Director, Strategy & Transformation

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®At Kimberly-Clark, it's all here for you - innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.

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.

Kimberly-Clark is seeking a Strategy & Transformation Director to help lead enterprise transformation by translating strategic ambition into focused priorities, value initiatives, disciplined execution plans, and measurable outcomes. This role will help shape and steward the enterprise transformation agenda by partnering with the Chief Operating Officer, Segment Presidents, Global Functional leaders, Corporate Strategy, and initiative owners to clarify what matters most, align leadership attention, and mobilize the organization against the highest-value opportunities.

The Strategy & Transformation Director will play a critical role in operationalizing Kimberly-Clark's enterprise strategy by helping the enterprise transform its path to growth, cost effectiveness, and ways of working. The role is designed for a strategic operator who can bring structure to ambiguity, develop value initiatives with Segment and Functional leaders, build credible business cases and execution plans, and ensure priorities are integrated into the company's operating rhythm so the organization can deliver sustained impact.

In this role, you will work across a complex global matrix environment to help senior leaders shape, prioritize, and execute enterprise transformation priorities. You will partner closely with Segment and Functional leadership teams to identify value opportunities, translate them into initiatives with clear ambition and business cases, provide structured problem solving and analytic support, define milestones and ownership, and mobilize cross-functional teams to move from idea to execution.

You will also help establish the management mechanisms needed to track progress, surface risks, resolve roadblocks, and maintain leadership focus on the priorities most critical to Kimberly-Clark's strategic and transformation ambition. The role requires strong strategic judgment, structured problem solving, executive presence, and the ability to influence outcomes through facts, relationships, and disciplined follow-through.

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.

• Partner with the Chief Operating Officer, Segment Presidents, Global Functional leaders, Corporate Strategy, and senior initiative owners to shape and align on the priorities that are critical to delivering Kimberly-Clark's strategic and transformation ambition.
• Work with Segment and Functional leadership teams to develop value initiatives, clarify the ambition and expected impact, build credible business cases, and mobilize teams against the highest-value opportunities.
• Translate enterprise priorities into a sequenced portfolio of initiatives with clear milestones, owners, governance, decision points, resourcing needs, and cross-functional support required to move from idea to execution.
• Drive leadership discussion and debate on prioritization, trade-offs, strategic…