Sr. Customer Business Partner

Kimberly-Clark•USA-TX-Flexible Location, TX

5d•$101,220 - $125,060•Hybrid

About The Position

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional® At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and theחס chance to make a real impact. 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’re responsible for the development and execution of the HEB Family Care joint business plan for K-C’s H-E-B business. Delivery of the JBP is in conjunction with category, finance, shopper marketing, digital as well as other key K-C capabilities working in step with HEB’s buyer and leadership team. You'll maintain relationships and for the implementation of K-C brand strategies and tactics with the customer. Critical in this role, is to comprehend overall corporate, sales, trade, marketing and general business objectives to ensure contribution, trade management, volume and growth profit objectives are met. About You 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
4+ years of progressive exempt status experience in sales, business, customer management, and customer development
Proficient in customer, category and trade management
Proven record of exceeding sales objectives
Knowledge of forecasting, supply and demand experience, and shelf reset experience
Solid skills in Excel & PowerPoint
Experience in Sales, building excellent relationships, excellent oral, verbal and written communication skills, results and strategy orientation, business intuition, ethical judgment and decision making, business management and planning, methodical, creative problem-solver, building solid relationships, statistics and quantitative business analysis, change management and team management
Mentoring, networking, resource management, prioritization and time management, cross-functional relationships, high-caliber customer service problem solving, adaptable, relentless push for improved business results and processes

Nice To Haves

CPG industry experience and K-C customer/retailer account/s experience, ideally working with H-E-B as your customer

Responsibilities

Lead the total team to work with the one voice mind set (we win together: Category Management, Account Management, Shopper Marketing, Shopper Insights, Finance, Digital Engagement and Sales) to develop and execute an Omni-channel JBP that delivers our financial goals and metrics (JBP & K-C targets)
Drive the development and execution of best in-class DPSM (distribution, pricing, shelving, merchandising) programs that support category and K-C growth strategies
Develop and deliver insights and plans that successfully execute national plans to deliver share growth
Track progress of key objectives through an analysis of business performance and develop corrective actions to close gaps to JBP goals
Identify areas where the team can streamline and simplify to focus on the highest value activities
Seek out opportunities to deliver on strategic priorities for the future (Line Review, JBP, Innovation Summits etc.)