Senior Manager, Strategy Deployment & Business Operations
Kimberly-Clark

Job Info

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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 Senior Manager, Strategy Deployment & Business Operations, you'll report to the Head of Strategy & Business Operations and lead facilitation of key business operations processes and routines within the Kimberly-Clark Professional North America (NA) business with a heavy emphasis on execution, analytics, and performance improvement. In this role, you will also lead end-to-end coordination and development of Kimberly-Clark Professional NA's long range business plan. Additionally, this role will support implementation of numerous ad hoc strategic initiatives by working with key business leaders throughout the North America business. Work is strongly influenced by the President and CFO of Kimberly-Clark Professional NA as well as NA functional leaders. This is an individual contributor role but may manage a broad scope of cross-functional team members depending on the project. This is a hybrid role based at Kimberly-Clark's Roswell, GA location.

In this role, you will:

• Strategic Planning: Facilitate the Kimberly-Clark Professional NA long range planning cycle (SBP) in conjunction with the broader Enterprise timeline and work across Kimberly-Clark Professional NA teams to develop the plan. The plan will be grounded in insights and ultimately inform adjustments to existing strategies and levels of investment/resource allocation based upon new learnings and changes in the competitive environment.

• Strategic Projects: Provide strategic analytical support for key Enterprise initiatives and prioritized projects and workshops as determined by Kimberly-Clark Professional NA Leadership Team. This individual will provide thought leadership, project support, and act as a knowledge resource in the areas of market insights, commercial analytics, and ABU financial reporting.

• Annual Objective Setting: Lead annual Kimberly-Clark Professional NA objective setting process to facilitate achievement of business unit goals and alignment across functional teams in conjunction with Enterprise aspiration. Furthermore, this individual will lead work that contributes to business unit prioritization processes, score carding, and metrics tracking to ensure proper prioritization and progress related to commercial initiatives.

• NA Leadership Team and Business Unit Routines: Work closely with a broad array of internal stakeholders that will include cross-functional teams and the North America Leadership Team (NALT) to deploy key business operations processes and meetings in alignment with overall NA segment routines. Specifically, this role will be responsible for owning the agenda for NALT meetings, facilitating NALT offsites, supporting material development for key ABU communications (e.g., summits, townhalls, customer meetings), and ensuring Kimberly-Clark Professional NA operating cadence maximizes organizational effectiveness.

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

• 8+ years' experience in consumer or strategy focused role or another equivalent combination of education and experience (i.e. business operations and / or chief of staff roles).

• Experience in management consulting firms and/or CPG industry experience in strategy development, finance, marketing, or other roles with strategic content.

• Effective communicator able to build creditability and be a trusted voice with leadership and key stakeholders on market intelligence, competitive dynamics, and initiatives impacting company performance. Advanced PowerPoint / deck-writing skills; capable of catering a message appropriately to diverse stakeholder audiences.

• Demonstrated ability developing and executing strategic initiatives that result in enterprise-wide transformational change and value creation.

• Proven experience working in a fast-paced setting; enthusiastic about the potential strategic opportunities facing Kimberly-Clark; well-grounded and pragmatic.

• Project Management proficiency with ability to scope projects, deliver results against set expectations, timelines, budgets, etc.

• Analytical expertise with data and ability to communicate data-derived insights clearly and effectively.

• Experience working in the context of a large, complex, global organization, where working across boundaries and leading through influence are keys to success considered a plus.

• Ability to interface, communicate with, and influence multiple functions and leadership levels.

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you'd enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.

Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.

Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.

Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

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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.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.

Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact 866-444-4516 - when prompted for employee ID, say "OTHER CALLER" - or kcchrprod@service-now.com for assistance. You must include the six-digit Job # with your request.

Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.

Kimberly-Clark will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role. The benefits provided will be per the terms of Kimberly-Clark's applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will be decided at Kimberly-Clark's sole discretion.

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