City of Ashland Kentucky · 5 days ago
Director Global Strategic Marketing - Personal Care
US-NJ-VIRTUAL LOCATION
Full-time
Hybrid
Director/Executive
10+ years expAshland Specialty Ingredients is a leading global specialty chemicals company, and they are seeking a Director of Global Strategic Marketing for their Personal Care business. This role involves driving strategic initiatives, collaborating with marketing and sales teams, and managing innovation processes to enable profitable growth within the division.
Government Administration
Responsibilities
Serve as a key member of the Personal Care senior leadership team and share responsibility for division-wide business priorities
Work closely with the global Personal Care general manager to implement and drive the Personal Care strategy
Identify, develop, and drive key strategic initiatives to enable profitable growth for the Personal Care business
Help shape and implement the Personal Care global strategy
Lead the annual strategic planning process and support Board of Director and Investor presentations and communications
Identify, coordinate and recommend merger & acquisition targets for Personal Care
Collaborate with the regional Marketing and Sales team to realize commercial initiatives by utilizing market research, business intelligence and competitive analyses
Support the development of customer development roadmaps and market trends
Partner with the regional Marketing team and Technology team across five areas of innovation: (1) new project ideation, (2) project pipeline management, (3) new product introduction sales performance, (4) technical service projects and (5) management of customer briefs
Collaborate with regional Marketing on business case development and manufacturing strategies
Key stakeholder in the innovation process (project ideation / identification, innovation pipeline management and responsible for working with Sales and R&D to commercialize new product introductions
Qualification
Required
A minimum of a Bachelor's degree in a technical field (science, math or engineering)
10+ years in a strategic and/or technical role influencing commercial and innovation in B2B market
Strong experience in the Specialty Materials Industry and consumer products
Strategic & analytical thinking skills, collaborative style, and executive presence
Ability to be a self-starter, work independently, and function at both strategic and operational levels
Preferred
Advanced degree preferred
Benefits
Industry competitive salary and benefits
Pay-for-performance incentive plans
Company
City of Ashland Kentucky
Ashland is part of the "metro triangle" that includes Ironton, Ohio and Huntington, West Virginia.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase