Senior Category Development Manager - HQ

Senior Category Development Manager - HQ

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 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.

As a Senior Category Development Manager (Sr.

CDM) on the Home Professional business, you’ll drive integration of the KC Home Professional business into the KC North America consumer business.

You’ll forge the future of this business’s success through developing materials and educating employees on the business and associated categories, creating a reporting and insights framework, advising-on and governing data sources to ensure we can measure each category and KC’s category representation, developing ground-up actionable selling materials, and partnering with customer teams to enable best-in-class customer meetings.

The right candidate for this role will be an agile, self-starter, and come with a strong background in using and interpreting data for selling purposes, is highly collaborative, able to lead projects and implement change, is comfortable with senior leadership, able to present to large groups, and brings a strong background of creating effective objective-based written selling materials.

This Sr.

CDM will enable greater sell-thru, distribution, category share gains, and category insights leadership.

The materials developed by this individual will be utilized among the Business Unit, Customer Category and Sales Teams to ensure cohesive messaging and DPSM execution.

This role is on Kimberly Clark’s Family Care Home Professional businesses in the U.S.

and Canada, which includes Scott® Shop Towels and falls into Automotive, Paint, Janitorial Cleaning, and Outdoor retail categories.

In this role you will:

•Assess, develop, and deliver a framework for reporting and analysis of key objectives, trends, and business results for Brick & Mortar and Digital, and work closely with I&A to ensure ground-up alignment

•Discover and integrate data sources, including data governance, to expand Scott® Shop Towels/Home Professional’s business insight

•Direct and perform proactive analysis across a wide variety of category business issues and data sources (e.g.

Circana, Nielsen, customer specific POS platforms, shopper research, scan, panel, loyalty card, omni, assortment tools, industry publications, research, etc.) and make fact-based, actionable recommendations in customer-ready format

•Translate complex metrics and analytics into valuable strategic insights and category stories aimed at driving category growth

•Create business presentations using the analytic funnel and storytelling, includin...