Category Strategy & Trade Marketing Lead needed at Kimberly-Clark

• You will be accountable for the Baby & Child Care & Fem Care category strategy and trade executional plan to ensure the achievement of the SSA business KPI’s. The role will manage and be responsible for category insights and analytics, shopper and trade marketing teams.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Owning and developing the total Category Value Drive Strategy / landscape across Personal Care for KC
• Ensure Value Driver Platforms are integrated into the Annual Business plan and SBP planning cycles
• Drive Category captaincy & thought leadership within key Customers
• Owner of the executive insight into the Quarterly Forecasting process:
• Inform the in-year and long-term growth trajectory of the categories with the right monthly tracking and cadence of insights and market understanding
• Owner and accountable for the total commercial team’s enablement of insights in the required format/structure to drive fast effective insights for each function while also continuously focusing on the commercial team’s capability development
• Accountable for the total SA Shopper & Trade Marketing Strategy development in conjunction with the Marketing Managers in the short, medium and long term
• Senior engagement with retailers relevant marketing, shopper and buying teams (customer facing) to develop partnerships that deliver against retailer and KC KPI’s while ensuring the shopper areas are being solved for (Shopper / Omnichannel JBP development)
• Accountable for the creation and deployment of pricing parameters and deal structures for PC categories