Senior Category Manager - Power Clean

Senior Category Manager - Power Clean

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. 

Wipers is a focus category for Kimberly-Clark Professional (KCP), playing a vital role in the organization’s plans for growth.

In this Senior Category Manager role, you’ll manage the portfolio of wiping solutions that make up our North America Power Clean P&L, which includes the WypAll® brand.

This will be inclusive of identifying product innovation and/or renovation strategies, portfolio management, and commercial activation.

Additionally, you will be responsible for driving category growth and profit improvement programs while maintaining alignment with brand and category strategy as well as translating market insights into actions that bring value to our customers to enable profitable growth. 

In this role, you will:


* Manage the P&L for NA Power Clean Wipers to maximize profitable growth.


* Partner with US & Canada Marketing, Sales, & Supply Chain Teams to develop ongoing product forecasts for new and existing product categories.


* Define pricing plan based on NA pricing strategy, set prices for the US and Canada, and manage price increases for assigned product categories; approve pricing discounts/deals & monitor value equation competitiveness & adjust appropriately to deliver sales/profit targets.


* Build and leverage external market and internal insights that informs commercial execution to create and capture customer value.


* Lead marketing initiatives (Innovation / Renovation / Life Cycle Maximization / Product Changes) in support of driving a profitable P&L.


* Build commercial value proposition for customers (end-user, chooser, distribution & sales).


* Partner with Wipers Commercialization Manager to build and activate commercial sales and marketing plans from launch to revenue realization.


* Partner with Customer Marketing to align Reasons to Believe (RTB’s) for product solutions and lead the development & execution of detailed product commercialization plans.


* Support NA Regulatory Team with market specific information for assigned product categories.


* Partner with R&E Team to manage NA renovation / cost improvement projects from kick-off to execution.


* Partner with Sales Capability to build capability of sales organization in assigned product categories to improve sales closure rates.


* Partner with Channel Marketing & Business Development Teams to define channel marketing plans per market, including launch plans for innovation, renov...