Senior Manager – Competitive Intelligence (Information Technology)

Senior Manager – Competitive Intelligence

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. 

In this role, you will:

The Senior Manager - Competitive Intelligence, is a critical leadership role within the Ideal Consumer Experience team, part of the broader Product Steward Team in Global R&E. The individual will be responsible for advancing Kimberly-Clark's competitive intelligence, benchmarking, and consumer-relevant product insights capabilities to enable informed decision-making in innovation, claims development, design to value strategies, cost optimization, and strategic planning.

The Senior Manager will ensure Intelligence and Competitive Fitness insights are integrated early and consistently across the innovation pipeline, connecting with Innovation Capability Teams (ICTs), the Global Growth Organization (GGO), Value Stream Teams and Global R&E leadership to drive strategic foresight that shape product development, strengthen consumer benefits, and unlock competitive advantage in the marketplace.

Scope:

The Competitive Fitness team has been purpose-driven to meet critical enterprise needs — including understanding the evolving competitive landscape, identifying design to value opportunities, and informing the positioning of Kimberly-Clark brands for long-term success. As the team continues to expand its strategic impact, the Senior Manager will lead efforts to evolve Competitive Fitness into a proactive, globally harmonized capability that translates market signals, product trends, and technical benchmarking into actionable opportunities for product innovation, consumer benefit differentiation, and margin improvement.

This role is central to ensuring Competitive Fitness delivers impact across the broader Product Steward and Ideal Consumer Experience teams and informs decisions within innovation roadmaps, claims strategy, and portfolio planning.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set and lead the Competitive Fitness strategy, ensuring it aligns with enterprise priorities, ICT roadmaps, and product development needs.
• Lead a team of up to ten direct reports.
• Deliver integrated competitive insights by analyzing product performance, material choices, claims strategies, and consumer preferences across the market landscape.
• Use competitive fitness inputs to inform and direct innovation teams toward opportunities for new product and material development, differentiated consumer benefits, and improved value propositions.
• Identify design to value opportunities based on material analysis, design benchmarking, and competitive market trends.
• Partner closely with ICTs, GGO, Marketing, Regulatory, and Legal teams to ensure insights are embedded early in innovation planning and claims development.
• Build and maintain a global competitive intelligence library that captures technical, consumer, and market perspectives.
• Translate complex competitive findings into clear, actionable narratives that influence R&D, marketing, and leadership decision-making.
• Establish globally consistent processes and standards for competitive analysis and benchmarking workstreams.
• Develop the team's strategic capabilities, business acumen, and influence skills through talent development and coaching.
• Actively contribute to the broader Product Steward Team's mission of enabling smarter, faster, and stronger innovation outcomes.

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 roles, 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:

Key Qualifications and Experiences:

• Bachelor's or higher in Consumer Science, Product Development, or a related technical or business discipline.
• 10+ years of experience across personal care products, consumer-packaged goods (CPG), supply chain, or research and development (R&D).
• Proven ability to deliver strategic insights through competitive analysis, product benchmarking, or consumer-led technical evaluation.
• Experience identifying and delivering cost optimization and design to value opportunities grounded in technical insights and market understanding.
• Track record of leading technical teams and influencing cross-functional and senior-level stakeholders across large organizations.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills; ability to simplify complex information into clear business strategies.

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.
 

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.

Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.

Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.

Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.

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 verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.

At Kimberly-Clark, pay is just one aspect of our total rewards package, which also includes a variety of benefits and opportunities to achieve, thrive and grow. Along with base pay, this position offers eligibility for a target bonus and a comprehensive benefits suite, including our 401(k) and Profit-Sharing plan. The anticipated base pay range for this role is provided above for a fully qualified hire. Actual pay will depend on several factors, such as location, role, skills, performance, and experience. Please note that the stated pay range applies to US locations only.

Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.

Kimberly-Clark will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role. The benefits provided will be per the terms of Kimberly-Clark's applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will be decided at Kimberly-Clark's sole discretion.

Salary Range: 173,400 – 214,200 USD

At Kimberly-Clark, pay is just one aspect of our total rewards package, which also includes a variety of benefits and opportunities to achieve, thrive and grow. Along with base pay, this position offers eligibility for a target bonus and a comprehensive benefits suite, including our 401(k) and Profit Sharing plan. The anticipated base pay range for this role is provided above for a fully qualified hire. Actual pay will depend on several factors, such as location, role, skills, performance, and experience. Please note that the stated pay range applies to US locations only.

Primary Location

USA-REMOTE

Additional Locations

Dallas World Headquarters, USA-GA-Atlanta-Roswell, USA-WI-Neenah

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time