Senior Brand Manager

Senior Brand Manager

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, Baby and Child Care (BCC) reports into the Senior Global Marketing Director BCC. This Senior Brand Manager leads strategy and innovation for the Baby and Child Care portfolio and defines strategy and pipeline for new businesses. He/she will be working with Senior cross-functional and multi-national business teams and influencing and making decisions together with the Regional Sector marketing teams, Global and Regional R&E (research & engineering), and Lead Markets around the world.

In this role, you will:

• Lead key elements of brand strategy, innovation strategy pipeline and consumer facing initiatives for Diapers portfolio globally.
• Lead global priority scaling front end innovation initiatives for Diapers, partnering with cross-functional teams and lead markets.  
• Identify pipeline gaps and scaling opportunities for Innovation across Huggies aligned to Portfolio Vision.
• Co-lead brand strategic initiatives like Brand Architecture and Huggies Portfolio of the future.
• Explore and define new growth opportunities and categories for portfolio expansion options through market development model and action plans.

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 (MBA, or graduate level degree in related field preferred); and 10+ years of experience in supporting a brand in innovation and consumer insights into product ideas (CPG) with entrepreneurial approach and driving new business models
• Globally oriented CPG Marketer with strong strategic business & brand building foundation, commercialization, and innovation skill set; possesses a high level of understanding of the R&E process and organization, project management and a record of driving growth in a matrix organization.  International experience is desirable, but not mandatory.
• Experience managing others and actively support the development of team members across regions to maximize success; adept skills with Stakeholder Management and Strategic Foresight
• Strategic Marketing and Brand Management Skills: The successful candidate will have built, budgeted, and executed both long term strategic and short-term operational marketing plans that have resulted in above average business growth and performance.;have experience in all facets of marketing / brand management (segmentation, positioning, market research and consumer insight development, new product development, pricing and promotions, advertising, and digital marketing)
• Business / Commercial Acumen: While being a marketer at the core, this person will think and act like a general manager; Adept analytical skills, financial acumen, solid commercial grounding and mastery of t