Senior Manager, Enterprise Value Stream Competitive Strategy

Senior Manager, Enterprise Value Stream Competitive Strategy

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 is looking for an ambitious, self-driven and talented individual to drive competitive landscape assessment, benchmarking, and strategic planning to identify opportunities for end-to-end value stream. Reporting to the Director of EVS Competitive Strategy, the incumbent will be responsible for value stream strategic planning process, building global connected data/analytics to identify opportunities and inform one tissue value stream strategy. The Senior Manager is expected to independently partner with the values stream teams (commercial, R&D and supply chain) in competitive strategy development projects across a range of situations, including full value stream strategies for select categories as well as functional specific strategies, playbooks, and plans. Seeking a strategic thinker with strong leadership abilities, collaborative mindset, deep analytical skills, exceptional communication skills, and a passion for driving results.

In this role, you:

Competitive Assessment and Benchmarking:

• Establish the process and routinely update competitive supply chain intelligence research on key parameters, competitor moves and overall value stream for assigned categories and platforms
• Create and maintain competitive profiles for key competitors (financials, footprint, key investments/divestments, etc.)
• Understand drivers of success among competition, key value enablers and comparative metrics – connecting ABU segment/sector market & competitive landscape, drivers & opportunities to inform our strategies & priorities.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative sources of competitive intelligence including conducting expert interviews as needed
• Direct and directly execute data analysis for delivery of strategic projects including financial modeling and insight analysis on large, complex data sets
• Lead external TDC benchmarking efforts to proactively generate competitive insights at a cadenced frequency.
• Connect the dots with sister competitive functions in commercial and R&D organizations for an end-to-end view
• Articulate the value proposition of our competitive strategy and influence resource allocation and investment decisions.

Value Stream Strategic planning:

• Detail advantaged actions and initiatives that can set up value chain for cost efficiency, deliver target cost savings and drive consumer value.
• Translate business / enterprise strategy and objectives to value stream requirements.
• Coordinate with capital teams for sufficiency planning, and ensure strong capital efficiency (improve ROIC)
• Develop strong commercial partnership and deep understanding of customers and consumers.

Value Stream Optimization:

• Champion and facilitate the connected strategy and framework development for Personal Care and Tissue
• Own thought leadership for problem definition, project scoping, analytical approach and work planning
• Support fact base development as part of personal care and tissue value stream assessments

Functional Skills:

• Written and Verbal Communication: Excellent communication and presentation skills, including strong PowerPoint / deck-writing skills; capable of catering a message appropriately for a given audience
• Structured Problem Solving: Brings structure to ambiguous problems and possesses the ability to frame key questions and develop a workplan to answer them.
• Analytical and Quantitative: Strong analytical and quantitative skills and the ability to independently generate strategic insights.
• Financial Analyses: Ability to analyze P&L trends and diagnose issues, articulate financial impact of findings/recommendations to senior leadership
• Data Visualization: Strong technical acumen and proficiency in advanced PowerPoint data visualiz