Job Description
Job Description 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. The Associate Director, RGM Pricing Strategy is accountable for defining and executing KCP North America’s enterprise Revenue Growth Management (RGM) strategy to maximize profitable growth, price realization, and competitive advantage. This position reports to the KCP RGM Director and provides strategic leadership across all four revenue management levers—direct pricing strategy and implementation, mix management, price-pack architecture, and inputs to commercial terms/terms of trade—ensuring pricing actions are analytically grounded, commercially executable, and aligned to long-term value creation. As the business’s strategic pricing authority, the Associate Director owns price architecture (including pricing bands), price realization governance, deal economics, contract price terms, and escalation decisions in close partnership with Sales, Finance, Category, Legal, and e-commerce leaders. The role leads and develops a team of 3 revenue management strategists to rapidly translate data into clear, actionable plans that deliver meaningful profit improvement and strengthen pricing discipline across the organization. A core expectation is to advance KCPNA’s RGM capability toward an advanced analytics vision—leveraging predictive analytics and AI/ML-enabled tools to improve and modernize pricing bands, forecast outcomes, identify opportunities, and proactively challenge thinking to unlock revenue and profit upside. We are looking for an individual that is team-oriented, innovative and proactive with a track record of managing and developing a revenue management pricing strategy. The incumbent will need to have a continuously improve mindset and provide insightful analysis. There is an expectation to provide forward thinking recommendations and implementation and adherence (both strategic and tactical) on go-to-market opportunities relative to marketing, sales and pricing. This individual will both lead and support critical projects across the NA region. Key skills and competencies include a) high level of subject matter expertise & experience i.e. Revenue Management b) excellent collaboration ability with sales and marketing category teams c) balanced leadership and executive maturity in holding the line on RGM processes and business partnering to ensure business continuity. D) Good communication skills e) Excellent team management and people leadership skills f) superior change management capability. In This Role, You Will: RGM & Pricing Strategy (4 Levers) Lead end-to-end RGM strategy across direct pricing execution, mix management, price-pack architecture (PPA), and commercial terms-of-trade inputs to maximize profitable growth, price realization, and competitiveness. Set pricing standards, guidelines, and controls; drive adherence and consistent execution across Sales, Category, and Finance. Lead inflationary and expansionary price actions, including scenario planning, risk mitigation, and implementation governance. Provide analysis, advice, and leadership recommendations to improve decision quality and optimize customer profitability. Deal Governance, Contracts & Gross-to-Net Controls Serve as pricing authority for deal escalations; recommend actions and govern approvals to protect margin and value capture. Review and govern pricing-related contract terms and gross-to-net levers (e.g., list price, functional discounts, contract pricing, indexation, rebates/surcharges, and other non-standard structures). Partner with Legal, Finance, Sales, and e-commerce to ensure terms are compliant, financially sound, clearly documented, and aligned to strategy. Continuously improve escalation process, thresholds, and documentation to enable speed, transparency, and control. Revenue Transformation & Go-to-Market Enablement Lead execution of the strategic revenue transformation framework across Sales, Marketing, Finance, and business support teams in targeted markets; ensure compliance to business processes and controls. Develop and maintain policy and process for go-to-market projects, including governance, standards, and adoption mechanisms. Drive change management (leadership alignment, stakeholder engagement, communications) to accelerate implementation, remove barriers, remedy