Senior Brand Manager - Baby & Child Care

Senior Brand Manager - Baby & Child Care

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 Senior Brand Manager will lead brand building initiatives across the U.S. as well as develop, gain support, and execute strategy & innovation plans. This role will directly lead a team of Brand Managers and Associate Brand Managers while also leading and influencing cross-functional partners in a matrix organization to include R&E, Supply Chain, Finance, Insights & Analytics, and Sales. Strength in marketing, advertising, and P&L management is required to deliver growth in net sales, dollar share and improved gross margin while maintaining commitment to service across multiple channels. This leader must demonstrate strong team development skills and champion a growth mindset culture.

In this role, you will:

• Earns full trust from the leaders, peers, teams, and customers by always doing the right thing – even when no one is looking

• Puts safety, quality, and compliance first and champions this within the organization and culture

• Demonstrated track record and acumen in identifying, cultivating, and developing talent

• Inspires and motivates the team (across functions) toward a positive future

• Mobilizes a cross functional team across organizational boundaries, generates commitment and raises performance.

• Track record of successfully meeting growth, profit and share goals in a variety of situations using a range of methods

• Aims high and sets a compelling vision of excellence

• Track record and mindset of driving step change improvements in capabilities / performance with urgency

• Skilled at reading a P&L, proactive in identifying P&L issues, translates decisive/countermeasures / actions,

• Sets stretching goals, drives fact-based decisions, anticipates external opportunities and/or threats and acts on them, self solves problems

• Demonstrated ability to build strong consumer brands that grow.  Strong marketing skills including strategic brand plan development, innovation pipeline development and development of consumer-inspired marketing plans executed across traditional media, digital and retail channels.

• Demonstrated experience in leveraging digital trends, tools and technology to build winning marketing plans that resonate with consumers in digital channels.

• Demonstrated ability transitioning facts into inspiring insights.

• Strong customer activation skills across the Distribution, Pricing, Shelving, Merchandising, and eCommerce levers. 

• Integrates all the key marketing levers including Marketing, Innovation, Digital, IME, RGM

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:

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