Design Manager, Enterprise Markets at Kimberly-Clark

Job Description
Location: This is a role that offers the flexibility of working remotely.

• When applying for this role, please submit your portfolio along with your CV to showcase your skills and experience.
• 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. 

In this role, you will be reporting to the Enterprise Markets (EM) Head of Design and drive design excellence of

• Adult Feminine care – Kotex, Depend, Plenitud, Poise, Confidence
• Baby and Child care – Huggies
• in the EM markets - ISEA, EMEA and LATAM. You will be responsible for delivering the best executions of multiple brand touch points across design strategy, packaging & product design, product innovation, and ecommerce visual assets.
• Collaborate with the design leaders to create the design strategy fundamentals and generate design solutions (visions, innovation concepts, and scenarios) independently with your own mastery of design.
• Demonstrate a superior ability create high-quality, inspirational brand design solutions and to start applying design thinking from ideation through concept development, refinement, and execution.
• Bring the design strategy to life across assigned projects/initiatives by collaborating with internal stakeholders (design leaders, marketing, product developer, research analysis etc) and external design agencies.
• Deliver seamless packaging design experience from master design to local adaptation by working closely with artwork mangers. 
• Participate in research activities and effectively translates customer needs into actionable design requirements and apply those requirements into design solutions.
• Responsible for driving final design recommendations including decisions and design approval to enable artwork execution / production phases.

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.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• When applying for this role, please submit your portfolio along with your CV to showcase your skills and experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in graphic designs, packaging design, or related field.
• Minimum over 5 years of working experience in leading and developing design strategy
• Extraordinary design taste and expertise with an excellent sense of design trends
• Strong design portfolio that demonstrates design mastery in graphic design, packaging design, brand design, and show a range of visual assets and layouts in a wide variety of styles.
• Proven experience in developing a wide range of 360 brand touch points from initial ideation, through concept development, to commercialization (packaging, digital, posm, etc)
• Effectively communicates (verbally and written) with internal and external business partners
• Collaborative and works well with others to deliver results
• Excellent time and project management skills to be able to meet project deadlines.
• Advanced experience with Adobe Creative Suite software.
• Preference for those with experience in AI image generation tools (Adobe Firefly and Midjourney)
• Proficient communication in English.