Category Strategy & Trade Marketing Lead

Location: Bryanston (hybrid)

Closing date: end of day Tuesday 2nd December

As a person, you’re a learner – a natural leader – someone who is always taking initiative to make things better and bring others along with you. You live your life in alignment with the highest values of integrity and quality, always ensuring your responsibilities become a long-term success story. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

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

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 role, 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 JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors’ Degree in sales and/or marketing.

• Minimum 7 years’ experience in multichannel and shopper/category understanding (in-depth knowledge required)

• Proven track record of mastery of industry data and enablement of commercial selling teams

• Business Acumen – The ability to understand & apply internal & external business drivers & metrics to achieve desired business results.

• Revenue Growth Management –The ability to identify & activate initiatives that deliver profitable growth, by ensuring the right product range, price & promotional strategy, in the right place for the right consumer & shopper occasion.

• Indispensable Partnership – The ability to bring our value proposition to life by collaborating effectively with our partners, developing mutually beneficial business plans to drive growth.

• Selling with Insights - The ability to sell to & influence our business partners using compelling communication, actionable insights & quantified solutions

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.

South Africa:

As part of your Total Rewards package, you will be entitled to a comprehensive set of benefits. Some of these are listed below:

• Reward and recognition – to attract and retain the best talent we offer competitive pay.  We reward excellence and high performance through annual performance related increases and employee recognition awards.   

• Great support for good health – we value good health, and to support you, you will have various options for medical insurance with a 50% employer contribution and Gap cover.

• Planning for the future – Being a member of the Provident fund will provide you with savings to provide an income after retirement.

• Protection for you and your family in case of illness or injury – for peace of mind you will have Life cover, disability insurance and Funeral benefit.

• Learning and growth – our employees value the opportunities for professional and personal growth that we offer.  A wide range of training is available with Study bursaries for external courses and an opportunity to apply for School fee bursaries for your children

• Employee Wellbeing – our Thrive program covers Physical, Emotional, Mental and Financial wellbeing to help you be at your best, and our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offers professional resources and tools to support you and your family.

• Time off – to help you manage your work life balance and cater for different stages of life, we offer attractive annual leave, and policies to cover maternity, paternity, adoption, and parental leave.

• Other – you will be able to enjoy discounted company products.  Subsidized canteen meals and uniforms are provided at our mill locations.

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 relevant background checks carried out in South Africa.

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