Marketing Sector Lead, Adult And Period Care

**Your Job**:
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.

Right now, we have an excellent opportunity for a **Senior Marketing / Divisional Lead** to join the Adult & Period Care team on a 12 month maternity cover contract. Reporting into the Personal Care Marketing Director, you will be a key member of Marketing leadership team, making a strong contribution in developing a high performing Marketing team as well as the culture across the Marketing organisation. This position heads up the Adult & Period Care Sector team responsible for building the growth strategy that delights consumers and drives value for Kimberly-Clark.

You will drive a comprehensive annual planning process, engaging all commercial and finance functions within the business to ensure creation of insights led brand plans, delivered through comprehensive market, competitor, and consumer analysis. This role offers P&L responsibility, team leadership, innovation and a mix of both local creation and adaptation marketing.

Kimberly-Clark is a market leader across Adult & Period care categories in Australia with the Poise, Depend and U by Kotex brands. We are committed to providing innovative products that meet the needs of our consumer - to enable them to continue living their best lives.

In addition:

- Optimise and refine the Australian marketing strategy for the Adult & Period care sector. Drive clarity on brand fundamentals and category growth model across both consumer and B2B channels
- Lead and build talent of the Adult & Period Care marketing teams (3 direct reports, total team size 7)
- Develop and execute annual and 3-year strategic plans for Adult & Period Care to deliver the growth vision for this dynamic sector
- Work with the team to deliver compelling briefs anchored in consumer insight, partner and challenge agencies to deliver strong, compelling media and communication campaigns
- Manage and optimise advertising & promotions budget, shopper marketing and retailer presentations
- Utilise marketing levers that impact P&L performance to deliver balanced results; short-term and long-term

In your role, you'll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

**About Us**:
People have looked to **Kimberly-Clark** brands for more than 150 years and today we're proud to help over a billion people around the world cope, laugh, love and live every day. From the best nappies and baby wipes to the softest tissues, to the best supplies for business, we are constantly searching for new ways to make life better for our consumers, our customers and our planet.

Our leading consumer brands like the Kleenex, Huggies, VIVA, U by Kotex, Poise, Depend brands improve the lives of people around the world.
- Kimberly-Clark proudly leads the way in providing better care for a better world. _

**Led by Purpose. Driven by You.**

**About You**:

- Demonstrated experience at the level of a Head of Marketing, Marketing Director/Associate Marketing Director or Senior Marketing Manager
- Heightened leadership and development skills, with a strength in coaching
- Proven experience brand building and strategic planning
- Advanced understanding of commercial marketing principals
- Exceptional ability to influence key stakeholders
- Knowledge of the Grocery and Pharmacy industries within the ANZ market
- Experience driving end to end NPD/renovation process

You're driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fuelled 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.

**What's on offer**:
Our Kimberly-Clark employees receive a competitive salary and incentives as well as access to a fantastic range of benefits including superannuation, career development opportunities, free health & well-being activities, volunteering leave and much more.

**To Be Considered**:
In the meantime, feel free to browse our website for additional information on our company, brands and culture - Kimberly-Clark Corporation.

**Kimberly Clark is proudly accredited with as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality WGEA**

**Kimberly Clark is proudly ranked by Forbes as 'World's Best