Global Innovation Director - Baby & Child Care

Global Innovation Director - Baby & Child Care

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. 

The Director Global Innovation Creates winning strategies and strengthens innovation platforms by leading cross-segment, high-complexity FEI and Core innovation projects, driving scale, elevating claims, and defining global Innovation standards 

In this role, you will:


* Enable sustainable delivery of business objectives, including net sales, operating profit, gross margin, and market share, driving more than half of future growth through innovation 


* Defines Sector strategy to unlock new revenue streams and shape categories 


* Leads select pre-FEI innovations to PI and participates in select global FEI projects from PI to BFE (cross-segment, high complexity) 


* Provides input on priority demand spaces, portfolio role and business needs 


* Ensures global pipeline sufficiency and cross-fertilizes ideas for faster adoption 


* Measures portfolio brand health, effectiveness, sufficiency, and highlight gaps  


* Develop 5-year holistic innovation funnel across the entire consumer experience (product, packaging and promise) that consistently delivers the brand promise, meets SBP targets and drives a sufficient FEI pipeline 


* Lead portfolio technology mapping and cascade strategy, including business case ownership of big technical bets 


* Champion a holistic innovation system that puts consumer needs at the center, leads with insights, winning concepts, claims, business models, and excellent execution that delivers the SBP 


* Deliver innovation plans that win with top customers, drive growth in key channels and deliver go-to-market strategies and plans to maximize presence in market (includes category management, shelving and assortment strategies) 


* Leverage knowledge of P&L and collaborate with finance and other partners to bring forward real time recommendations that protect net sales and operating profit goals while solving issues facing the business 


* Lead the thinking on business model innovation including (but not limited to) import/export of winning innovation from K-C enterprise, agile concept and prototyping approaches and resources, and digital test market leadership through established ecommerce channels 

About Us

Huggies®.

Kleenex®.

Cottonelle®.

Scott®.

Kotex®.

Poise®.

Depend®.

Kimberly-Clark Professional®.

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