Senior Manager, Consumer Insights Front End Innovation - NA Family Care

Senior Manager, Consumer Insights Front End Innovation - NA Family 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. 

We are currently have an opening for a Consumer Insights Sr. Manager of Front End Innovation at our Chicago Commercial Center. This opening spans across our Kleenex, Cottonelle, Scott and Viva brands within our Family Care business. 

  

With your deep expertise in quantitative and qualitative research, behavioral science and design thinking, you'll take the lead in uncovering 360-degree human understanding to inspire growth-minded decisions and foster a data-driven culture. You'll be the driving force behind applying meaningful, best-in-class consumer insights to create breakthrough innovative products and experiences that will make a difference in consumers’ lives. 

  

As an exceptional communicator, you will build strong relationships with stakeholders across all levels of the organization and will be vital player in a team of brand strategists, engineers, and designers.  You will build the talent of others by developing and sharing best practices with both the Insights & Analytics community and broader organization. As a creative and critical thinker with a passion for innovation, you will always be looking for new ways to push the boundaries of what's possible.  

In this role, you will:

• Partner with cross-functional teams to help identify relevant business issues, research objectives and hypotheses to address brand questions and needs.   

• Develop the appropriate learning plans to evaluate hypotheses that can assist in meeting business objectives and explore leading edge methodologies to develop and test hypotheses, draw relevant inferences, and create recommendations to define business opportunities.   

• Synthesize, interpret, and apply information/data to establish facts and developing insights to provide new perspectives on the category, consumers, and innovation pathways.   

• Manage the engagement of marketing research and analytics projects, including external research suppliers, to ensure the research and analytics are executed in an accurate, timely, and cost-efficient manner.   

• Uncover insights in an agile, dynamic business environment to drive iterative innovation process, inclusive of AI-based tools. 

• Lead with the application of behavioral understanding to brand building. Apply sound understanding of current and emerging research methodologies, acting as the functional expert in the application of consumer practices. 

• Demonstrate intense curiosity to learn the business, the consumer, the market, and apply innovation consumer methodologies to strengthen consumer insights. 

• Up to 10% travel may be required. 

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