Sr. Marketing Manager

Ash Ind France SAS

**Sr. Marketing Manager - EMEA Region, Personal Care**

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Sr. Marketing Manager - EMEA Region to join our Ashland EMEA business. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the Personal Care team. This position will report to the General Manager, PC, EMEA.

**The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following**:

- Work closely with the EMEA general manager to implement and drive the Personal Care strategy in the EMEA region
- Responsible for delivering on specific financial targets versus business plan
- Scope of responsibilities span commercial, innovation and operational:

- Commercial:

- Price setting for existing and new products
- Collaborate with the Sales team to realize commercial initiatives related to new product wins, share gains, pricing and sales pipeline management
- Tracking and reporting on business performance and sales activities
- Innovation:

- Five areas of responsibility: (1) new project ideation, (2) project pipeline management, (3) new product introduction sales performance, (4) technical service projects and (5) management of customer briefs
- Lead and partner with other regional marketing directors on new product introductions and the innovation process.
- 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)
- Operational:

- Collaborate with Product management, supply chain and operations on key supply projects in the region
- Active member in S&OP meetings

**In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following**:

- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (science, math or engineering)
- 10+ years in a technical role influencing innovation, as well as robust B2B experience
- Strong experience in the Personal Care Ingredients Industry
- Experience leading a team and driving strategy development and adoption
- Travel up to 40% in EMEA (mostly Europe) and occasionally to USA
- Ability to be a self-starter, work independently, and function in ambiguity

**The following skill sets are preferred by the business unit**:

- Minimum bachelor’s degree
- Advanced degree preferred

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, customers 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 has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

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.