Associate Brand Manager - Summer 2025 MBA Grads

Description

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.

As an Associate Brand Manager you will facilitate key initiatives related to marketing planning and execution for one of Kimberly-Clark's iconic brands, as well as overall execution and results delivery for the Kimberly-Clark North America business unit.

This role will report to a Senior Brand Manager and key customers include brand, sector and business unit management, R&E, customer development, design, agency partners, and product supply teams.

In this role you will :

Provide project and / or marketing support on key initiatives to help sustainably grow the brand's marketplace position (e.

g. new product launches, pricing initiatives, etc.)

Analyze consumer data, market share and sales reports to understand brand performance, product health and to track progress against marketing initiatives and return on investment analysis for marketing program

Create compelling stories and make sound recommendations about the brand, competitive, category, customer, or consumer trends to enhance the brand’s equity and market performance

Actively conduct both basic and in-depth analysis to identify problems, find trends, develop hypothesis, and drive the organization towards decisions to strengthen the brand’s plan

Identify and develop relevant consumer and / or shopper insights

Work closely with strategic customer teams to build and implement distribution, packaging, shelving and merchandising strategies and plans

Executes annual business and marketing plans that deliver financial objectives

Actively participate in the execution of brand commercial programs

Using business acumen in conjunction with marketing competency to influence projects cross-functionally

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.

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 :

Bachelors degree with an emphasis in marketing.

2+ years of previous business experience.

Solid knowledge of PC based applications (Windows, Word, Excel, Power Point).

Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Passionate about driving brand growth by better meeting consumer needs.

Must be self-driven, not deadline driven.

Experience working with cross-functional groups (e.g finance, operations, planning).

Eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

Preferred Qualifications :

MBA with emphasis in Marketing - Grad date range : May / June 2025

Previous marketing internship experience at a Fortune 500 CPG company.

Total Benefits : For a complete overview, see

Hybrid Work Arrangements : You’re looking to make a difference. When and where it works best for you. And 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 work (hybrid) 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.

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

Primary Location

USA-IL-Chicago

Additional Locations

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time