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.

Trade Promotion is an investment that Kimberly Clark makes to sell our products. North America Consumer trade spend accounts for approximately $800 million dollars. Examples include channel and customer discounts, trading terms, loyalty programs, display and end cap discounts and price promotions. This role serves as a trade promotion Subject Matter Expert (SME) for a portfolio of North America Consumer accounts.

The Trade Promotion Marketing Specialist supports Kimberly-Clark North America (KCNA) Trade Promotion Management by building collaborative relationships with KCNA sales teams, managing a portfolio of accounts and related trade invoices, deductions, allocations to trade events, ensuring budgets are accurately reported, identifying issues i.e., overspent trade promotions, invalid invoices or deductions.

Customers:

Key customers for this position are KCNA Sales teams, Customer Finance and Customer Development teams, often at the Director level. These customers expect the prompt and accurate management of all Trade Promotion processes in order to achieve desired results. The incumbent plays a key role in gathering, interpreting, analyzing and coordination of information for assigned customer account portfolio.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Build and maintain a collaborative relationship with KCNA Sales teams.
• Responsible for the timely, accurate entries and maintenance of trade settlements.
• Analyze and validate data and issue rebate payments in a timely manner.
• Review invalid billing with Sales finance and dispute as needed with customer.
• Provide internal customers analysis, trends as related to assigned account(s).
• Monitor customer account activity so that negative trends in Trade Promotion performance are recognized and addressed with customer and business management.
• Report to the Trade Promotions Manager whenever corporate financial policies or instructions are not being followed, or appear inappropriate, inadequate, or out of date.
• Contribute to an environment in which all team members are respected regardless of their individual differences and are motivated to improve both individual and team contributions to achieve desired business results.

About Us

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best teams committed to driving innovation and growth. We’re founded on 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform—so what can you do with that? There’s no time like the present to make an impact at Kimberly-Clark. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You’re driven to perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or higher, or equivalent.
• Strong attention to detail, thorough, analytical mindset
• The candidate must be able to communicate with all functions of the organization and possess the ability to decipher and communicate financial data with key stakeholders.
• The individual should be able to understand, translate, and provide useful insights of the financial implications related to decisions, actions, and team objectives.
• Intermediate Excel skills

Preferred Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• 2+ years’ experience in Trade Promotion, marketing or accounting related functions
• SAP and BW experience
• Advanced Excel skills

Total Benefits

For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com

Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact 866-444-4516 for assistance. You must include the six digit Job # with your request.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. K-C will not provide relocation support for this role.