at Kimberly-Clark USA, LLC in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Associate Director, Consumer Insights & Analytics Family Care & Front End Innovation (FEI) Capabilities
Job Description
Youre not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because were 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, youll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, youll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.
Do you have a passion for uncovering the mystery behind the consumer psyche? Are you always on the lookout for innovative ways to understand and influence human behavior? Do you love leading and inspiring a team of dedicated consumer insights professionals that collaborate across functions to optimize innovation and guide the future? Then we want you to join our Consumer Insights & Analytics team and help define the future of our innovation.
With your deep expertise in quantitative and qualitative research, behavior science and design thinking, you'll take the lead in uncovering 360-degree human understanding to inspire growth-minded decisions and foster a data-driven culture. You'll be the driving force behind applying meaningful, best-in-class consumer insights to create breakthrough innovative products and experiences that will make a difference in consumers lives.
As an exceptional communicator, you will build strong relationships with stakeholders across all levels of the organization and will be vital player in a team of brand strategists, engineers, and designers. You will build the talent of others by developing and sharing best practices with your direct reports, the Insights & Analytics community, and broader organization. As a creative and critical thinker with a passion for innovation, you will always be looking for new ways to push the boundaries of what's possible.
In this role, you will:
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Leading the Family Care Front End Innovation (FEI) consumer insights team to ensure the team's category-level I&A agendas reflect the most important consumer questions for the business in support of the brand's top tier growth goals. These may include understanding brand performance, portfolio growth strategy, exploring potential new categories and test and learn opportunities. Additionally, this role will have KCNA-level responsibility for providing strategic leadership in development and execution of FEI capabilities to drive continuous improvement in how we develop and evaluate early innovation.
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Bring best-in-class capability building vision to lead the innovation insights ecosystem and create the future state roadmap.
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Train and drive best practices in the consistent application of innovation research and processes across the KCNA organization.
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Lead individually or with team on critical projects or processes that disproportionately impact the business unit's growth goals and/or ability to create competitive advantage. Provide hands on guidance and oversight to team on critical projects and analyses.
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Relentlessly drive toward a 360-degree understanding of our consumers across the consumer journey; provoking continuous improvement and motivating adoption of tools to further this effort.
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Serve as subject matter expert for team to design and explain consumer insights techniques and results when necessary. Lead supplier conversation in complex...
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