Senior Manager – Competitive Intelligence

Senior Manager – Competitive Intelligence

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. 

In this role, you will:

The Senior Manager - Competitive Intelligence, is a critical leadership role within the Ideal Consumer Experience team, part of the broader Product Steward Team in Global R&E. The individual will be responsible for advancing Kimberly-Clark’s competitive intelligence, benchmarking, and consumer-relevant product insights capabilities to enable informed decision-making in innovation, claims development, design to value strategies, cost optimization, and strategic planning.

The Senior Manager will ensure Intelligence and Competitive Fitness insights are integrated early and consistently across the innovation pipeline, connecting with Innovation Capability Teams (ICTs), the Global Growth Organization (GGO), Value Stream Teams and Global R&E leadership to drive strategic foresight that shape product development, strengthen consumer benefits, and unlock competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Scope:

The Competitive Fitness team has been purpose-driven to meet critical enterprise needs — including understanding the evolving competitive landscape, identifying design to value opportunities, and informing the positioning of Kimberly-Clark brands for long-term success. As the team continues to expand its strategic impact, the Senior Manager will lead efforts to evolve Competitive Fitness into a proactive, globally harmonized capability that translates market signals, product trends, and technical benchmarking into actionable opportunities for product innovation, consumer benefit differentiation, and margin improvement.

This role is central to ensuring Competitive Fitness delivers impact across the broader Product Steward and Ideal Consumer Experience teams and informs decisions within innovation roadmaps, claims strategy, and portfolio planning.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set and lead the Competitive Fitness strategy, ensuring it aligns with enterprise priorities, ICT roadmaps, and product development needs.
• Lead a team of up to ten direct reports.
• Deliver integrated competitive insights by analyzing product performance, material choices, claims strategies, and consumer preferences across the market landscape.
• Use competitive fitness inputs to inform and direct innovation teams toward opportunities for new product and material development, differentiated consumer benefits, and improved value propositions.
• Identify design to value opportunities based on material analysis, design benchmarking, and competitive market trends.
• Partner closely with ICTs, GGO, Marketing, Regulatory, and Legal teams to ensure insights are embedded early in innovation planning and claims development.
• Build and maintain a global competitive intelligence library that captures technical, consumer, and market perspectives.
• Translate complex competitive findings into clear, actionable narratives that influence R&D, marketing, and leadership decision-making.
• Establish globally consistent processes and standards for competitive analysis and benchmarking workstreams.
• Develop the team’s strategic capabilities, business acumen, and influence skills through talent development and coaching.
• Actively contribute to the broader Product Steward Team’s mission of enabling smarter, faster, and stronger innovation outcomes.

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 car