Associate Director, Product Management Commercial Analytics

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. 

The Associate Director of Product Management leads the K-C North America Commercial Analytics product teams and responsible for shaping the future of our digital product offerings, drive innovation, and deliver business outcomes. 

This strategic leadership position oversees a team of product managers who drive value creation in the realm of data and analytics through understanding the intersection of business objectives and Voice of the Customer, reimagining the status quo, and finding opportunities to do things better. By leading the Product Management team, Associate Director of Product Management plays a key role in aligning stakeholders around the vision and priorities for their analytics product domain and translating Kimberly-Clark’s business objectives into tangible capabilities that enable users to work faster, better, and smarter.

In this role, you will:

Provide leadership in Product Line/Portfolio strategy, including long term vision and direction.

Collaborate with cross functional leadership, ensuring alignment with overall KC and KCNA strategy and goals.

Mentor other product managers and guide their development.

Make critical decisions on priority and trade-offs relating to product features, resources, and budget.

Drive product innovation by identifying new opportunities and research.

Continuously analyze all KCNA digital products’ performance and feedback, ensuring products meets customer needs and business outcomes.

Provides cross-functional leadership, most notably between engineering teams, sales and marketing, and support. A key aspect of this is communicating the product roadmap and keeping the product team and the stakeholders informed of updates.

Collaborates with the Product Owner to leverage stakeholder insights to develop a living and breathing roadmap for the future while advocating for and driving alignment between stakeholders in the development of requirements, acceptance criteria, and solutions.

Understands how KCNA objectives intersect with the needs, pain points, and priorities of the user base of their analytics domain.

Understands what success looks like for different groups in terms of use cases and user experience, as documented with User Personas, Use Cases, and Case Studies

Accountable for stakeholder management at each point of the product lifecycle including requests, adoption, requirements gathering, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

Develops and manages defined communication channel(s) and/or stakeholder groups, proactively seeking to identify potential demand, and drives the creation of the business case

Anticipates changes in customer/user needs, adapt product (with enhancements), and create product retirement and transitioning plans.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s 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, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

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

10+ years relevant industry experience, including prior leadership roles and Product Management experience.

Proven track record of successfully delivering data and analytics products.

Experience with product life cycle management especially with product vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritization.

Experience engaging, influencing, and building strong relationships with stakeholders, including senior executives.

Strong cross-functional leadership, team management, influencing, collaboration, relationship-building, and communication skills

Experience working with teams organized around Agile ways of working.

Excellent strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, including making data-driven decisions to achieve product and business objectives

Preferred (not essential, but desired):

Prior experience leading a team of direct reports.

Prior experience working for a global, highly matrixed, Consumer Packaged Goods company.

Experience conducting stakeholder interviews, market analysis, and other forms of research.

Experiencing identifying goals, metrics, and analytics to measure value at a large scale (e.g., a product, a program)

Familiarity with uncovering and championing high value use cases for data.

Knowledge of data analytics tools and technologies, including experience with data visualization, machine learning, and data warehousing

Familiarity with software development lifecycle and how to work with a Scrum team.

Prior experience using retailer POS data, inventory data, and panel data (e.g., Nielsen, IRI, Numerator, Luminate, 1010, etc.)

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.
 

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.

Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.

Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.

Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.

This role will be a Hybrid role out of Chicago, IL.

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 the careers website.

And finally, the fine print….

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world.  We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.

Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact 866-444-4516 – when prompted for employee ID, say “OTHER CALLER” - or kcchrprod@service-now.com for assistance. You must include the six-digit Job # with your request.

Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.

Kimberly-Clark will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role, the benefits provided will be per the terms of Kimberly-Clark’s applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will be decided at Kimberly-Clark’s sole discretion.

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Primary LocationUSA-IL-Chicago

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Worker TypeEmployee

Worker Sub-TypeRegular

Time TypeFull time