Senior Associate Brand Manager

About the role

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.

Job responsibilities

• Provide project and/or marketing leadership on key initiatives to help sustainably grow the brand’s marketplace position (e.g. new product launches, pricing initiatives, etc.).
• Execute annual ABP and marketing plans that deliver financial objectives and aligns with brand strategies.
• Actively participate in the execution of brand commercial programs.
• Analyze consumer data, market share and sales reports to understand brand performance, product health and to track progress against marketing initiatives and return on investment analysis for marketing program.
• Create compelling stories and make sound recommendations about the brand, competitive, category, customer or consumer trends to enhance the brand’s equity and market performance.
• Lead translation of brand strategy, consumer/retailer segmentation and marketplace trends into executable DPSM guidance to the organization.
• Develop and implement distribution, packaging, shelving and merchandising strategies and plans.
• Use business acumen in conjunction with marketing competency to influence and lead projects cross-functionally.
• Engage strategic customer teams to collaboratively build growth plans.
• Identify and develop relevant consumer and/or shopper insights.
• Collaborate across categories, to identify and proactively drive efficient brand building.
• Actively conduct both basic and in-depth analysis to identify problems, find trends, develop hypothesis, and drive the organization towards decisions to strengthen the brand’s plan.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Marketing/Business related field.
• 3+ years previous business experience.
• Previous marketing internship or full-time experience at a Fortune 500 CPG company.
• Familiarity with brand development planning, innovation, and creative ideation processes.
• Experience developing digital marketing strategy and activation plans to deliver effective personalization.
• Strong analytical knowledge with ability to drive to solutions.
• Ability to influence and deliver compelling communication.
• Demonstrated positive energy to effectively represent brand internally and externally.
• Must be self-driven, not deadline driven.
• Experience working with cross-functional groups (e.g. finance, sales, operations, planning).