Sr. Manager Strategy & Advanced Analytics

Sr. Manager Strategy & Advanced Analytics

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. 

Kimberly-Clark North America is investing in the growth of our high-performance Advanced Analytics Strategy capability and we are looking for entrepreneurial-minded innovators to join us in our journey.

This role will be a core member of the Advanced Analytics and Data Science Strategy team for North America and will work closely with the Strategy Development and the B2B Professional team to tackle business unit’s largest and most pressing strategic issues that require data and analytics to drive tangible interventions in our go-to-market.

This role provides an expedited way to gain an overall understanding of the company and make meaningful strategic contributions, while simultaneously upskilling with Advanced Analytics and Data Science assignments. This role will join a bench of high potential talent that, within 18-36 months, is capable of either advancing into key commercial operating roles or transition into a Data Science career track. This role will lead a range of strategic projects and be responsible for strategic thinking, analysis and execution activities.

This role offers an excellent opportunity for strategy consultants with a strong analytical inclination to enhance their advanced analytics skills while continuing to execute core strategy development and execution initiatives.

This newly created Strategy and Advanced Analytics Senior Manager role will report to the Sr. Director, Advanced Analytics and Data Science Strategy. The role will be an individual contributor but may indirectly manage teams. When use cases that involve Data Science methodologies is required, a bench of Data Scientists will be available to provide expertise and support.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the development of strategic recommendations on analytics projects associated with business unit strategy in close collaboration with key leaders across the organization

• Maintain, prioritize and deliver a backlog of strategy development and advanced analytics use cases and workstreams supporting executive leadership: Scope and define business value, propose potential approaches, assess feasibility, estimate effort and data requirements

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

• Drive collaborative advanced analytics 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

• Drive process to develop materials and present insights and recommendations to senior leaders using visualizations, and interactive dashboards designed for non-technical audiences

• Lead change management initiatives to support successful implementation of strategies

• Proactively take on additional responsibilities and projects as needed to continuously improve KC’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.

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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 di