Senior Manager, External Affairs & Business Strategy Communications

Senior Manager, External Affairs & Business Strategy Communications

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.

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.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Communications Manager to join our Global Communications & Corporate Affairs team to develop and execute best-in-class communications strategies that strengthen corporate reputation, build stakeholder trust, and drive business goals. This mid-senior level role includes an emphasis on reputation management—including proactive and reactive crisis and issues management—executive communications, integrated communications planning and tactical execution, and top-tier media relations.

The Senior Communications Manager is integral to shaping and articulating our business strategy and narrative, enhancing corporate reputation, and successfully engaging critical external stakeholders.

The successful candidate brings a strong blend of strategic thinking and executional excellence. They have a proven track record of successful enterprise-level external communications and corporate affairs strategies, crisis and issues management, media relations, and executive communications. This includes closely partnering with C-suite and/or VP-level level business leaders on internal/external speaking engagements, top-tier media interviews, and other strategic thought leadership opportunities.

The successful candidate will also have experience measuring the impact of communications campaign to inform future plans.

• Drive crisis/issues preparedness communications planning, execution, and response; work closely with cross-functional partners including Legal, Human Resources, brand teams, and senior leadership to ensure readiness and alignment.

• Oversee global reputation and media monitoring and measurement, including deriving actionable insights from data to support preparedness and proactive corporate brand-building efforts that support business objectives and continuity.

• Develop communications materials for event-driven milestones/issues (reactively and proactively), including tactical communications plans, key messaging, and stakeholder communications/materials (internal and external).

• Maintain trusted and professional relationships with key third-party partners (e.g., industry associations) to support communications and corporate affairs strategies.

• Coordinate cross-functional reviews and approvals of communications plans and effectively project manage the tactical execution of approved plans.

• Provide counsel around key issues to communications partners in the company’s business segments in markets around the world, as needed.

• Develop and maintain up-to-date library of position statements and playbooks that align to the company’s business goals, values and purpose.

• Operate with integrity and handle sensitive matters with professionalism, sound judgement, and care—care for our consumers, customers, partners, communities in which we operate, and employees.

• Develop and execute global media relations strategy for the enterprise, including identifying and developing signature storylines that further strengthen corporate reputation, support business goals and advance purpose.

• Write compelling media pitches for strategic top-tier media, proactively pitch…