GM, Perimenopause

GM, Perimenopause
Job Description
GM, Marketing
Chicago, Illinois
About Us
Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kleenex®. Kotex®. Poise®. Huggies®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You
already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly
Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented
professionals, like you.
At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re
founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to
perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.
What You’ll Do (Role Purpose)
The incumbent is directly responsible for the development and execution on a multi-year strategic plan for one
of our key segments to include stewardship with primary responsibility for the business in North America;
deliver financial targets (net sales, gross profit, operating profit, and cash conversion cycle), while developing
multi-functional organizational capabilities and talent to deliver sustainable results.
The Impact You Can Make
Faster growth is our #1 imperative at K-C, you have the opportunity to make a direct impact on our growth
agenda.
▪ Performance Driven – Measured on their ability to directly increase Market Share through Net Sales,
contributing to K-C’s strategic growth plans.
▪ Purpose Led – Better Care for a Better world means we lead with purpose and are focused on our social
responsibility of impacting even more lives than we do today.
▪ Care for Our People – We win through our people. Successful GM’s leverage the full potential of their
workforce by reaching best in class engagement levels within their respective organizations. Building the next
generation of leaders is a top priority of GMs.
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.
Skills You’ll Demonstrate and Grow
• Amplified Business Acumen: Ability to understand and apply internal and external business drivers and
metrics to achieve desired business results
• Financial Acumen - Applies knowledge of financial metrics to inform decision making to achieve profitable
growth in a regional capacity
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• Applies knowledge of financial metrics to inform decision making to achieve profitable growth in a
regional capacity
• Cross Functional Collaboration – Uses broad regional & enterprise matrix relationships to improve cross
functional collaboration and processes, accountability and results.
• Vision & Strategy for Value Creation: Ability to define and deploy a full potential vision and strategy of
excellence that fosters ongoing value creation.
• Full Potential Vision – Defines a 5+ year full potential vision in in a regional capacity, relevant to changing
circumstances and includes expansion into new area’s (categories, channels, acquisition, geographies) .
• Growth Strategy – Applies different long term growth pillars in a regional capacity that is driven by
consumer centric insights
• Business Plan Development - Provides direction and acts as an enabler in the region of executional
excellence and anticipating changing circumstances and future opportunities to adapt.
• Brand Building: The ability to build purpose-led brands and meaningful consumer connections, centered in
deep understanding of consumers and the digital ecosystem.
• Purpose- led Brand Strategy & Communication – Models a consumer centric culture and creates an enabling
organizational structure and capabilities. Addresses gaps in the organizations ability to meet emerging
consumer needs.
• Innovation Incrementality – Conducts regular innovation pipeline reviews and models principles of design
thinking and UX innovation while Coordinating large geographic innovation needs to scalable solutions,
based on commonality of consumer insights.
• Holistic Portfolio Management – Ability to construct, expand and market an effective and efficient
portfolio in a regional capacity, adapted to consumer segmentation and shopper dynamics,
whilst maximizing the balance of category penetration, category value, KC share and profitability.
Integrates scalable synergies in regional portfolio alignment and expansion.
• Commercial Excellence: The ability to design and deliver commercial & Revenue Growth Management
(RGM) capabilities that maximize profitable and sustainable revenue including programs to consistently
improve pricing, product and package mix, salesforce effectiveness, execution, and customer & distributor
partnerships.
• Integrated Marketing and Commercial Growth Strategy - Translates the consumer growth story into a RGM
based omnichannel commercial and customer strategy, enabled through segmentation and translated into
prioritization and measurable milestones
• Sales & Customer Management - Accelerates customer relations into Joint Business Plans through our
differentiating value: Category Growth Strategies, Sales Routine (F1, Ecompass), and using Strategic
Partnerships (eg Distributors)
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• Go to Market and Executional Strategy - Developing the omnichannel commercial strategy into a segmented
Go to market strategy considering cost-to-serve and opportunities. Driving executional excellence
through perfect store visualization.
• Integrated Supply Chain Performance: Ability to promote the right behaviors and establish the processes
and systems that deliver near- and long-term product availability safely, at defined quality and with most
efficient cost and working capital levels.
• Demand Management – Provides guidance on regional/global capacity utilization based on SBP, and
business case justification for future investment needs and prioritization. Influences global investment
decision making
• Cost Transformation – Champions collaboration across regional functions, shared resource allocation and
capability development to pro-actively pursue value through scalable programs; simplification, improve
customer experience and drive continuous improvement in cost management
• Manufacturing Practices – Modeling, promoting, amplifying and sustaining behaviors around compliant and
safe operating practices and Influences regional manufacturing process improvements to drive
innovation, quality and efficiency improvements.
Location
Chicago, Illinois
Experiences We’re Looking For
Education required/ preferred: Graduate degree (preferred) or undergraduate degree with equivalent work
experience.
Experience:
• Minimum of 10-15 years of business experience with a history of demonstrated strategic experience and
knowledge with business success at an executive/senior management level within a medium to large sized
operation
• P&L management; CPG category development experience
• Brand Management experience; extensive knowledge of the CPG industry as well as North American
markets
• broad cross-functional leadership experience in at least two functions (e.g. sales, marketing, manufacturing,
supply chain, R&E).
Critical Skills/Qualifications:
• Proven skills leading and developing talent.
• Ability to translate complex business problems into a simple, cohesive strategy.
• Effective prioritization, business management, and project management skills.
• Proven abilities in agile leadership/thinking
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• Good understanding of accounting, costs, investment analysis, etc.
• Strong problem solving/analytical ability.
• Keen to understand sustainability issues and then translate them into opportunities for future profitable
growth.
• Able to work in a matrix organization driving collaboration across businesses and functions; major
customers.
• Demonstrated capability in leading and inspiring diverse teams and individuals to work together to
Ways of Working and Leadership Competencies We Value
• Focus on Consumers. We keep the needs of customers and consumers at the center of our work.
Building strong customer relationships and delivering consumer-centric solutions. Seeing ahead to
future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies that delight our consumers.
• Play to Win. We aim high, measure our results, and live our values because winning with integrity
matters. Setting aggressive goals and consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
Pushing past status quo to create new and better ways to solve problems and