Brand Manager - Kotex

## Brand Manager
- Kotex Apply locations:
Chicago Commercial Center time type:
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July 1, 2026 (5 days left to apply) job requisition :
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Brand Manager
- Kotex##
** 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.
** About 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. Job responsibilities include:

The Brand Manager is accountable for driving business planning and marketing execution for brands within Kimberly-Clark North America, delivering sustainable growth through strong consumer insights, brand strategy, and impactful marketing plans that drive sales, profit, share, and equity. This role balances strategic thinking with hands-on execution, operates with high ownership and a consumer-first mindset, and partners closely across a matrixed organization to deliver results.

This role reports to the Senior Brand  this role, you will:
* Understand and actively manage all relevant levers of the P&L, proactively identifying marketing-driven growth opportunities
* Build strong commercial and marketing plans that help grow category value and win with consumers
* Lead development and execution of consumer-inspired marketing initiatives across traditional media, digital, and retail channels
* Leverage digital trends, tools, and technology to create winning marketing strategies that resonate with consumers in modern channels
* Translate data and facts into clear, inspiring insights and recommendations
* Integrate key marketing and growth levers including Innovation, Social, Paid Media, and Strategic Pricing
* Partner effectively across a matrixed organization, including R&E, Supply Chain, Finance, Insights & Analytics, and Sales
* Mobilize and influence cross-functional teams, generating alignment and commitment to shared goals
* Earn full trust and buy in from the leaders, peers, teams, and external partners by always doing the right thing for the company, brand, consumer, and customer
* Consistently deliver against marketing objectives, driving impactful and transformational results
* Anticipate external opportunities and risks, set stretching goals, and make fact-based decisions to keep performance on track
* Provide work direction, coaching, and development support to Senior Associate Brand Managers and Associate Brand Managers To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
* Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or related field; MBA preferred
* 7+ years of brand management or related marketing experience (CPG experience strongly preferred)
* Strong experience in brand planning, innovation development, and creative ideation processes
* Demonstrated experience developing and activating digital marketing strategies
* Proven ability to influence without authority and lead effectively in a matrixed organization
* Strong analytical skills with the ability to make sound, timely decisions
* Compelling communication and storytelling capabilities
* Demonstrated ability to build positive, winning team cultures and develop talent
* Entrepreneurial, “can-do” mindset with comfort navigating ambiguity and change
* Positive energy and professionalism representing the brand internally and externally
* Prior experience providing coaching, mentoring, or people leadership
** Led by Purpose. Driven by You.
**** Total Benefits
** We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and…