Canada Country Manager, Kimberly-clark Professional - Mississauga, Canada - Kimberly-Clark

Kimberly-Clark

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Mississauga, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Company Overview
Kimberly-Clark (

NYSE:
KMB) and its trusted brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. We are headquartered in Dallas, Texas U.S.A. with approximately 46,000 employees worldwide and operations in 34 countries.

Fueled by ingenuity, creativity, and an understanding of people's most essential needs, we create products that help individuals experience more of what's important to them.

Our portfolio of brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Plenitud, Viva, Softex, Sweety and WypAll, hold the No.

1 or No. 2 share position in 80 countries.

Sustainability is at the center of our company and by 2030 we aspire to advance the well-being of one billion people through social programs and reduce our environmental footprint by half.

We focus on the areas where we can make the biggest difference - climate, forests, water and plastics.

At Kimberly-Clark, treating individuals with respect is the way we do business and the way we lead our industry and our world.

We're building an organization that looks and thinks like our customers around the world and searching for talented people with different perspectives and varied backgrounds.

Business Overview

What You'll Do (Role Purpose)

Based in Toronto, Canada, the Canadian Country Manager position reports into the North America President for Kimberly-Clark Professional (KCP) and will be responsible for crafting the long-term strategic business plan for Canada and accelerating sustainable growth, taking into account all aspects of our business model.

Demonstrate a strong understanding of the customer perspective (internal, external and/or consumer), including a keen understanding of customer basic business operations and the organizational levers (systems, processes, departments, functions) that drive profitable growth and customer decision making. Activates this customer knowledge by integrating with internal levers in the development of business strategy and operational plans
Create sustainable profitable growth. Uses understanding of customers, categories and end user to create and seize business opportunities. Utilizes KCP's integrated strategic marketing and brand management practices to win in the marketplace. Effectively grows the business while maintaining the highest integrity
Actively collaborates with the Category and Channel Marketing team to validate our GTM hypotheses and implement our sales and marketing plans for the region in order to win in the marketplace.
Work crossfunctionally (sales force, inside sales, capability, marketing, supply chain, finance, legal, HR, etc.) to develop and execute strategic initiatives in Canada
Effectively allocates regional targets to team leads and marketing resources. Ensures delivery of all targets and controllable expense/spending within budgeted rates
Develop a winning and highperformance culture; fosters a coaching atmosphere by enabling our culture of accountability through the effective use of providing and asking for feedback
Proactively communicates with and provides feedback to Chief Customer Officer and KCPNA stakeholders regarding distributor stratification, pipeline activity, end user segmentation, and capability gaps to improve strategy execution
Act as the senior entity representative for KCP in Canada; ensure operations are within regulatory framework, results are achieved with the letter and spirit of COC, and appropriate internal controls are in place

The Impact You Can Make

Faster growth is our #1 imperative and as a Country Manager at K-C, you have the opportunity to make a direct impact on our growth agenda.

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Purpose Led - Better Care for a Better world means we lead with purpose and are focused on our social responsibility of impacting even more lives than we do today.
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Performance Driven - General Managers will be measured on their ability to directly increase Market Share through Net Sales, contributing to K-C's strategic growth plans.
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Care for Our People

We win through our people. Successful GM's leverage the full potential of their workforce by reaching best in class engagement levels within their respective organizations. Building the next generation of leaders is a top priority of GMs.

Experiences We're Looking For

Experience leading complex organizations and managing business with P&L visibility, sales and marketing experience and/or exposure in market with strong competition
Strong commercial focus an ability to discern business opportunities from market insights and drive these to successful business results
Highly developed collaboration skills with an ability to work across a matrix organization, influencing peers, other functions with credibility and strong business leadership
Change agent an ability to deal confidently with ambiguity, motivate people through transformation and mobilize