Sr Director, Communications & Corporate Affairs

Sr Director, Communications & Corporate Affairs

Job Description

We’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes leaders and teams who care about making a difference. As Sr. Director, Communications and Corporate Affairs, you’ll apply your professional expertise, talent, and drive to shape the future of our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands to help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

Company Overview

Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) and its trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. We are headquartered in Dallas, Texas U.S.A. with approximately 45,000 employees worldwide and operations in 34 countries. Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people’s most essential needs, we create products that help individuals experience more of what’s important to them.

Our portfolio of brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Plenitud, Viva, Softex, Sweety and WypAll, hold the No. 1 or No. 2 share position in 80 countries. Sustainability is at the center of our company and by 2030 we aspire to advance the well-being of one billion people through social programs and reduce our environmental footprint by half. We focus on the areas where we can make the biggest difference - climate, forests, water and plastics.

At Kimberly-Clark, treating individuals with respect is the way we do business and the way we lead our industry and our world. We’re building an organization that looks and thinks like our customers around the world and are searching for talented people with different perspectives and varied backgrounds.

What You’ll Do

The Sr. Director, Communications and Corporate Affairs will play a pivotal role in advancing our enterprise strategy by leading communications for Global Supply Chain, Global Research & Development, the Global Growth Organization, and the North America business. This leader will ensure consistent and compelling storytelling that connects our people and key stakeholders to our priorities, strengthens our reputation, and accelerates performance.

The role also carries an important enterprise leadership responsibility as a member of the North America Leadership Team, helping to shape strategy and culture in our largest market while ensuring alignment with global priorities.

This leader will be instrumental in ensuring our communications function continues to fuel business priorities, build trust across stakeholders, and amplify our enterprise narrative, while bringing a strong North America perspective to enterprise decision-making.

Key Accountabilities

• Design and execute global communications strategies that elevate our reputation, inspire employees, and fuel business performance

• Lead storytelling that connects employees to purpose, strategy, and performance globally and regionally

• Build, lead, and inspire a high-performing team of communications professionals, fostering collaboration, agility, and excellence

• Manage and balance internal communication teams and external agency partners for world-class execution

• Contribute as a member of the North America Leadership Team, shaping business strategy, culture, and transformation in our largest market

• Partner across the global communications function to ensure consistent messaging and leverage best practices across regions and functions

Scope and Impact

• Global Responsibility: Lead strategic communications for Global Supply Chain, Global Research & Development, and the Global Growth Organization

• Regional Leadership: Serve as a member of the North America Leadership Team, advancing business performance and employee engagement in our most important market

• Executive Advisor: Act as a trusted counselor to senior leaders, shaping enterprise storytelling around innovation, sustainability, growth, and transformation

• Enterprise Reputation: Drive initiatives that strengthen reputation with employees, customers, investors, and communities

The Impact You Can Make

Faster growth is our #1 imperative and as a leader at Kimberly-Clark, you have the opportunity to make a direct impact on our growth agenda.

• Purpose Led – Better Care for a Better world means we lead with purpose and are focused on our social responsibility of impacting even more lives than we do today.

• Performance Driven – Leaders are measured on their ability to impact Market Share and Net Sales growth, contributing to K-C’s strategic growth plans.

• Care for Our People – We win through our peop