Director, Strategy Development - NA

Director, Strategy Development - NA

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. 

Reporting to Sr. Director of Strategy and Analytics Transformation, the Director of Strategy Development is a leader of a team in charge of driving the strategy setting process for North America, executing strategic projects across categories and functions, and supporting decision making for the Segment’s Leadership Team. This role is expected to partner independently with business leaders across a range of situations, including functional strategies, playbooks, and operating plans. Additionally, the Director will be responsible for developing and leading a team of Associate Directors, Managers, and Analysts deployed to North America’s most pressing priorities and building strategic and analytic capabilities across the organization.

In this role, you will:

• Provide leadership in the development and execution of North America’s strategy

• Guide end-to-end strategy development as a partner to business leaders and makes adjustments to existing strategies based upon new learning and changes in the competitive environment

  • Own thought leadership for business problem definition, project scoping, analytical approach, and work-planning

  • Direct and directly execute data analysis for delivery of strategic projects including financial modeling and insight analysis on large, complex data sets

  • Interpret results from multiple project components and translate these findings into clear and compelling recommendations and solutions. 

  • Conduct interviews, lead brainstorming sessions, find critical business information, and help business leaders develop innovative approaches to their business. 

  • Add personal insight, galvanize discussion and debate across the organization on key strategic issues, generate ideas and creative frameworks, and use a combination of facts, judgment, and personal impact to build credibility and influence outcomes.

• Take ownership for Program Design, Implementation and Change Management on select projects critical to our business strategy.

• Bring best-in-class capability building vision to lead Strategy Development – from diagnostics, leading indicators, business impacts, and execution considerations

• Manage and inspire a high-performing team of capability builders, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and professional development

• Collaborate closely with brand and functional teams to perform analysis, build analytical capabilities, and enable effective decision-making, including:

  • Long-term trend analysis

  • Support of leadership engagements

  • Analysis of business performance

  • Competitive Intelligence analyses

  • Ad-hoc P&L, ROIs, & DPSM analytics

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.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safe