Marketing Operations Leader

Marketing Operations Leader

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. 

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.

The Marketing Operations Leader provides strategic leadership over the development and execution of the integrated marketing planning process within the Baby & Child Care sector for Kimberly-Clark North America.

In this role you’ll collaborate with external & internal agencies (media, creative, PR, etc.) to ensure that agency business models & capabilities effectively service Kimberly-Clark’s operating standards & requirements and ensure that all agencies are collaborating to support a cohesive, channel-agnostic view of consumer-centric planning & execution.

This position also requires collaboration with internal brands and marketing teams to drive the operating model for both annual planning and responsive activation & optimization of brand marketing plans, including the development of key standards, tools, timelines, and best practices.

This position requires broad understanding of marketing processes, common agency deliverables and budget management.

To be successful in this role, the selected candidate will need to have a proven history of building high-functioning, cohesive inter-agency teams, as well as practical experience with integrated execution to enable effective decision making.

Job responsibilities include:


* Manage the sector-level operating rhythm, leading key marketing processes such as annual planning.


* Lead the implementation of new marketing capabilities or processes at the sector level when needed


* Oversee project delivery at the sector level, working in partnership with Project Management


* Manage sector-level internal and external collaboration, ensuring cross-functional teams are brought in at the right points throughout the project life cycle


* Oversee the creative production process in partnership with external resources, ensuring best practices are followed and talent renewals are managed appropriately


* Lead the development of agency scopes of work optimizing staffing models and individual role archetypes.


* Drive cost efficiencies by nego...