Senior Director, Corporate Strategy

About Us

Founded in 1872, Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) is a global Fortune 200 consumer packaged goods (CPG) company with 45,000 employees and annual revenues of $20 billion. Kimberly-Clark (K-C) and its trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for over a billion people in more than 175 countries. Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people’s most essential needs, we create products that help individuals experience more of what’s important to them.

Our portfolio of iconic brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Plenitud, Viva, Softex, Sweety and WypAll, hold the No. 1 or No. 2 share position in 70 countries. Sustainability is at the center of our company and by 2030 we aspire to advance the well-being of one billion people through social programs and reduce our environmental footprint by half. We focus on the areas where we can make the biggest difference – climate, forests, water, and plastics.

After recently celebrating our 150-year anniversary, K-C is in the midst of an exciting transformation from a category-based business to a consumer-led growth platform. Leveraging our purpose-led, performance driven culture, the company continues to drive growth, fueled by category-defining innovation as we live out our purpose of Better Care for a Better World.

At K-C, treating individuals with respect is the way we do business and the way we lead our industry and our world. We’re building an organization that looks and thinks like our customers around the world and searching for talented people with different perspectives and varied backgrounds.

At K-C, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all herefor you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to log on! Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

Position Summary

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 while serving as a critical talent pipeline for the company.

The Senior Director, Corporate Strategy will be a key member of the strategy leadership team. This leader’s primary responsibility will be to develop and execute strategic enterprise initiatives that drive Kimberly-Clark’s growth, profitability, and long-term success. This individual will lead efforts to facilitate and coordinate our business strategy processes along-side our business leaders, to optimize and expand our existing business with a focus on growth.

Role & Responsibilities

More specifically, the Senior Director, Corporate Strategy will:

Corporate Strategy:

• Work closely with the Chief Business and Transformation Officer, CEO, and senior business leaders in leading the development of the corporate strategy. Additionally, this leader will work with segment and functional leaders to create strategies that drive shareholder value with clear plans for implementation 

• Guide end-to-end strategy development and make adjustments to existing strategies based upon new learning and changes in the competitive environment

• Evaluate the portfolio and make recommendations on changes to the focus and levels of investment/ resource allocation

• Contribute to business growth by identifying and prioritizing potential business opportunities and evaluating potential investments, strategic partnerships, and/or M&A activities

• Orchestrate and drive the deployment of Kimberly-Clark Powering Care Strategy and transformation efforts. Identify and personally lead high-impact enterprise-oriented change 

• Design, orchestrate and lead key executive leadership sessions owned by the Chief Business and Transformation Officer creating impact and connectivity with the enterprise strategies, critical transformation initiatives and other priorities.

Segment and Functional Strategies and Cross-Company Interactions:

• Collaborate with segment leadership to ensure their strategies are aligned with the overall corporate strategy 

• Test insights against Kimberly-Clark’s segment’s strategies and adjust strategies as appropriate

• Embed long-term strategic thinking into ongoing business processes within Kimberly-Clark.

Industry and Competitive Landscape Trend Monitoring:

• Monitor, track, interpret, and share external and competitive trends

• Stay abreast of industry, competitive, and innovation trends that can impact Kimberly-Clark 

• Analyze competitive intelligence from cross-functional, multi-national sources across the company and translate it to meaningful implications and actions

• Coordinate Kimberly-Clark’s Business and Competitive Risk Management efforts

Personal Impact and Communications: 

• Add personal insight, galvanize discussion and debate across the organization on key strategic issues, generating ideas and creative frameworks, and use a combination of facts, judgment, and personal impact to build credibility and influence outcomes. 

• Work jointly with the Chief Business and Transformation Officer and others in making presentations to senior management, the Board of Directors, and key external constituencies on strategic matters pertaining to corporate strategy. 

Professional Skills & Qualifications

The Senior Director, Corporate Strategy will be/possess:

• 15+ years’ experience in strategy and/or extensive leadership experience in strategic operating roles or corporate functions

• Experience in management consulting firms combined with CPG industry experience in strategy development, finance, marketing, or other roles with strategic content

• Effective communicator able to build creditability and be a trusted voice with leadership and key stakeholders on market intelligence, cutting edge-innovation, competition, and initiatives impacting the CPG industry

• Demonstrated ability developing and executing strategic initiatives that result in enterprise-wide transformational change and value creation

• Proven experience working in a fast-paced setting; enthusiastic about the potential strategic options facing Kimberly-Clark; well-grounded and pragmatic

• Experience working in the context of a large, complex, global organization where working across boundaries and leading through influence are keys to success. Negotiates “wins” across functional and sector boundaries

• Collaborative leader with the ability to inspire, motivate, and leverage the skillsets of a global strategy team

• Motivated and fueled from within to be a strong contributor to the team today and beyond

• Bachelor's Degree and MBA from a first-tier business school preferred

• Personal Characteristics:
  - Strategic Vision/Thought Leadership
  - Communication/Personal Impact
  - Analytical/Logical/Structured Problem solver
  - Business Achievement Drive/Performance Driven
  - Team/Process Leadership

Location

The Senior Director, Corporate Strategy will be based in Dallas, TX.

Kimberly-Clark Ways of Working

• 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 win.

• Move Fast. We turn decisions into action, remove barriers and seek progress over perfection. Stepping up to champion ideas, address difficult issues and say what needs to be said. Tackling challenges with a sense of urgency, seizing new opportunities, and scaling winning solutions.

• Grow our People. We champion inclusion and encourage our people to ideate, innovate and contribute to their growth. Encouraging diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds that enable our winning culture. Placing a high priority on developing self and others to meet career goals and the organization’s goals.

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.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.

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

Kimberly-Clark will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role. The benefits provided will be per the terms of Kimberly-Clark’s applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will be decided at Kimberly-Clark’s sole discretion.

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