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.

This role will lead a team of design professionals and champion design as a strategic business tool for the Family Care business driving growth for a portfolio of iconic brands, which includes Scott®, Viva®, Cottonelle®, Kleenex®. The intention is to elevate the role of design and creative to deliver exceptional consumer experiences, seamlessly, across all touchpoints.

The incumbent reports to the Brand Design & Packaging Director and engages directly with Family Care cross-functional leaders in support of Brand business priorities and provides strategic design leadership from creative development to tactical execution, meeting customer and consumer needs, as well as delivering financial results, and optimal business solutions with winning value propositions.

The ideal candidate is both a creative and strategic thinker who has deep empathy for people and has passion for creating purposeful brands and meaningful consumer experiences. Applies strategic, analytical, and design thinking to solve challenging problems across a range of topics. The position requires someone who has a depth of experience leading and developing strategic design/creative initiatives and preferably has CPG experience.

In this role, you will:

• Build design talent, team capabilities, inspire and lead a team of design managers/designers (4 team direct reports).

• Provide leadership to ensure attracting, developing and retaining incredible design talent while fostering an environment which motivates a diverse team to fully use its capabilities in achieving desired business result.

• Build strategic design/creative capabilities with the rapidly changing customer and consumer needs.

• Drive ongoing brand design team engagement with cross functional partners to deliver competitive advantage to Kimberly-Clark while elevating design in the entire consumer experience.

• Demonstrate the power and value of integrated Design solutions/visual design systems for assigned brands across, all sensorial consumer touchpoints, with a direct link to commercial campaigns and market activations.

• Demonstrate the impact of design in the consumer ecosystem.

• Ensures alignment to the global foundational tools/Global Brand Identity guidelines for assigned brands.

• Accountable for brand design strategy development all the way to seamless market execution; (product, physical/digital package, the shelf, merchandising, and commercial components/promise)

• Identify, develop, and deploy external Brand Design capabilities; build design agency/freelancer network rosters to deliver incredible design/creative.

• Enable and empower the team to flow to work dependent on business need, with an agile mindset.

• Collaborate with Kimberly-Clark North America brand design and packaging leaders to drive efficiencies, work differently, foster agile development, and elevate the role of design to deliver exceptional consumer experiences.

• Drive thought leadership in Brand Design; identify and interpret trend, competitive activities and implications, key consumer/customer activities and needs, and emerging technologies and their potential applications.

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, million 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:

• Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in Design or related field

• 10 years management experience with a shown ability to lead, inspire, and develop talent for a team

• Design portfolio that showcases exceptional end-to-end consumer experiences

• Storyteller with outstanding communication skills, especially the ability to influence key stakeholders by bringing data and consumer insights to life to drive better Design decisions and generate breakthrough experiences.

• Proven ability to drive multiple, complex, and highly strategic programs simultaneously

• Business acumen and experience with shoppers, retailers, and customer realities to ensure the brand experiences being developed have commercial viability.

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.

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.

#LI-Hybrid