Brand Growth and Innovation Leader, Feminine Care

Brand Growth and Innovation Leader, Feminine 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. 

Do you have a consumer-obsessed mindset and passion for transformational innovation? Are you always on the lookout for the next breakthrough opportunity and have a track-record of bringing disruptive innovation to life?  We are looking for a creative and proven innovator as a Brand Growth and Innovation Leader, Feminine Care to help define the future of the Kotex Brand in Feminine Care!

The Brand Growth and Innovation Leader, Feminine Care will lead brand building initiatives across North America for the Kotex portfolio as well as develop, gain support and lead three-to-five year strategy & innovation plans.

In this role you will lead Brand Growth & Innovation Brand Manager(s) and consultants while also leading and influencing cross-functional partners in a matrix organization.

The ideal candidate is a creative and strategic thinker with a passion and proven track record for managing an innovation portfolio to deliver on business growth goals and push the boundaries of what's possible.

In this role, you will:


* Drive identification, prioritization and fulfilment of unmet/underserved consumer needs.


* Articulate insight based, consumer driven innovation strategy through the lens of the market dynamics, consumer, competition, brand and financial goals.


* Drive the delivery of a validated, consumer-driven and transformational innovation pipeline to bring to market, including leading strategy, concept creation, product design and delivery, channel strategy, pricing, shelving, primary packaging and forecasting.


* Collaborate on development of the Strategic Business Plan, guiding brand priorities over a three-to-five-year horizon.


* Lead a cross functional team to drive continuous development of innovation, renovation and commercial news pipeline.


* Collaborate with the Global team to drive prioritization, scale and consistency of front-end innovation development.


* Drive business model innovation including (but not limited to) import/export of winning innovation from total enterprise, agile concept and prototyping approaches and resources.


* Delivery of business objectives for a brand including net sales, operating profit, gross margin, and market share including knowledge of full P&L levers.



* Consumption and shipment forecasting for brand with an understanding of managing risks and opportunities and associated gap closing activities.


* Effective managemen...