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.

As the Category Development Manager (CDM), you will assist the Sr. Category Manager in leading the category management process for Baby & Child Care categories at Target. This position will interface directly with the customer as well as cross-functionally within Kimberly-Clark. The CDM will develop and execute category growth strategies by leveraging a variety of databases, tools, and consumer insights. You will provide analysis that leads to actionable assortment, shelving, pricing and merchandising recommendations.

In this role, you will:

• Analyze, manage, and track key business metrics

• Integrate insights and analytics to drive DPSM initiatives

• Develop strong and sustainable retailer partnerships by providing strategic recommendations that promote total Category growth

• Utilize space planning software to build and validate planograms

• Leverage household panel and shopper data to uncover white space opportunities

• Examine historic promotions to recommend efficient programming with strong lifts and positive ROI’s

• Understand customer specific systems to include methodology, reporting, and measures

• Ensure database integrity and report accuracy

About Us

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.

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.

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

• Bachelor’s degree and 3 years or more of relevant CPG experience

• Sales Analysis and/or Category Management experience preferred

• Experience with syndicated data (Nielsen or IRI)

• Analytical and problem-solving capabilities

• Strong time management and organizational skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication

• Travel: up to 20%

Total Benefits

For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com

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 kcchrprod@service-now.com 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.