Associate Director, Strategy Development - NA

Associate Director, Strategy Development - NA

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional® At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

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. 

Reporting to the Director of Strategy for NA, this role is a leader in both strategy development and strategy execution for KC’s North America business.

The Associate Director is expected to independently partner with business teams in strategy development projects across a range of situations, including full business strategies for select categories as well as functional specific strategies, playbooks, and operating plans. 

About You

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

Job responsibilities include:


* Guide end-to-end strategy development as a partner to business leaders and make adjustments to existing strategies based upon new learning and changes in the competitive environment



* Own thought leadership for business problem definition, project scoping, analytical approach and work-planning



* Direct and directly execute data analysis for delivery of strategic projects including financial modeling and insight analysis on large, complex data sets



* Interpret results from multiple project components and translate these finding into clear and compelling recommendations and solutions.  



* Conduct interviews, lead brainstorming sessions, find critical business information, and help business leaders develop innovative approaches to their business.  



* Add personal insight, galvanize discussion and debate across the organization on key strategic issues, generating ideas and creative frameworks, and use a combination of facts, judgment, and personal impact to build credibility and influence outcomes.


* Take ownership for Program Design, Implementation and Change Management on select projects critical to our business strategy.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:


* MBA from top-tier business school highly preferred



* 7+ years of business experience in strategy consulting, related business analysis, functional line experience within strategy, marketing, finance, operations, or sales analytics with a history of demonstrated business success.



* 3+ year...