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.

Are you passionate about shaping brand strategies, optimizing marketing investment, and driving growth through consumer facts and analytics? Do you find joy in leading and inspiring a team of dedicated marketing and business intelligence analysts that collaborate across functions to inform critical business decisions? Then we want you to join us in this exciting opportunity to shape the future of our brand strategies, utilizing your expert analytical skills and leadership abilities to make data-driven decisions. With your expertise in marketing analytics and business intelligence, as an Associate Director, Consumer Analytics of Kimberly-Clark North America (KCNA), you’ll lead a team in diagnosing in-market business issues, optimizing marketing investment, and influencing short and long-term business forecasts and strategies. As an influential strategic business leader, you will build strong partnerships within your designated business unit, including serving as a consumer analytics expert with senior leaders, marketers, finance analysts and other key stakeholders. You will provide leadership and feedback in the development of a range of standards and capabilities supporting the Insights & Analytics (I&A) agenda.

In this role, you will:

Owning the activation of I&A analytics and measurement agenda in alignment with the most important questions for the business in support of top tier growth goals.
Leading individually or with team on critical projects or processes that disproportionately impact the business unit's growth goals. Providing hands on guidance and oversight to team on critical projects and analyses.
Relentlessly driving toward a 360-degree understanding of our consumers across the consumer journey; provoking continuous improvement and motivating adoption of tools to further this effort.
Serving as a subject matter expert for team to design and explain analyses and results using marketing performance and business intelligence tools.
Leading supplier conversation in complex situations.
Leading with a resourceful and fiscally responsible mindset by ensuring previous resources are incorporated into learning plans and analyses. Ensuring approvals and reports are thoroughly documented and published in a timely manner.
Leading the consumer analytics team for a key business unit, establishing clear accountabilities and ways of working within the team and across key stakeholders. Continuously check/adjust to drive clarity and maximize team performance.
Developing hypotheses and decision criteria to meet business objectives; determining appropriate research and analytic methodologies to test hypotheses; ensuring optimal study design and execution to draw relevant inferences and create recommendations to define business opportunities.
Maximizing the consumer analytics investment by ensuring that agendas and resources are aligned to strategic areas for the business and are driving towards value creation.
Incorporating new capabilities and best practices and ensuring consistency across KCNA.
Providing oversight, expertise, and guidance to suppliers in designing complex analytics and measurement projects, interpreting data, writing reports, and communicating actionable recommendations.
Recruiting, interviewing, and hiring team as openings become available. Providing day-to-day coaching and guidance to develop individuals that align to business and individual needs.
Up to 10% travel may be required.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. 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.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You 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.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. 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 (hybrid) work 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.

In one of our professional, roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of experience in consumer analytics and marketing measurement. MBA preferred.
Experience leading teams within a consumer insights and analytics function.
Direct experience in consumer analytics at a Consumer Packed Goods (CPG), retailer, or supplier. This includes driving strategy, explaining business performance, and answering complex business questions with syndicated data sources like NielsenIQ, Circana and/or Numerator. Additionally, this includes direct experience at a CPG, retailer, media agency or supplier in leading advanced analytics solutions like marketing mix models, sales lift analyses, and people-based measurement to optimize marketing investment.
Innovative problem-solver who leverages consumer analytics to support strategic decision-making and challenge the status quo.
Experienced in leading teams that develop strong partnerships with stakeholders and encourage professional growth. Committed to creating a fun and rewarding work environment.
Demonstrated success in driving business results through objective and fact-based analysis, understanding market dynamics, and translating consumer analytics into actionable strategies.

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.

Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.

Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.

Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

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And finally, the fine print….

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, which is why we seek to build a workforce that encompasses 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.

Grade 07: grade level and / or compensation may vary based on location/country

Salary Range: 173,400 – 214,200 USD. At Kimberly-Clark, pay is just one aspect of our total rewards package, which also includes a variety of benefits and opportunities to achieve, thrive and grow. Along with base pay, this position offers eligibility for a target bonus and a comprehensive benefits suite, including our 401(k) and Profit Sharing plan. The anticipated base pay range for this role is provided above for a fully qualified hire. Actual pay will depend on several factors, such as location, role, skills, performance, and experience. Please note that the stated pay range applies to US locations only.

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