Job Posting Title
Gr 6 / PG 40 - BCC / Personal Care – Director, Strategy Deployment and Business Operations – US – Chicago
Job Description
- Role: BCC / Personal Care –Director, Strategy Deployment and Business Operations
- Reporting to: Andrea Zahumensky
- Country: United States of America
- Location: Chicago
- Pay Grade: Gr 6 / PG 40
The Director, Strategy Deployment and Business Operations leader reports into the President of the BCC / Personal Care Transformation ABU, Andrea Zahumensky. This role will partner with the President, BCC / PC Transformation, Cross-Functional Leaders (i.e. R&D, Supply Chain, I&A, RGM, Finance, Legal, HR, etc.) and Senior Director, Transformation to lead broad-based strategy deployment for the Sector and provide oversight of multi-functional strategy deployment for the business. The role will enable a cohesive business unit growth agenda and manage the critical linkage across the portfolio of brands through development and deployment of a cohesive sector portfolio strategy and deploying aligned goals and objectives across the sector functional leaders.
In This Role, You Will
- In partnership with ABU leadership team, develop and execute against key sector strategy growth domains
- Manage key KCNA business processes within the business unit to ensure delivery, sustainability, and continuous improvement. These processes include: Strategic Business Plan (SBP); Annual Operating Plan (AOP); Annual Business Plan (ABP); Innovation Management Framework & Process
- Deliver and enable a sector management framework to optimize the team’s operational model to achieve its top priorities, key initiatives and improve decision-making.
- In partnership with the Sr. Director Transformation, drive the development of the sector’s Transformation Agenda and key initiatives. and execute the deployment and tracking system to follow-up on progress and assess results monthly in the team’s executive scorecard.
- Partnering with the business’s Talent Business Partner, evolve the culture, support talent management initiatives in partnership to continue to build talent, attract, engage talent and develop a diverse consumer organization.
- Identify and leverage best practices to drive synergies across global sector teams, regions & functional areas.
- Drive communication strategy, cohesion and operational delivery of the cross-functional organization using empowerment and engagement of teams.
- Set the annual work plan for the organization: team’s calendar, key meetings and its purpose, process and outcome.
- Work with communications team to drive the sector’s narrative, through quarterly town halls and monthly communication vehicles
- Act as Chief of Staff for the business unit President
- Provide coaching and guidance to key sector initiative teams, including project teams and sector cost transformation teams
- Manages ad hoc priority initiatives that are mission critical to the business sector or KCNA.
To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree, Graduate degree (preferred)
- Minimum of 10 years of business leadership experience with a history or demonstrated business success
- Outstanding organization / project management skill
- Ability to navigate ambiguity
- Strong communication / change management skills
- Strong understanding and experience in a global environment
- Strong leadership & EQ
- Strategic thinker with strong execution
- Demonstrated leadership to enable a business unit to significantly improve, deliver or exceed business results in three areas: financial, executing large complex business initiatives and transforming culture
- Demonstrated ability to develop and then deploy strategy across large organization cross-functionally and integrate within global organization.
Please note: at this time Kenvue / KC will not be supporting candidates through a Immigration / Green Card / Permanent Residency process.
Company sponsored relocation is not provided. All interested candidates who are outside of the role’s location options must self-relocate if interested in the role.
