The posting
Associate Sustainability Manager
Job Description
Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.
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.
About You
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.
In this Associate Sustainability Manager role you will support the execution of Kimberly-Clark Professional (KCP) sustainability strategy in North America by leveraging data and insights to create tools to support cross‑functional team collaboration to embed sustainability into products, commercialization, and customer value propositions. You’ll play an important part in ensuring compliance with legal reporting requirements, and making sustainability data clear and accessible for customers in collaboration with sales teams.
You’ll own execution and upkeep of assigned sustainability tools, trackers, and reporting assets and day‑to‑day delivery of sustainability support requests from internal teams and/or customers. Alongside your team, you’ll collaborate with Category Managers, R&D, Customer Marketing, Corporate Sustainability, and Legal team members to integrate sustainability into go‑to‑market activities.
In this role, you will:
- Gather, validate, analyze, and leverage sustainability and business data to support regulatory and compliance reporting requirements and customer requests, including questionnaires, product impact summaries, and documentation.
- Maintain and update sustainability KPI tracking tools and dashboards to enable accurate internal reporting and progress visibility
- Support development and maintenance of customer-facing sustainability tools and content across channels and priority segments to ensure consistent messaging and execution
- Support development of sustainability business cases and project plans by contributing basic financial and value analysis
- Apply continuous improvement discipline to standard work, tools, and processes that enable sustainability execution
To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Marketing, Engineering, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.
- 3+ years of experience in marketing, sales, product development, product management, project management, sustainability, compliance, or another related business function.
- Experience working across functions to execute product, commercialization, portfolio, reporting, or other business initiatives.
- Experience working with complex data and reporting requirements, including gathering, validating, analyzing, and translating information into accurate reports, documentation, or business outputs.
- Demonstrated project management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders, workstreams, data inputs, and deadlines.
- Strong analytical, communication, presentation, and influencing skills, including the ability to translate complex information into clear, practical outputs.
- Ability to translate business objectives into action plans, maintain execution discipline, and apply data-driven learning.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting regulatory, compliance, sustainability, product stewardship, environmental, or other externally required reporting.
- Knowledge of sustainability trends, regulations, reporting requirements, and/or evolving customer expectations.
- Experience in a B2B environment, with sales or commercial experience preferred.
- MBA or Master's degree.
Led by Purpose. Driven by You.
Total Benefits
We believe that our employees are our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing them with the resources they need to be successful. If you're looking for a rewarding career with a company that cares about its employees, then Kimberly-Clark is the place for you.
Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com
Flex That Works at Kimberly-Clark
We believe great work happens when people come together with purpose. That’s why we offer a flexible work model that blends remote work with intentional in-person collaboration — helping you connect, grow, and innovate while maintaining the balance you value.
To Be Considered
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And finally, the fine print….
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, which is why we seek to build a workforce that encompasses 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.
The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.
Employment is subject to verification of local policies.
Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.
Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.
This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.
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Grade 10 / P1 - grade level and / or compensation may vary based on location/country
Salary Range: 87,260 – 107,780 USD
At Kimberly-Clark, pay is just one aspect of our total rewards package, which also includes a variety of benefits and opportunities to achieve, thrive and grow. Along with base pay, this position offers eligibility for a target bonus and a comprehensive benefits suite, including our 401(k) and Profit Sharing plan. The anticipated base pay range for this role is provided above for a fully qualified hire. Actual pay will depend on several factors, such as location, role, skills, performance, and experience. Please note that the stated pay range applies to US locations only.
Primary Location
Roswell Building 300
Additional Locations
Worker Type
Employee
Worker Sub-Type
Regular
Time Type
Full time
