Director, Strategy & Transformation

Kimberly-Clark•Chicago, IL

3d•$185,780 - $240,140•Hybrid

About The Position

Kimberly-Clark is seeking a Strategy & Transformation Director to help lead enterprise transformation by translating strategic ambition into focused priorities, value initiatives, disciplined execution plans, and measurable outcomes. This role will help shape and steward the enterprise transformation agenda by partnering with the Chief Operating Officer, Segment Presidents, Global Functional leaders, Corporate Strategy, and initiative owners to clarify what matters most, align leadership attention, and mobilize the organization against the highest-value opportunities. The Strategy & Transformation Director will play a critical role in operationalizing Kimberly-Clark’s enterprise strategy by helping the enterprise transform its path to growth, cost effectiveness, and ways of working. The role is designed for a strategic operator who can bring structure to ambiguity, develop value initiatives with Segment and Functional leaders, build credible business cases and execution plans, and ensure priorities are integrated into the company’s operating rhythm so the organization can deliver sustained impact.

Requirements

10+ years of business experience in strategy consulting, transformation, corporate strategy, enterprise program leadership, business analysis, or a related business or functional discipline.
MBA from a top-tier business school is highly preferred, with demonstrated business success in strategy, marketing, finance, operations, sales analytics, or related functional leadership roles.
Strategic Storytelling and Executive Communication: Outstanding written, verbal, storytelling, and presentation skills, including the ability to create clear, executive-ready materials for C-suite leaders and the Board of Directors.
Structured Problem Solving: Ability to bring structure to ambiguous problems, frame key questions, develop practical workplans, and translate complexity into clear choices and recommendations.
Analytical and Quantitative Mindset: Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to independently generate strategic insights, assess value opportunities, and use data to inform priorities and decisions.
Executive Stakeholder Relationships: Confidence, credibility, decisiveness, and executive presence, with the ability to build trust quickly with senior leaders, initiative owners, and cross-functional partners.
Business Judgment: Ability to assess business risks, opportunities, trade-offs, and implementation realities and translate them into practical recommendations that improve outcomes.
Initiative and Motivation: Highly motivated self-starter who is performance driven, comfortable operating independently, and able to move work forward in a fast-paced environment.
Consumer, CPG, and Retail Industry Knowledge: Knowledge of key players, dynamics, trends, industry analyses, and metrics is helpful.
Collaboration: Enjoys working across teams, building productive relationships, and leading through influence in a matrixed environment.
Influence and Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to influence senior-level stakeholders, build alignment across boundaries, and sustain leadership focus on critical priorities.
Agility and Versatility: Demonstrated success working in a fast-paced setting with shifting priorities, complex trade-offs, and high visibility initiatives.

Responsibilities

Partner with the Chief Operating Officer, Segment Presidents, Global Functional leaders, Corporate Strategy, and senior initiative owners to shape and align on the priorities that are critical to delivering Kimberly-Clark’s strategic and transformation ambition.
Work with Segment and Functional leadership teams to develop value initiatives, clarify the ambition and expected impact, build credible business cases, and mobilize teams against the highest-value opportunities.
Translate enterprise priorities into a sequenced portfolio of initiatives with clear milestones, owners, governance, decision points, resourcing needs, and cross-functional support required to move from idea to execution.
Drive leadership discussion and debate on prioritization, trade-offs, strategic choices, acceleration opportunities, and risks to value delivery using facts, judgment, and personal impact to build credibility and influence outcomes.
Provide structured problem solving and analytic support to initiative teams, including framing business questions, developing hypotheses, conducting analysis, sizing opportunities, identifying root causes, and translating insights into practical recommendations.
Develop and execute the approach to ensure transformation priorities are set up for success with credible plans, resourcing, investment, leadership attention, and integration into the company’s operating rhythm.
Build mechanisms to understand progress against opportunity, establish accountability, identify gaps and risks, and enable timely escalation, decision making, roadblock removal, and course correction.
Partner with initiative teams to drive outcomes by acting as a thought partner on full-potential opportunity, strategic choices, execution discipline, acceleration, and de-risking of value delivery.
Provide targeted, high-impact support on critical initiatives directly or by mobilizing internal strategy, transformation, consulting, or initiative teams as needed.