Associate Director, Strategy Deployment & Business Operations

Associate Director, Strategy Deployment & Business Operations

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. 

As Associate Director, Strategy Deployment & Business Operations, you will lead facilitation of key business operations processes within Kimberly-Clark Professional (KCP) North America with a heavy emphasis on execution, analytics, and performance improvement. This individual will also lead end-to-end coordination and development of KCP North America’s annual and long-range strategic business plan. Additionally, in this role you will lead and support execution of numerous ad hoc strategic initiatives and transformation projects by working with key business leaders throughout the North America business. Work is strongly influenced by the President and CFO of KCP NA as well as NA functional leaders. You’ll report to the Senior Director, Strategy & Commercial Capability and will manage a small team, in addition to managing a broader scope of cross-functional team members depending on the project.  This position is based in Roswell, GA.

In this role, you will:

• Strategic Projects:  Perform analysis and strategic assessment for key Enterprise initiatives, prioritized transformation programs, and workshops as determined by the KCP NA Leadership Team. This individual will provide thought leadership, project support, and act as a knowledge resource in the areas of market insights, commercial analytics, and ABU financial reporting.

• Strategic Planning:  Facilitate the KCP NA planning cycle (annual business plan and three-year business plan) in conjunction with the broader Enterprise timeline and work across KCP NA teams to develop the plan. The plan will be grounded in insights and ultimately inform adjustments to existing strategies and levels of investment/resource allocation based upon new learnings and changes in the competitive environment.

• Annual Objective Setting: Lead annual KCP NA objective setting process to facilitate achievement of business unit goals and alignment across KCP functional teams in conjunction with Enterprise aspiration. Furthermore, this individual will lead work that contributes to business unit prioritization, scorecarding, and tracking of commercial metrics to ensure proper prioritization and progress related to commercial initiatives.

• Business Unit Routines: Work closely with a broad array of internal stakeholders that will include cross-functional teams and the North America Leadership Team to deploy key business operations routines (IBP, S&OP) and monthly / quarterly meetings in alignment with the KCNA enterprise cadence. Additionally, this role will be responsible for supporting development of key ABU-specific content (e.g., summits, townhalls, customer meetings).

• Partnership Products Support: Oversee strategic and financial support for the KCP NA Partnership Products business.

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.

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