Sr. Category Development Manager

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 will be a critical member of the Amazon platform team, collaborating with Business Development Managers and Brand/Marketing Managers, to drive sales, share and profitability on Amazon. Your unique contributions will require leveraging advanced analytics to optimize current business performance, drive future business planning, and even influence long-term brand strategy. You will collaborate with many different disciplines, including Brand Management, Shopper Insights, IT, Finance and Supply Chain, and will report to Sr. Team Leader, Category Management - Amazon & Costco.

In this role, you will:

• Partner to build long-term / future year plans that lead to sustainable sales growth for Kimberly-Clark and Amazon
• Ability to leverage existing data to recommend business decisions while simultaneously improving capabilities through data management (e.g. audits, hierarchy updates, harmonizing disparate data sets, partnering with IT to develop efficient data strategies and help lead implementation)
• Analyze short-term business performance to identify actionable opportunities to improve business results in-year, including gap closure
• Leverage and reinvent best in class eCom Category Development analytics and capabilities, to drive dynamic Category and Brand growth for K-C on Amazon platform
• Leverage data, insights and facts to formulate a clear and comprehensive story
• Ability to clearly articulate business objectives, highlight key learnings and make sound recommendations
• Be a thought leader in emerging e-Commerce market delivery channels, evolving consumer & shopper behavior and how to best activate to drive growth at Amazon
• Deliver insights-based analysis across the shopper path to purchase including traffic & conversion levers, execution of eCommerce DPSM (e.g. VPC, Share of Search, Ratings & Reviews…) and continuous measurement & feedback on existing plans

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:

• Focus on delivering results, strong leadership skills, especially teamwork and decisiveness
• Expertise in various eCommerce data sources including, but not limited to: Edge by Ascential (One Click Retail), Stackline, Content Analytics, Amazon Brand View Pro, panel data (e.g.Numerator, Nielsen), etc
• Openness to taking calculated risks and trying to achieve objectives in new ways
• Experience with data science, and/or, developing Tableau & Power BI reports
• A Bachelor’s degree and 5 or more years in an insights or data analytics function, CPG and eCommerce experience preferred.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and proven knowledge of PC based applications (Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Ability to prioritize the most important work, and agility to be flexible in order to maximize business impact
• Proven track-record of influencing others across levels and business functions

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.

K-C will support global relocation for the chosen candidate for the role, including assistance to obtain proper work authorization. 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.

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