Product Manager, 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.
About You
You're driven to 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.
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 Product Manager drives 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. The Product Manager rallies the product team to push K-C North America forward by turning their vision, strategy, and roadmap into reality. By collaborating across functions in the organization, the Product Manager 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:
Owns the vision, strategy, and roadmap for their analytics domain. Defines what success looks like, drives toward it, and tracks it using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)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 updatesCollaborates 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 solutionsUnderstands how KCNA objectives intersect with the needs, pain points, and priorities of the user base of their analytics domainUnderstands what success looks like for different groups in terms of use cases and user experience, as documented with User Personas, Use Cases, and Case StudiesAccountable for stakeholder management at each point of the product lifecycle including requests, adoption, requirements gathering, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Kimberly-Clark has determined the classification of this information to be "Public"Represents the needs of KCNA to Global Product Teams who own tools with overlapping use casesDrives adoption of analytics products through user feedback sessions, training support, and an adoption roadmapDevelops and manages defined communication channel(s) and/or stakeholder groups, proactively seeking to identify potential demand, and drives the creation of the business caseAnticipates 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 teams committed to driving innovation and growth. We're founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we're always looking for new and better ways to perform-so what can you do with that? There's no time like the present to make an impact at Kimberly-Clark.
It's all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.
Led by Purpose. Driven by You.
To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
Required (essential for the job):
3+ years of Product Management experience, or 5+ years of experience in a related fieldPrior experience using retailer POS data, inventory data, and panel data (e.g., Nielsen, IRI, Numerator, Luminate, 1010, etc.)Experience with product life cycle management especially with product vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritizationExperience managing stakeholders, including senior executivesStrong cross-functional leadership, influence, collaboration, relationship-building, and communication skillsDesire and ability to crystallize and diagnose problems through cross-functional collaboration, troubleshooting, and getting your hands dirtyDetail-oriented, process-driven, and highly organized
Preferred (not essential, but desired):
Prior experience working for a global, highly matrixed, Consumer Packaged Goods companyExperience working with teams organized around Agile ways of workingExperience conducting stakeholder interviews, market analysis, and other forms of researchExperiencing 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 dataFamiliarity with database structure (systems and data)Experience solving business problems with technology solutions
Total Benefits
For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com
Hybrid Work Arrangements: You're looking to make a difference. When and where it works best for you. And 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 work (hybrid) 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.
To Be Considered
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And finally, the fine print....
Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.
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.
Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact 866-444-4516 or [email protected] for assistance. You must include the six digit Job # with your request.
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.
K-C will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role. The benefits provided will be per the terms of K-C's applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will decided in K-C's sole discretion.
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Primary Location
USA-IL-Chicago
Additional Locations
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time