Associate Director, IPC Adult Care Brand & Innovation

Associate Director IPC Adult Care Brand & Innovation

Job Description

Your Job

Youre not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because were 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 youll bring your professional expertise talent and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic ground-breaking this role youll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities:

• Lead the sector brand strategy and innovation across ABUs delivering topline growth accretive margins (GM & OP) market share and brand equity for the sector.

• Partner with a cross-functional sector team spanning R&D Marketing Insights & Analytics and Design to develop the segments sector growth agenda.

• Develop end-to-end cohesive and aligned Adult Care segment sector / brand strategies and plans and ensure a robust short-term (e.g. 03 year) innovation pipeline aligned with strategic growth goals.

• Elevate brand story-telling creative digital and content quality to drive richer consumer engagement and ROI improvement.

• Maximize value capture in market through portfolio strategy cost improvement and volume growth.

• Partner with the Segment Leaders and Commercial counterparts to convert sector strategy into in-market execution anchored to the broader segment agenda and supporting delivery of growth and financial targets

About Us

Huggies. Kotex. Poise. Depend. Plenitud. You already know our legendary brandsand so does the rest of the fact millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldnt exist without talented professionals like you.

At Kimberly-Clark youll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation growth and impact. Were founded on 151 years of market leadership and were always looking for new and better ways to perform so theres your open door of opportunity. Its all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability inclusion wellbeing and career development. You love what you do especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark were constantly exploring new ideas on how when and where we can best achieve results.

In one of our professional roles youll focus on winning with consumers and the market while putting safety mutual respect and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role you will need the following qualifications:

Essential Requirements

• Minimum 10-12 years of experience in FMCG Marketing roles in the region and country.

• Brand building experience specifically in consumer insights new product development communication campaign development.

• Global/Regional Innovation experience including FEI (Front-End Innovation) new product development domain expansions.

• Experience in creating and activating marketing models for low penetration categories.

• Led Digital acceleration programs and experienced in digital analytics.

• Strong strategic thinking and skill to influence broad multifunctional team.

• Experience in people management and building high performing teams.

• Past marketing success in Indonesia Korean and/or Australian markets is preferred.

Leadership Competencies / Qualifications

• Strong commercial acumen able to connect brand and innovation strategy to financial outcomes and operate credibly cross-functionally.

• Strategic marketing and brand management expertise with strong commercial and in-market execution capabilities including experience working in/with Korea Indonesia and Australia market leads.

• Deep consumer-led innovation expertise with track record of building category-defining pipelines translating consumer insights and trends to drive growth and brand relevance.

• Strong people and culture leadership in-service of greater market results.

• Operator mindset emphasizing speed agility pragmatism and entrepreneurial thinking.

• Ability to deliver value to markets through cross-functional leadership and execution.

• Cultural sensitivity and market fluency with a track record of building relationships and delivering results across diverse multi-market environments.

Key Success Measures

• Brand: Brand health (brand equity scores consumer sentiment vs benchmarks).

• Financial: Delivery of segment sector financial and market share targets.

• Innovation: Performance against net income and forecasted plan value for innovation projects.

• Regional: Scale sector plans regionally while ensuring strategies are locally relevant and fit to win for each market context.

To Be Considered
Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

In the meantime please check out thecareers website.

No Relocation:

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the roles country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.

Primary Location

Singapore UE Square

Additional Locations

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Required Experience:

Director

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1