Associate Director - Brand Design - Family Care

Associate Director - Brand Design - Family Care

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. 

This role will lead a team of design professionals and champion design as a strategic business tool for the Family Care business driving growth for a portfolio of iconic brands, which includes Scott®, Viva®, Cottonelle®, Kleenex®.

The intention is to elevate the role of design and creative to deliver exceptional consumer experiences, seamlessly, across all touchpoints.

The incumbent reports to the Brand Design & Packaging Director and engages directly with Family Care cross-functional leaders in support of Brand business priorities and provides strategic design leadership from creative development to tactical execution, meeting customer and consumer needs, as well as delivering financial results, and optimal business solutions with winning value propositions.

The ideal candidate is both a creative and strategic thinker who has deep empathy for people and has passion for creating purposeful brands and meaningful consumer experiences.

Applies strategic, analytical, and design thinking to solve challenging problems across a range of topics.

The position requires someone who has a depth of experience leading and developing strategic design/creative initiatives and preferably has CPG experience.

In this role, you will:


* Build design talent, team capabilities, inspire and lead a team of design managers/designers (4+ team direct reports).


* Provide leadership to ensure attracting, developing and retaining incredible design talent while fostering an environment which motivates a diverse team to fully use its capabilities in achieving desired business result.


* Build strategic design/creative capabilities with the rapidly changing customer and consumer needs. 


* Drive ongoing brand design team engagement with cross functional partners to deliver competitive advantage to Kimberly-Clark while elevating design in the entire consumer experience.


* Demonstrate the power and value of integrated Design solutions/visual design systems for assigned brands across, all sensorial consumer touchpoints, with a direct link to commercial campaigns and market activations.


* Demonstrate the impact of design in the consumer ecosystem.


* Ensures alignment to the global foundational tools/Global Brand Identity guidelines for assigned brands.


* Accountable for brand design strategy development all the way to seamless market execution; (product, physical/digital package, the shelf, merchandi...