Kimberly-Clark reviews

Kimberly Clark is better than most when it comes to promoting African Americans and people of color but in Finance they are lacking considerably. There is a clear unconscious bias towards people of color within Finance and I had a senior leader admit as much to me in a conversation. Finance is dominated by white men and there is virtually no representation at a leadership level when it comes to people of color and absolutely no representation when it comes to African Americans. There were a number of women in high level positions but they left during the restructure and were replaced with white men. Also, experience outside of KC from a Finance perspective is not valued. I applied for a job that would have been a promotion. I was told that I interviewed well but hadn't started my career at KC and therefore the role would not be offered to me even though I had several years of external experience. The role was given to a white male who was a level below me (2 level promotion for him) and the hiring manager offered a role to me reporting into the white male at a level lower than I was at. Finally, there is a lot of value placed on non value added presentations and managers and leaders that bloviate/pontificate at KC. Also simple processes at other companies are completely over complicated there. A lot of the systems are not what you would expect at a company so large. As an example, instead of using a known system like Hyperion for financial reporting, Anaplan is used which is more of data analytic software than it is a financial reporting package. Overall, if you are a minority or an external candidate at a manager level in Finance, I would avoid KC. Also, I would avoid roles that are not in a business unit. Central roles (GNW/Global Supply Chain) are not as respected.

Boss dominated culture. Workplace politics is the highest among other companies in the same industry. HR just gives all their authorization to your line manager. It has a culture that your line manager is always right. If you get an unfair treatment from your line manager, HR will not be able to help anything because the only thing they would say is to let you go to talk with your line manager. HR and your line manager would gossip about you behind close door. When you look around in the office, there would be some people talk something behind the close door and it may relate to you, your team or your colleague. If you don't like someone, you can just backstabbing them by telling make up story to their line manager. Then the gossiping process will start without you being aware or have chance to clarify anything. The senior management is also terrible. They just want to protect their status. The only thing they do is to talk about cost cutting by laying off some people and closing down some plants. They will hide everything from you. Sometimes, the media knows it even before they make any announcement within the organization. Although you might find some great colleagues here, I can feel that everyone suffer from the same fate. HR and your line manager never discuss about your career future seriously . In fact, there will be no career advancement unless they lay off some people first through the so called restructuring program. Then, there may be a new position that you can apply. All key decisions are relationship based and had been decided based on guts feeling and gossiping of few people who call themselves leader. Almost all of the senior management are pretty old from baby boomer ages. I feel that everyone want to leave the company but they just stay here because they do not get a new job yet. Team morale is currently at the lowest.