Test insights against Kimberly-Clark’s segment’s strategies and adjust strategies as appropriate

• Embed long-term strategic thinking into ongoing business processes within Kimberly-Clark.

Industry and Competitive Landscape Trend Monitoring:

• Monitor, track, interpret, and share external and competitive trends

• Stay abreast of industry, competitive, and innovation trends that can impact Kimberly-Clark 

• Analyze competitive intelligence from cross-functional, multi-national sources across the company and translate it to meaningful implications and actions

• Coordinate Kimberly-Clark’s Business and Competitive Risk Management efforts

Personal Impact and Communications: 

• Add personal insight, galvanize discussion and debate across the organization on key strategic issues, generating ideas and creative frameworks, and use a combination of facts, judgment, and personal impact to build credibility and influence outcomes. 

• Work jointly with the Chief Business and Transformation Officer and others in making presentations to senior