Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy

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.

Kimberly-Clark’s global Corporate Strategy team has played a key role in solving the company’s largest and most pressing strategic issues for the past 10+ years. The group’s purpose is to lead development and implementation of enterprise-wide strategy and develop strategic recommendations on issues at the highest level of the organization, while serving as a talent pipeline for the company.

Scope/Organizational Relationships:

The Senior Manager – Corporate Strategy will report to the Senior Director or Director of Corporate Strategy within the Strategy Office. Work is strongly influenced by the CEO and other C-level executives, global functional and strategic leaders, and business P&L owners. The Strategy Manager is expected to be an individual contributor and may manage projects and resources depending on project scope. While there are not dedicated direct reports associated with this role, the Strategy Manager may manage Corporate Strategy and other K-C team members on various projects depending on project scope.

Major Responsibilities:

The selected strategist will work closely with the Corporate Strategy Sr. Directors, Directors, CSO and other strategy team members in the development of the corporate strategy and executing projects associated with the CEO’s value creation agenda. Additionally, s/he will work with business unit teams (regions) and functions to create strategies at a regional, functional, category, brand and /or country level that drive shareholder value with clear plans for implementation. S/he may also participate in the annual Strategic Business Planning process.

In this role, you will:

• Evaluates data and build financial models and clearly articulate the “so-what” of that information.
• Leverages broad set of resources to bring fact-based, externally guided perspectives, options, or recommendations to business partners.
• Synthesizse data from multiple sources.
• Structures workstreams and analyses to solve some of the firm’s most critical questions.
• Independently leads specific workstreams within projects.
• Creates materials for the Executive Leadership Team and Board meetings.
• Collaborates with project teams to deliver against objectives, in partnership with Corporate Strategy colleagues, business teams, and external partners.
• Summarizes project learnings and recommendations for review with leaders.

The successful candidate will join the Corporate Strategy team and report to the Senior Director, Corporate Strategy.

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.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

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:

Qualifications:

• Experience at a major consulting firm highly desired; strategy consulting or corporate strategy also preferred
• An MBA from top-tier business school is highly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree
• 2+ years of business experience in strategy consulting, or related business analysis, functional line experience within strategy, marketing, finance, operations, or sales analytics with a history of demonstrated business success.
• Understanding of industry trends and best practices, KPIs and standard analyses, and the competitive landscape

Desired Skills:

• Written and Verbal Communication: Proven communication and presentation skills, including exceptional PowerPoint / deck-writing experience; capable of catering a message appropriately for a given audience.
• Analytical and Quantitative: Able to collect, interpret, visualize and analyze a wide variety of information (financial statements and models, market research, etc.) and derive data-driven strategic insights from analyses; fluent in MS Excel.
• Business Acumen: An awareness of what drives profitability and cash flow, a market-focused approach to the business, and an overall knowledge of business and functional interrelationships.
• Initiative and Motivation: Highly motivated self-starter who is performance motivated.
• Structured Problem Solving: Brings structure and creativity to ambiguous problems.

Location: This role will have a hybrid model and can sit out of one of the following office locations: Dallas, TX; Roswell, GA; or Chicago, IL.

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

Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.

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.

Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact 866-444-4516 or [email protected] for assistance. You must include the six digit Job # with your request.

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.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. K-C will provide relocation support for this role.