Director - Executive Communications

Director - Executive Communications

Job Description

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 your Director Executive Communications role, you'll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

You will be responsible for delivering strategic executive communication support to Kimberly Clarks senior executives and leading the development of internal communication strategies that help them connect with, engage, and inform their organizations as well as the broader organization. This could include the development of executive communication strategies, creating plans and communications around our highest enterprise priorities, providing strategic partnership on organizational announcements, drafting and coordinating functional and global employee announcements, town halls and high-profile events as well as serving as a strategic advisor to help our leaders effectively communicate with key stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Leads development of functional communication strategy in alignment to overall enterprise-wide communication strategy
• Leads proactive and reactive global communication strategies for business initiatives
• Creates annual communication strategy and calendar for key executives
• Leads development of messaging frameworks, communications templates and tools to drive alignment with various functional leaders
• Leads measurement approaches to gather feedback and drive continuous improvement
• Oversees strategic executive visibility programs, enabling two-way dialogue between leader, the enterprise and their organization through town halls, vehicles, etc.
• Develops executive-level leadership narratives and thought leadership to be leveraged internally and externally
• Identifies, executes and tracks employee communication opportunities
• Partners with other communicators and business leaders to ensure alignment
• Partners with business partners (e.g., IT, HR, Legal) to streamline communications, training and activities
• Partners with C-suite level leadership on an ongoing basis and acts as leadership's trusted communication advisor
• Builds strong relationships with teams across organization to support overall goals and business initiatives
• Oversees Associate Director of Executive Communications; ensure high-performance and actionable development plans reflecting ongoing feedback and career path discussions

About Us:

At Kimberly-Clark, you'll be part of the best teams committed to driving innovation and growth. We're founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we're always looking for new and better ways to perform-so what can you do with that? There's no time like the present to make an impact at Kimberly-Clark. It's all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

In this role you will join the Communications team and report to the Vice President, Global Communications.

About You:

You're driven to 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.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required, Masters degree preferred
• 10+ years of experience working with a large, global organization in corporate communications, with an emphasis on internal communications and C-level executive communications
• 10+ years of experience in strategic content development (e.g., writing long- and short-term, message frameworks/mapping, speech writing, etc.)
• Experience leading development and execution of strategic meetings, including town halls and other events for large, global audiences
• Demonstrated ability to work with C-level executives and other senior leaders on strategic communications, including executive communications
• Excel at storytelling and have the ability to craft a narrative that ties everything together and leveraging visual communications to develop stand-out content
• Experience in managing teams, including developing high-performing talent

Total Benefits: For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com

Hybrid Work Arrangements: You're looking to make a difference. When and where it works best for you. And 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 work (hybrid) 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.

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

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Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:
K-C will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role

Primary Location
USA-GA-Atlanta-Flexible Location

Additional Locations
USA-IL-Chicago, USA-IL-Spingfield-Flexible Location, USA-TX-Austin-Flexible Location, USA-TX-Dallas

Worker Type
Employee

Worker Sub-Type
Regular

Time Type
Full time