Country Lead Cr

**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.
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.
Our portfolio of brands, including Huggies, Kleenex, Scott, Kotex, Cottonelle, Poise, Depend, Andrex, Pull-Ups, GoodNites, Neve, Plenitud, Viva, Softex, Sweety and WypAll, hold the No.
1 or No.
2 share position in 80 countries.
**What You Get to Do**
- Lead long term business vision while delivering near term results.
Drive full potential growth through brand building, business unit strategy development and executional excellence, inspired by consumer insights and industry opportunities, and consistent with K-C's corporate strategy and mission.
- Oversee, manage, and transform all aspects of brands, business, people, and operations in leading and influencing the matrix organization.
Has complete P&L and organizational accountability for a multifunctional business unit.
- Develop and nurture a distinctive, inclusive, and agile work environment, and lead continuous talent development, recruitment, and retention as a competitive advantage.
- Play a pivotal role in modeling, promoting, amplifying, and sustaining our K-C Values, Ways of Working and Culture.
Create the environment to unlock the power of our matrix - leveraging both local agility and global scale to win.
**Experiences We're Looking For**
- 12+ cross functional years' experience, ideally having served in Marketing and Sales leadership positions with at least one position in brand building.
- Held 2+ General Manager (GM) roles in countries/small cluster, or a GM role in combination with Category or assignment in Corporate or Regional Strategy, Transformation, Capability.
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field, MBA preferred
- Exceptional ability to navigate within the matrix building strong cross-functional relationships with peers, leaders, and multiple stakeholders:

- Ability to drive cross country collaboration, manage trade-offs and develop best practices.
- Demonstrated leadership managing high-impact and complex projects with significant results in a matrix environment.
- Proven track record of leading, developing and motivating cross-functional and diverse teams creating an inclusive culture, to include leading leaders.
- Experience working with individuals and teams from different cultural backgrounds and experience working in two are more countries and/or geographies preferred
- Demonstrated leadership in at least two of the following areas: Revenue Growth Management, Sales & Customer Management, Holistic Portfolio Management, Expansive Growth Strategy (Category, Channel, Geography) with proven Executional Excellence, Innovation Execution, and Business Plan Development, Brand Strategy and Communication.
- Strong commercial abilities and financial acumen, with ability to create / direct / read business plans and performance.
- Coaching and Talent development: Leadership with a coaching mindset that accelerates talent development and stretches all talent to perform at full potential
- English required in addition to Spanish

**Leadership Skills We Value**
- ** Focus on Consumers**.
We keep the needs of customers and consumers at the center of our work.
Building strong customer relationships and delivering consumer-centric solutions.
Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies that delight our consumers.
- ** Play to Win**.
We aim high, measure our results, and live our values because winning with integrity matters.
Setting aggressive goals and consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
Pushing past status quo to create new and better ways to solve problems and win.
- ** Move Fast**.
We turn decisions into action, remove barriers and seek progress over perfection.
Stepping up to champion ideas, address difficult issues and say what needs to be said.
Tackling challenges with a sense of urgency, seizing new opportunities and scaling winning solutions.
- ** Grow our People**.
We champion inclusion and encourage our people to ideate, innovate and contribute to their growth.
Encouraging diverse perspectives, experiences and backgrounds that enable our winning culture.
Placing a high priority on developing self and others to meet career goals and the organization's goals.