Senior Category Manager, Rolled Towels

Senior Category Manager, Rolled Towels

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 Senior Category Manager you will manage Kimberly-Clark Professional’s (KCP) North American Kleenex® & Scott® Hard Roll Towel portfolio and P&L inclusive of identifying product innovation and/or renovation strategies, portfolio management, and commercial activation. The Towel portfolio is a high-profile focus category for our business with high growth expectations. You’ll be responsible for driving category growth and profit improvement programs while maintaining alignment with brand & category strategy. In this role you’ll serve as a SME for the category, build and analyze customer and competitive insights, and translate these into actions that bring value to our customers and commercial activations to enable profitable growth.

In this role, you will:

• Manage the P&L for Kimberly-Clark Professional’s NA Hard Roll Towel category to maximize profitable growth
• Lead Portfolio Management marketing initiatives (Innovation/Renovation/Life Cycle Maximization/Product Changes) in support of driving a profitable P&L, inclusive of the development & execution of product commercialization plans
• Build and leverage external market and internal insights that inform commercial execution to create and capture customer value
• In conjunction with RGM, define category pricing strategy for the US and Canadian markets for assigned product categories
• Lead creation of commercial value proposition for new product innovation and aligns Reasons to Believe (RTB’s) for product solutions with Marketing & Sales
• Partner with Dispenser Category team to craft value add dispenser programs to ensure profitable growth and placements of dispensers
• Partner with R&E and Value Stream teams to manage NA renovation / cost improvement projects from kick-off to execution
• Partner with Sales Capability to build capability of sales organization in assigned product categories to improve sales closure rates
• Partner with Channel teams to define sales & marketing plans, including launch plans for innovation, renovation & product changes

 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 safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business-related discipline
• 7+ years of experience in marketing / brand management / sales roles with a demonstrated track record of achievement and growth in leadership behavior
• Deep Financial Acumen – Awareness and understanding of P&L and actions affecting it
• Full Potential Vision – Ability to develop long term vision and translation a tactical action plan with urgency to accomplish it.
• Cross Functional Collaboration – Proven track record of driving positive change across multiple fun