Head of Marketing and Innovation

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Have a high share of voice in the Business Unit's overall direction and results, and work to build, refine, and integrate business plan choices across all functions, including growth and fulfillment.
• Lead the Business Unit's growth aspiration, alignment, and execution by obsessing about consumer behaviors and needs, uniting cross-functional teams, developing brand growth strategies, allocating resources, and leading innovation initiatives.
• Create and execute holistic marketing strategies that drive consumer and customer engagement, including an integrated 'One Demand Plan' over an 18-month horizon, bringing the brand story to life across digital and physical touchpoints.
• Develop people and build an effective brand organization, fostering an inclusive culture, strengthening leadership skills, and developing a high-performing team of demand creators.
• Lead and participate in marketing capability and community development by leveraging company scale, driving training, technology enablement, and enterprise projects.
• Keep Clorox, the BU, and the Studio on the cutting edge of CPG by demonstrating curiosity, continuous learning, and driving transformation related to growth, brand building, and best practices.
• Advance Clorox's culture of brand and consumer obsession by ensuring marketing initiatives uphold brand integrity and resonate with consumer needs, inspiring organization-wide prioritization of consumer-centric approaches.

Requirements

• Proven track record of meeting or exceeding business objectives with potential for General Manager accountability.
• Ability to influence leadership and advance ideas for strategic recommendations to GM.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in data-driven decision-making, forecasting, and building business cases.
• Deep understanding of consumer insights, competitive intelligence, and translating ambiguous data into actionable strategies.
• Experience with agile or lean development tools and generating innovative ideas that meet consumer needs.
• Knowledge of business drivers and the ability to stay attuned to industry changes to align activities with organizational goals.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to plan, prioritize, and adapt work to meet commitments, and to balance multiple stakeholder needs.
• Strong collaboration skills, fostering partnerships and encouraging team diversity and feedback.
• Focus on continuous process improvement, performance measurement, and accountability.

Nice to Have

• Experience in consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry and brand building.
• Fluency in data and technology tools relevant to marketing and growth initiatives.
• Experience with marketing transformation and enterprise capability projects.

Qualifications

• Educational background or formal qualifications are not explicitly specified in the description.

Benefits & Perks

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits prioritizing wellbeing, including health plans, a 401(k) with company match, flexible time off, inclusive fertility/adoption benefits.
• Fair and transparent salary ranges based on location, skills, and experience.
• Participation in incentive plans, subject to plan terms.