Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day portfolio support to Sales as the primary point of contact for non-price product questions, portfolio needs, and customer-facing initiatives.
• Develop and maintain sales tools, product information assets, and materials that support portfolio positioning and customer-facing execution.
• Identify growth opportunities and unmet chooser and user needs using internal and external insights, market trends, competitive assessment, and customer feedback to inform portfolio and innovation priorities.
• Support assigned portfolio lifecycle activities, including commercialization execution, renovations, claims and quality management, ongoing performance monitoring, and recommendations for portfolio enhancement.
• Drive assigned innovation projects through the Innovation Management Framework (IMF) process from concept through North America commercialization, ensuring on-time and on-quality execution.
• Work cross-functionally with Marketing, Category, Customer Experience, Sales, R&D, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Planning, and Product Supply to align product attributes, usage profiles, value propositions, claims, forecasts, inventory, and service objectives.
• Maintain complete and accurate product information, claims, regulatory documentation, commercial specifications, forecasting inputs, and supporting tools across relevant business systems.
• Evaluate commercialization and process-improvement outcomes, including effectiveness and return on investment, and apply data-driven learnings to improve future execution.
• Implement standard work and lead continuous improvement initiatives that simplify portfolio management, improve service and execution effectiveness, reduce cycle time, and free capacity for higher-value work.
• Contribute to departmental projects and broader category and brand initiatives. Share learnings and insights to strengthen product management and sales enablement effectiveness.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in brand/category management, marketing, sales, product management, project management, or another business-related role.
• Experience working across functions to execute product, commercialization, portfolio, or business initiatives.
• Demonstrated analytical, communication, presentation, project management, and influence skills.
• Ability to translate business objectives into action plans, maintain execution discipline, and apply data-driven learning.
• Working knowledge of business and commercial principles, financial analysis, portfolio management, integrated business planning, customer value creation, and continuous improvement.

Preferred

• MBA or Master's degree.
• Experience in a B2B environment, with sales or commercial experience preferred.
• Experience with regulated products, including OTC, cosmetic, healthcare, or related categories.
• Experience supporting innovation through a stage-gate or commercialization process and working with product information, quality, claims, forecasting, or inventory systems.

Benefits

• Total Benefits We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful.
• Flex That Works at Kimberly-Clark We believe great work happens when people come together with purpose. That’s why we offer a flexible work model that blends remote work with intentional in-person collaboration — helping you connect, grow, and innovate while maintaining the balance you value.