Director Global Strategic Marketing - Personal Care

Overview

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Director of Global Strategic Marketing to join our $600 Million+ Personal Care business. This position is a hybrid role with weekly travel to our Bridgewater, NJ location. This is a visible, significant role within the Company and commercial function and will report to the SVP and GM, Personal Care.

We are looking for a passionate, tenacious solver who loves to understand how things work and figure out how they can work better. You should be positive, constructive, and ingenious, and ready to collaborate with others who share your drive.

• 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.
• Scope of responsibilities spans strategic, commercial, and innovation.
• Strategic:
• Help shape and implement the Personal Care global strategy.
• Lead the annual strategic planning process and support Board of Directors and Investor presentations and communications.
• Identify, coordinate and recommend merger & acquisition targets for Personal Care.
• Commercial:
• Collaborate with the regional Marketing and Sales teams to realize commercial initiatives by utilizing market research, business intelligence and competitive analyses.
• Support the development of customer development roadmaps and market trends.
• Innovation:
• 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.
• Act as a key stakeholder in the innovation process (project ideation/identification, innovation pipeline management and responsibility for working with Sales and R&D to commercialize new product introductions).

• Not a people management position – this is an individual contributor role with no direct reports.
• Not an entry level position – requires solid experience within the Specialty Chemicals space.
• Not a position for someone with a marketing degree; this is a technical role for someone who has been in a technical field and then moved into B2B marketing.

• 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 a B2B market.
• Strong experience in the Specialty Materials Industry and consumer products.
• Strategic and analytical thinking skills, collaborative style, and executive presence.
• Ability to be a self-starter, work independently, and function at both strategic and operational levels.

• Advanced degree preferred.

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit  to see the innovations we offer.

At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.

Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Note:

We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.