Job Description

Brand Manager

Your Job

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 your Marketing role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

The Brand Manager is accountable for driving business planning and marketing execution for an iconic Kimberly-Clark brand. You will strive to achieve sustainable organic growth with a clear foundation of consumer insights, brand positioning and innovation, developing marketing plans that result in sales, profit, share and equity gain. As a Brand Manager, you will focus on the consumer and put them at the center of everything you do. You will manage the portfolio autonomously while influencing cross-functional partners in a matrix organization that includes Research & Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Insights & Analytics, and Sales.

In This Role, You will:

• Lead development and execution strategic marketing plans for the brand portfolio

• Thoroughly understand all levers of the P& L, be proactive in identifying marketing line-item opportunities

• Build strong commercial plans to help the business grow and win with the consumer

• Execute development and deployment of consumer-inspired marketing plans across traditional media, digital, retail channels

• Ownership of the local creative development and brand execution

• Briefing and development of creative strategy (portfolio approach, distinctive assets formation)

• Influence senior stakeholders and mobilize cross functional team, generating commitment to achieve project goals

• Consistently deliver against marketing objectives, delivering transformational results

• Building 2-3 year innovation pipeline and GTM trade engagement plan

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 151 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’re driven to 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’re also a university graduate with a degree in Marketing, or a related area, and have at least 3 years of continuous work experience. 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:

• Demonstrated marketing experience in brand management

• High familiarity with brand development planning, innovation, and creative ideation processes

• Experience developing marketing strategy and activation plans to deliver effective personalization

• Strong analytical, decision making, influence, and compelling communication skills

• Demonstrated capability to make tough, informed decisions quickly to keep performance on track

• Entrepreneur can-do attitude, with the ability to find ways to break down growth barriers and navigate and perform in changing circumstances

• Demonstrated positive energy to effectively represent brand internally and externally

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you’ll enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark:

• Competitive salary and incentives: We offer a competitive salary and a range of incentives, including bonus opportunities, and flexible work options.

• Fantastic range of benefits: Our benefits package is second to none, with everything from health & life insurance, dental & vision care, employee assistance program, paid time off, well-being activities, and more.

• A culture of caring: We believe that a happy and healthy workforce is a productive workforce, so we offer a variety of programs and resources to support our employees' well-being.

We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.

To Be Considered

Click the "Apply" button and complete our online application process. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and be in touch if you seem like a great fit for this role.

In the meantime, check out our careers website to learn more about our company and the position. You'll want to be prepared with relevant questions when you move on to the interview stage.

And finally, the fine print…
For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.

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