Project Manager, Marketing Operations

Project Manager, Marketing Operations

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 a Project Manager, Marketing Operations, you will lead the delivery of complex marketing and innovation projects across multiple workstreams. Responsibilities include managing timelines, budgets, and workflows; ensuring connectivity across internal teams and agency partners; and maintaining standardized processes. The focus will be on driving operational excellence and supporting enterprise-level initiatives, including AI pilot programs. This position will also involve developing implementation roadmaps, establishing governance frameworks, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enable seamless execution and strategic impact. This role will be deep in the creative process and candidates must have a strong understanding of the agency landscape. In this role you will work independently, moving fluidly within a fast-paced environment and demonstrate well-developed acumen in project management.  In this role you will:

Campaign Management

• Lead project delivery across multiple workstreams, inclusive of running workflow meetings, owning the project timeline and tracking the marketing budget
• Own project health trackers, tracking progress against key milestones and identifying roadblocks across all workstreams
• Be responsible for team connectivity at the project-level, ensuring a steady flow of communication between Kimberly-Clark groups

Agency Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Serve as primary point of contact for agency partners at the project-level, coordinating timelines and key milestones
• Track agency progress against scope, ensuring all workstreams are delivered to Kimberly-Clark standards of excellence and adhere to aligned scope of work
• In partnership with Procurement, responsible for project-level scoping and budget negotiations with agency partners, utilizing Kimberly-Clark approved benchmarks

Ways of Working Adherence

• Uphold standardized K-C ways of working across projects, ensuring a consistent and repeatable workflow
• Responsible for appropriate project documentation and organization for streamlined collaboration across internal and external groups

Annual Planning Coordination

• Oversee annual planning timeline at the brand-level, working with K-C teams and agency partners to track to key touchpoints and delivering quality presentations

AI Pilot Initiatives

• Coordinate onboarding for AI pilots, aligning legal, tech, and business teams.
• Develop implementation roadmaps, manage resources, and mitigate risks.
• Liaise with AI partners and stakeholders; establish governance for privacy, ethics, and security. · Monitor KPIs and recommend scaling or sunsetting pilots.

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 di