Brand Manager Personal Care MENA

Brand Manager Personal Care MENA

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.  

An exciting opportunity has come forth for Brand Manager leading brand building and activation on personal care brands across MENA. This role reports to the Senior Marketing Manager for MENA.

The role purpose is to super charge growth of personal care brands via leading execution of local communication & innovation toolkits and supporting marketing & commercial organization with brand initiatives to deliver top line growth.

Key responsibilities:

• Brand building and activation:
  • Analysing consumer & RMS insights for commercial action & improvements.
  • Collaborating with commercial teams, local creative & media agencies to execute local campaigns holistically across all consumer touchpoints.
  • Project management of innovations & campaigns, stakeholder management to ensure on time in full delivery of all initiatives.
• Brand Development
  • Interface with Global\Regional teams for local input on communication tool kits.
  • Cross functionally collaborate with extended teams for bringing all innovations from idea to execution in market.

This is an individual contributor role for those who hold Saudi Nationality (as per government requirements) based in Jeddah. This role is available for local candidates, Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Kotex®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day. And it takes the right people, in the right jobs and the right places, to make that happen.

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.

About You

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

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

• Approx 3+ years of FMCG experience (multinational is a plus), preferably in personal care\beauty categories.
• Brand building experience preferred; develop local\adapting regional communications, project management of innovations and executing in-market (consumer insight generation & analysis, 360 launch – media planning, communication, on-ground activation etc).
• Experience working with cross functional teams and external agency partners (media, creative, activation, consumer insights, packaging development agencies etc).
• Saudi national only, fluent in English.
• Based in Jeddah or open to relocation to Jeddah.

Total benefits

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.

An inspiring challenge within a Global company.

Career opportunities and personalized development.

Great support for good health with medical coverage for the employee and eligible dependents.

Hybrid Working arrangements.

To Be Considered

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.

In the meantime, check out the careers website. You’ll want to review this and come prepared with relevant questions if and when you pass GO and begin interviews.

And finally, the fine print…
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 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.

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.

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