Senior Customer Business Partner

Senior Customer Business Partner Job Description

** Candidate must be located within 2 hours driving distance of Grand Rapids, MI or Chicago, IL **

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 this role, you’re responsible for the development and execution of the joint business plan for Kimberly-Clark’s Meijer business. Delivery of the JBP is in conjunction with category, finance, shopper marketing, digital as well as other key K-C capabilities working in step with Meijer’s buyer and leadership team. You'll maintain relationships and for the implementation of K-C brand strategies and tactics with the customer.

Critical in this role, is to comprehend overall corporate, sales, trade, marketing and general business objectives to ensure contribution, trade management, volume and growth profit objectives are met.

• Lead the total team to work with the one voice mind set (we win together:
  Category Management, Account Management, Shopper Marketing, Shopper Insights, Finance, Digital Engagement and Sales) to develop and execute an Omni-channel JBP that delivers our financial goals and metrics (JBP & K-C targets)
• Drive the development and execution of best in-class DPSM (distribution, pricing, shelving, merchandising) programs that support category and K-C growth strategies
• Develop and deliver insights and plans that successfully execute national plans to deliver share growth
• Track progress of key objectives through an analysis of business performance and develop corrective actions to close gaps to JBP goals
• Identify areas where the team can streamline and simplify to focus on the highest value activities
• Seek out opportunities to deliver on strategic priorities for the future (Line Review, JBP, Innovation Summits etc.)

• Bachelor’s degree
• 4+ years of progressive exempt status experience in sales, business, customer management, and customer development
• Proficient in customer, category and trade management
• Preferred: CPG industry experience and K-C customer/retailer account/s experience, ideally working with Meijer as your customer
• Proven record of exceeding sales objectives
• Knowledge of forecasting, supply and demand experience, and shelf reset experience
• Solid skills in Excel & Power Point
• Experience in Sales, building excellent relationships, excellent oral, verbal and written communication skills, results and strategy orientation, business intuition, ethical judgement and decision making, business management and planning, methodical, creative problem-solver, building solid relationships, statistics and quantitative business analysis, change management and team management
• Mentoring, networking, resource management, prioritization and time management, cross-functional relationships, high-caliber customer service problem solving, adaptable, relentless push for improved business results and processes

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