Key Account Executive

Key Account Executive, Professional - Midlands/North West Area

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. 

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

Excited yet?

You should be! Not only do our brands already have a rich heritage but fuelled by increasing brand investments and strong product innovation, we also have bold plans to further accelerate growth over the coming years.

Accelerate Your Career with a Market-Leading Brand

This isn’t just another job—it’s a career-defining opportunity to step into a role with real impact, high rewards, and a clear path to progression.

Are you ready to take your career to the next level in a dynamic, high-impact role? We’re looking for a Key Account Executive to join our successful, fast-paced team.  This is a unique opportunity to play a critical role in accelerating the team’s impact on the business while developing your career within a world-class organisation.

Why Join Us?

✔ Industry Leadership – Be part of a globally recognised brand with a reputation for excellence.

✔ Career Growth – Develop your career in an environment that values ambition and nurtures talent.

✔ High Rewards – Competitive salary plus OTE upto 50% of basic, market-leading pension, and full corporate benefits.

✔ Autonomy & Impact – Work with high-value accounts where your contribution directly drives business success.

✔ Supportive Culture – Join a collaborative, high-performing team where your ideas are valued.

✔ Tools for Success – Full on boarding training package, company car and full benefits plan to ensure you have everything you need to excel.

The Role

• Collaborate with Key Account Management: Work closely with the team to identify key end user sites for acquisition, penetration, and retention.

• Coordinate Customer Trials: Organise and manage on-site trials to demonstrate the benefits of Kimberly-Clark solutions compared to competitors.

• Prepare and Present Proposals: Develop product proposals and present them to key customer personnel to secure new business.

• Monitor and Retain Key Sites: Identify and regularly check in on key end user sites to ensure retention.

• Hybrid and Face-to-Face Engagement: Utilise technology to maximise working time and travel regularly to visit customer sites in person.

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Use data to identify “at-risk” sites and new penetration opportunities.

• Report Performance: Provide updates to the Key Account Management team on end user site performance, maintaining accurate records in the Customer Resource Management system.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to gain rapid experience in commercial sales while learning from experienced Key Account Managers. You'll work across multiple customers and segments in the Midlands and North of England, focusing on winning with consumers and the market, all while prioritizing safety, mutual respect, and human dignity.

About You

• A results-driven professional with a passion for building relationships.

• Experience in B2B sales - does not have to be industry related

• Skilled at influencing stakeholders and driving commercial success.

• Motivated by growth, both professionally and financially.

• A team player who thrives in a fast-moving, high-performance environment.

Ready to make a move? Apply now and be part of something bigger.

Total Benefits 

We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance.  Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme. 

Certain benefits, such as flexible work schedules and parental leave, can be tailored to meet specific individual needs, giving our employees the flexibility to manage their commitments inside and outside of work. We are proud to be rated as a top 100 workplace for working mothers for two years in a row.  

To Be Considered  

Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will then review your application and follow up with you if you seem like a great fit for this role 

The Legal Bit!

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Kimberly-Clark is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Primary Location

United Kingdom- Flexible Location

Additional Locations

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time