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Position Summary & Scope

Reporting to the Vice President of Industrial Technologies, the Strategic Marketing Manager for Industrial Technologies plays a significant role in driving the Vantage strategy for specialty chemical ingredients into the Industrial Markets. This includes supporting strategy development and implementation to drive growth, enhance market position, and improve profitability across targeted Industrial chemical segments. This role requires deep market knowledge, customer insights, competitive analysis, and collaboration with cross-functional teams including sales, Business development, R&D, and supply chain to align strategic objectives with business outcomes. This role does not have direct reports.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

+ Conduct detailed market analysis to identify growth opportunities for the Industrial Technologies business unit.

+ Track industry trends, competitor activity, regulatory developments, and voice of customers (VOC) to align with overall Vantage and Industrial Technologies’ strategy.

+ Define market segmentation, targeting, and product positioning for key Vantage products.

+ Develop and refine long-term strategic marketing plans for assigned product portfolios.

+ Lead go-to-market strategies for new product launches and regional market entries.

+ Create customer-facing content including presentations, value propositions, and marketing collateral based on market insights for sales enablement.

+ Establish and cultivate relationships with Performance Solutions / specialty industry community, associations, and key opinion leaders to support the Industrial Technologies growth.

+ Industry events & trade-show attendance / leadership within industry.

+ Utilize CRM to manage leads, write customer call reports, document and foster opportunities, and maintain key customer information as part of a market intelligence accrual process.

+ Ability to create content and present to different levels within the organization.

Note: The duties listed above are not all inclusive and may be subject to periodic updating or revision.

Education & Experience

Education:

+ Bachelor’s degree in chemistry or engineering, business, or marketing with a strong understanding of the Specialty Chemicals.

Experience:

+ 5+ years’ experience in strategy, marketing, customer / market facing roles, driving specialty chemicals growth in Industrial applications.

+ Demonstrated experience driving successful new business growth, managing multiple projects, with the ability to understand needs, develop long-term plans, identify opportunities and win new business.

Knowledge, Skills, & Talents

Detail the specific competencies, attributes, and skills needed for success in this role. Provide a bullet-point list of desired qualities, such as technical skills, interpersonal abilities, and any unique talents relevant to the position.

+ Demonstrates strong knowledge of specialty chemicals and market segments, successfully driving new business growth in Industrial Technologies

+ Proven track record of ability to drive Growth through new market development, new leads, and growing the Industrial market.

+ Energetic self-starter with a strong presence and the ability to work effectively in a driven environment; detail- and results-oriented.

+ Ability to work cross functionally with commercial, R&D, product and asset management teams.

+ Outstanding verbal, written, multi-tasking, and presentation skills.

+ Strong experience in utilizing world class CRM systems as daily management tool and central intelligence systems.

Working Conditions

+ Travel up to 25% of the time

Pay and Benefits

The estimated base pay range for this position is: $115,000 - $175,000 annually. Actual pay will be determined based on education, certifications, experience, qualifications, skills and geographic location. This position is eligible to participate in a short-term incentive program.

Vantage offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees, including:

+ Medical, HSA, dental, and vision.

+ FSA (limited purpose, dependent care, and commuter/parking)

+ Life and AD&D insurance

+ Accident, hospital indemnity and critical illness insurance

+ Short- and long-term disability

+ EAP, identity theft protection

+ Paid time off, Parental Leave

+ 401(k) with company match

Equal Employment Opportunity

Vantage is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected category.

About Vantage

Vantage provides natural solutions to our customers’ technical performance and marketing needs through a unique combination of chemistry, application expertise and service. Underpinned by our broad portfolio of formulations, ingredients and actives that are built on a backbone of sustainable oils, fats and their derivatives, Vantage targets selected markets and applications including personal care, food, surface treatment, agriculture, pharma, and consumer and industrial performance. Vantage is headquartered in Deerfield, IL., operates in 11 countries worldwide and employs more than 1,000 talented professionals focused on delivering exceptional customer experiences with every interaction.

We are a dynamic people-centered organization where you’ll be part of a collaborative global team. Embracing our cultural diversity, we learn from each other to constantly improve, adapt and iterate. We value the voices and talents of our colleagues, empowering them to drive their unique ideas to completion. We’re convinced that exceptionally motivated employees produce outstanding results and we celebrate them by fostering a culture of recognition, development, learning, excellence and shared achievement. Most importantly, we know you’re going to like it here. For more information visit: vantagegrp.com or LinkedIn/vantage.

Vantage is a leading supplier of naturally derived specialty ingredients and formulations that cater to the evolving needs of industrial and consumer markets. Through our chemistries, our customer focus and our global footprint, we are Enabling Tomorrow's Solutions Today.

As a company on the move, you’ll be working as part of a collaborative team and getting to know the cultural diversity of our world. We learn from each other to constantly improve, adapt and iterate. We value the voice and talent of our colleagues by empowering them to drive their unique ideas to completion. We’re convinced that exceptionally motivated employees produce outstanding results. Most importantly, we know you’re going to like it here.