Sr. Category Development Manager

Sr. Category Development Manager

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. 

The Sr. Category Development Manager will lead the category management process for their defined categories at Target.  This position will interface directly with the customer as well as cross-functionally within Kimberly-Clark.  The Sr. CDM will develop and execute category growth strategies by leveraging a variety of databases, tools, and consumer insights.  The individual will provide analysis that leads to actionable assortment, shelving, pricing and merchandising recommendations.

In this role, you will:

• Become a subject matter expert in assigned category and provide thought leadership to customer and internal sales team
• Use principles of Category Management to inform recommendations for category and brand growth and leverage information to grow customers category
• Conduct strategic category and channel analyses and reports, incorporating appropriate resources. Filter through several data sources to build strategies that drive superior results
• Perform strategic competitive analyses by category and brand to capture trends, opportunities and challenges for core business areas
• Develop strategic business plans, vision, tactics and strategies for achieving category growth
• Stay current on consumer trends for various retail channels.
• Use knowledge of shopper and consumer to recommend optimal category assortments, flows, adjacencies, cross merch opportunities, etc.
• Provide insight and perspective of the various channel dynamics on assigned categories
• Monitor channel shifting and the associated trends reflected in the marketplace.
• Form perspective on omni-channel purchasing behaviors (e.g. P2P, B&M vs Ecom, site to store, etc.)
• Understand how online purchase behaviors differ from those in-store and how we can capitalize on those differences
• Effectively manage workload and partnerships with key stake holders across multiple customers and internal teams

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 sustainabili