Project Manager, Marketing Operations

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 Project Manager, Marketing Operations role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

Please ensure you read the below overview and requirements for this employment opportunity completely.

In this role you will be responsible for driving overall campaign management, timelines, day-to-day agency operations and ensuring the appropriate check points across the Kimberly-Clark organization.

You will be an essential partner with the Brand Team to organize across a variety of internal and external stakeholders to deploy campaigns both on time and in budget.

The right team member will understand how to balance multiple priorities, stakeholders, shifting timelines, while maintaining quality in output.

You’ll be deep in the creative process and have a strong understanding of the agency landscape. This role requires someone who can work independently, moving fluidly within a fast-paced environment and who is well-versed in project management.

This is hybrid role based from Kimberly-Clark’s Chicago Commercial Center. In this role, you will :

Campaign Management

• Lead project delivery across multiple workstreams, inclusive of running workflow meetings, owning the project timeline and tracking the marketing budget.
• Owner of project health tracker, tracking progress against key milestones and identifying roadblocks across all workstreams.
• Responsible for team connectivity at the project-level, ensuring a steady flow of communication between internal groups.

Agency Team Leadership & Collaboration

• Primary point of contact for agency partners at the project-level, coordinating timelines and key milestones.
• Track agency progress against scope, ensuring all workstreams are delivered to Kimberly-Clark standards of excellence and adhere to aligned scope of work.
• In partnership with Procurement, responsible for project-level scoping and budget negotiations with agency partners, utilizing approved benchmarks.

Ways of Working Adherence

• Uphold standardized Kimberly-Clark ways of working across projects, ensuring a consistent and repeatable workflow.
• Responsible for appropriate project documentation and organization for streamlined collaboration across internal and external groups.

Annual Planning Coordination

Oversee annual planning timeline at the brand-level, working with internal teams and agency partners to track to key touchpoints and delivering quality presentations.

About Us

Huggies. Kleenex. Cottonelle. Scott. Kotex. Poise. Depend. Kimberly-Clark Professional. You already know our legendary brands and so does the rest of the world.

In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform so there’s your open door of opportunity.

It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You 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.

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 :

• 5+ years of Project Management experience working in a similar CPG organization or advertising agency on large brands and portfolios.
• Strong experience in developing and managing multiple project timelines and executions, delivering on time and within budget.
• Proven ability to lead and collaborate with an Integrated Agency Team (creative + media at minimum).
• Must have experience in budget management and tracking.
• A proven track record of managing multiple stakeholders, from Brand Managers to C-Suite.
• Strong organizational skills, detail-oriented.
• Excellent internal and external stakeholder communication skills.
• Ability to create and maintain detailed project documentation.
• Proficient with project management methodologies and software (Jira, Smartsheet, Trello, etc.).

Preferred qualifications :

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent.

Total Benefits

For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.

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.

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, please check out the careers website.

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