Global Brand Manager

Global Brand Manager

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 Brand Manager role, you'll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

The Global Brand Manager is a strategic brand building leader that will be responsible for developing the product innovation priorities that deliver on the Global Brand Strategies, Global Brand Profile, and Brand Architecture with a primary focus on the Kleenex brand benefit platforms.

In this role you will develop cohesive and consumer-inspired innovation plans to deliver on financial sector growth goals by working with cross-functional and multi-national business teams. Efforts will include global business analysis, deep consumer understanding and insight generation, and strategic & creative choices in order drive the brand's innovation pipeline.

Responsibilities:

• Create innovation pipeline & claims pathways that drive 3 to10 year growth strategies and manage the brand's consumer led global
• Leverage Design Thinking tools to provide structure with agility to the global innovation process while uncovering creative ways at solving consumers unmet needs (Understand, Envision and Prototype)
• Represent the global Family Care sector as the key point of contact for innovation and product development touchpoints
• Partners with Consumer Insights and Analytics team to lead process of deepening our consumer understanding, category relevant trends, and identify unmet needs. Deep understanding of developing consumer relevant winning concepts and testing
• Capturing consumer insights, translating those insights into value, and commercializing to capture that value
• Manages the brand foundational tools such as brand purpose and promise, segmentation, brand architecture and benefit platforms.

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 Family Care team and report to Marketing Director and plays a pivotal role to influence and lead breakthrough projects for one of Kimberly Clarks most iconic global brands.

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, MBA or graduate level degree in related field preferred
• 7 years' experience supporting brand growth through innovation or translating consumer insights into action, ideally within the consumer goods industry
• Experience in all facets of marketing / brand management (segmentation, positioning, market research and consumer insight development, new product development, pricing, and promotions, advertising, and digital marketing).
• Proven experience building, budgeting, and executing both long term strategic and short-term operational marketing plans that have resulted in above average business growth and performance

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. The benefits provided will be per the terms of K-C's applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will decided in K-C's sole discretion.

Primary Location
USA-TX-Dallas

Additional Locations
USA-GA-Atlanta-Roswell, USA-IL-Chicago

Worker Type
Employee

Worker Sub-Type
Regular

Time Type
Full time