Senior Brand Manager - Brand and Innovation

Position: Senior Brand Manager - Brand Growth and Innovation
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.

Do you have a consumer-obsessed mindset and passion for transformational innovation? Are you always on the lookout for the next breakthrough opportunity and have a track-record of bringing disruptive innovation to life? We are looking for a creative and proven innovator as a Senior Brand Manager, Brand Growth & Innovation (BG&I) to help define the future of the Kotex Brand in Feminine Care!

The Senior Brand Manager, BG&I will lead brand building initiatives across North America for the Kotex (Feminine Care) portfolio as well as develop, gain support and lead three-to-five year strategy & innovation plans. In this role you will lead Brand Growth & Innovation Brand Manager(s) and consultants while also leading and influencing cross-functional partners in a matrix organization. The ideal candidate is a creative and strategic thinker with a passion and proven track record for managing an innovation portfolio to deliver on business growth goals and push the boundaries of what's possible.

In this role, you will:

• Drive identification, prioritization and fulfilment of unmet/underserved consumer needs.
• Articulate insight based, consumer driven innovation strategy through the lens of the market dynamics, consumer, competition, brand and financial goals.
• Drive the delivery of a validated, consumer-driven and transformational innovation pipeline to bring to market, including leading strategy, concept creation, product design and delivery, channel strategy, pricing, shelving, primary packaging and forecasting.
• Collaborate on development of the Strategic Business Plan, guiding brand priorities over a three-to-five-year horizon.
• Lead a cross functional team to drive continuous development of innovation, renovation and commercial news pipeline.
• Collaborate with the Global team to drive prioritization, scale and consistency of front-end innovation development.
• Drive business model innovation including (but not limited to) import/export of winning innovation from total enterprise, agile concept and prototyping approaches and resources.
• Delivery of business objectives for a brand including net sales, operating profit, gross margin, and market share including knowledge of full P&L levers.

• Consumption and shipment forecasting for brand with an understanding of managing risks and opportunities and associated gap closing activities.
• Effective management and prioritization of innovation priorities and the innovation budget.
• Presenting and influencing the North American Leadership Team.

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:

• Bachelors Degree in Business and/or Marketing. A Masters/ MBA with concentration in Marketing Degree preferred.
• At least 10 years' experience in marketing with brand management (B2B - CPG companies) and experience in the following areas:
  • Experience leading innovation strategy, concept and product development and commercialization
  • Strong understanding of brand foundational tools, consumer insight identification, segmentation and target development.
  • Experience with brand…