Category Development Manager

Category Development Manager

Job Description

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 grow the Baby Category at Walmart.

In this role, you’ll help deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

The Category Development Manager (CDM) is responsible for partnering with the Category Management Team Lead.  You’ll work as a Category Advisor to Walmart on the Baby business including Diapers, Wipes and Training Pants.

This position requires interfacing directly with the Walmart Merchant Team, as well as Kimberly-Clark Shopper Engagement team.

You’ll uncover high quality insights and analysis - leading to actionable assortment and merchandising recommendations - in a timely and professional manner that exceeds the stakeholders' needs and expectations.

Success in this position requires unwavering focus on delivering results, ability to thrive in a learning environment, generating innovative solutions, and efficiently focus on details.

In this role, you’re responsible for:


* Conducting strategic category and channel analyses and reports, incorporating appropriate resources.

Utilizing data sources to build strategies that drive superior results.

Perform strategic competitive analyses by category and brand to capture trends, opportunities, and challenges for core business areas


* Analyzing and evaluating shopper trends and consumer purchasing behavior.

Translating complex metrics and analytics into valuable strategic insights for consumer dynamics in supporting sustainable growth


* Developing strategic business plans, vision, tactics and strategies for achieving category growth


* Supporting priority requests for data/information/presentations to drive dynamic growth.

Contribute to creating strategic presentations as a credible Category Management Advisor to Walmart

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 dedicate...