APAC Regional Category Manager

Description

APAC Regional Category Manager - Towels

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.

Leads Asia Pacific Towel category portfolio including asset utilization for regional products, innovation launch, regional demand review, price/performance/competitive mapping, regional quality and regulatory impacts and local renovation/LCM/BFS project management through IMF if necessary. Manages the P&L to deliver NS, volume GPROS and OP growth, share growth.

In your APAC Regional Category Manager - Towels role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities:

Portfolio Management & Optimization

Partners with Regional Marketing Leaders to manage the P&L for assigned regional product category.

Partners with Regional and Global Category Marketing to design & deliver a competitive product portfolio based on the Brand Foundation Tools for assigned regional product category.

Partners with Global Category to optimize the product portfolio by actively managing new SKU creation & obsolete / slow moving SKUs, define Pricing Strategy & maintain Price / Performance Mapping against key competitors for products within assigned product category.

Partners with Central & Cluster Brand Marketing to develop Category Foundations for assigned regional product category

Partners with R&D and Supply Chain to develop insights for innovation, Design to Value (DTV) initiatives as well as LCM project work

Partners with Regulatory team to ensure that we have knowledge and compliance of regional regulatory requirements

Product Supply

Partners with Regional Product Supply to manage capacity & asset utilization for assigned regional product category including managing customer expectations & responding to changing product forecasts

Provides input on short- & long-term category growth and product strategy

Partners with regional sales teams to ensure product forecasts are accurate and appropriate inventory levels are maintained

Standard Work

Manages product data & maintain accuracy in the PIM system for regional products within assigned product category & leads creation of new codes in SAP system for cross cluster SKUs

Regularly monitors competitor activity and builds appropriate response plans

Manages category metrics specific to growth targets on NSV, GP and OP for the categories in AP

Manages product specifications & datasheets, price increase support materials and out of stock communications

Applies Brand Identity Guidelines across the regional portfolio (especially on packaging) for assigned regional product category

Ensures all marketing content is uploaded & maintained in the Digital Asset Management System (incl. claims in EtQ)

Monitors performance of marketing programs (ROI) and adjusts accordingly

Manages assigned marketing budget within CFI’s

Actively visits customers and channel partners to capture insights and check and adjust marketing programs

Partners with Quality on testing standards as well as managing through major quality impacts in the region where applicable. 

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 151 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’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.

You’re also a university graduate with a Degree in Business, Accountancy or Finance or other related field and have at least 8 years of continuous work experience. 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.

Essential Requirements

Bachelor's degree, in business-related discipline

7-10 years of experience in marketing / Category management roles with a demonstrated track record of achievement and growth in leadership behavior

P&L exposure

Resolving complex problems and translating to business opportunities

Product & technology development and working with R&D, Manufacturing & Product Supply

Managing & successfully influencing complex stakeholder relationships

Preferred Requirements

Masters / MBA with concentration in Marketing

Experience in a B2B environment

Commercial / Functional Skills

Strong business & organizational acumen – understanding of market dynamics, P&L management & commercial mindset etc.

Product & portfolio management including managing projects through gate processes

Strong understanding of brand foundational tools

Strong analytics skills

Able to make tough, informed decisions quickly to keep performance on track

Able to navigate and perform in ambiguous circumstances

Demonstrated contagious positive energy to influence, inspire & drive results

English language proficiency

Total Benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you’ll enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark:

Competitive salary and incentives: We offer a competitive salary and a range of incentives, including bonus opportunities and flexible work options.

Fantastic range of benefits: Our benefits package is second to none, with everything from health & life insurance, dental & vision care, employee assistance program, paid time off, well-being activities, and more.

A culture of caring: We believe that a happy and healthy workforce is a productive workforce, so we offer a variety of programs and resources to support our employees' well-being. 

To Be Considered
Click the "Apply" button and complete our online application process. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and be in touch if you seem like a great fit for this role.

In the meantime, check out our to learn more about our company and the position. You'll want to be prepared with relevant questions when you move on to the interview stage.

Primary Location

Singapore UE Square

Additional Locations

Kuala Lumpur Office

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

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