Senior Product Transformation Coach at Kimberly-Clark Corporation in neenah, Wisconsin

Job Description:

Senior Product Transformation Coach

Job Description

You have a talent for recognizing trends and aiming for bigger goals

You have an active interest in keeping up with trends, market needs, and your organization’s competitive standing, and you share your broad awareness to inform decisions and recommendations.  Your overview will help inform our ability to innovate, adapt, and stay ahead of the curve. We will listen carefully to your observations and recognize and reward your contributions.

Summary:

As the Senior Product Transformation Coach you will lead the Digital transition from a project to product centric organization and be the co-owner of the Digital Product Management Framework. You will coach business leaders and product teams on how to embed product and agile mindset within our organization. This will allow us to get closer to our consumers in the digital space through continuous value creation. You will also be the spokesperson for the Product Transformation Office to evangelize the value of product and agile mindset with business leaders to build co-ownership of the transformation journey.

Key Accountabilities: 

• Provide thought-leadership and guide enterprise through the digital product transformation journey to transition from project centric to product centric organization (how we can add value by solving problems rather than building solutions first and then find problems)


• Mentor/coach senior business and DTS leaders on product and agile mindset to enable them as effective leaders in digital product space


• Provide one on one and team level coaching for Product Managers specifically related to market research & validation, segmentation, personas, customer journeys, problem statements, market needs, product vision, business cases, MVPs, roadmaps, driving product adoption


• Coach product teams on how to define and monitor outcomes and value realization


• Monitor effectiveness of product management practices and drive continuous improvement to K-C product management framework and practices, includes the implementation of new product management practices


• Directly influence leadership (up to executive levels) and their teams throughout DTS (infrastructure, applications teams, business partners, Strategy/Innovation/Architecture, Cyber Security and Assurance) to drive adoption of Product thinking


• Mentor developing Product Management coaches


• Engage with external Product Management guilds to further research, learning insuring product management framework is aligned with industry standards

Key Qualifications and Experiences:

• B.A. or B.S./M.S. (Advanced degree preferred) in a relevant field.


• 12+ years of Professional experience with a minimum of 4 years of Information Technology experience.


• +4 yrs. working as Product Management


• +2 yrs. working as Product Owner (preferred)


• +4 yrs. working in an Agile Software Delivery Environment


• +2 yrs. working as a Product Management Coach


• +2 yrs. working within an organization focused on Digital Transition


• Experience developing and deploying Global Methodologies in a large organization


• Prior accountabilities that required influencing leaders outside of administrative authority; Strong leadership skills with emphasis on communications and partner management

Preferred Experiences:

• Product Manager Certification; Product Owner Certification


• Own internal marketing efforts to raise visibility of the transformation journey to create enthusiasm and pull to be a part of this journey

Innovation grows when it is cultivated and nurtured

Our diverse organization believes in letting people fly and be free to share their ideas. If you are an innovative individual with limitless imagination, this is where you belong. We believe in inclusion and crave new insights. If you yearn for a workplace to share your creative thoughts, please respond.

Kimberly-Clark makes the essentials for a better life with well-known brands that matter every day – at home, school, work and on the go. Throughout our 148 years, we have challenged conventional wisdom to innovate products that better meet the needs of consumers. We have created new categories with top brands like Kleenex®, and redefined categories with Huggies® and U by Kotex®. While growing our $18+ billion global business, we help build careers through collaborative teams that push boundaries and endless opportunities to work with some of the world’s most recognized brands. Our 43,000 employees are changing the world for the better, too, generously giving back to communities and causes around the globe. 

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.

With an inclusive culture, our employees – and the original thinking they bring to Kimberly-Clark – make us stronger.  EOE disability/vet.

K-C requires that an employee have authorization to work in the country in which the role is based.  In the event an applicant does not have current work authorization, K-C will determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sponsor an individual for work authorization.  However, based on immigration requirements, not all roles are suitable for sponsorship.

Global VISA and Relocation Specifications:

K-C will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role. The benefits provided will be per the terms of K-C’s applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will decided in K-C’s sole discretion.

Primary Location

USA-WI-Neenah

Additional Locations

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Salary:

$10,000.00

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