Director, Commercial Marketing

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$190K/yr – $220K/yrDirector/Executive7+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Own go-to-market strategy and cross-functional alignment for priority offerings and segments.

  • Translate business goals into clear marketing strategies and GTM plans.
  • 7-12+ years of B2B marketing, strategy, or commercial experience.
  • Cross-functional leadership with Sales, Brand, Content, and Demand/Performance Marketing in a matrixed environment.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate and partner with business and sales leaders, to ensure growth goals are met
  • Translate business goals into clear marketing strategies and plans
  • Prioritize marketing activities and focus areas, align resources to objectives
  • Define target segments, customer insights, and growth opportunities
  • Develop positioning, differentiation, and value propositions aligned to market needs
  • Prioritize marketing efforts based on business impact, growth potential, and strategic importance
  • Maintain focus on high-value initiatives and avoid dilution across low-impact activities
  • Partner with key stakeholders to align on strategic investment required
  • Redirect executional or lower complexity needs to appropriate marketing resources, including Product Marketing Managers and Marketing Centers of Excellence
  • Shape and own go-to-market strategies for key offerings, initiatives, and priority segments
  • Define sales plays, messaging frameworks, and program priorities
  • Ensure clarity and consistency in how the business goes to market
  • Partner closely with sales leaders to align on priorities, opportunities, and challenges
  • Translate strategy into actionable tools, narratives, and programs that support selling
  • Continuously gather field insights to refine messaging and approach
  • Orchestrate cross-functional teams and aligned support resources
  • Provide direction and guidance to Product Marketing Managers where applicable
  • Ensure clear division between strategic leadership and executional support
  • Work with Marketing Centers of Excellence (Brand, Content, Creative, Demand/Performance Marketing and Communications) to bring strategies to life
  • Brief and guide cross-functional teams to ensure execution aligns to business priorities and maintain accountability for outcomes without directly owning execution? yes

Requirements

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree. Appropriate education and/or experience may be substituted on an equivalent basis.
  • Experience: 7-12+ years of experience in B2B marketing, strategy, or commercial roles
  • Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
  • - Strong experience partnering with sales and business leadership
  • - Proven ability to translate business objectives into marketing strategies
  • - Experience working across multiple marketing disciplines (brand, content, demand generation)
  • - Commercial mindset with understanding of pipeline, funnel dynamics, and revenue drivers
  • - Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influence skills
  • - Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, cross-functional environment
  • Additional Requirements: This role includes occasional travel, typically once a quarter, based on business needs.

Benefits

  • We offer comprehensive benefits for eligible employees including medical, prescription, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement savings, paid time off, holidays and additional benefits.
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Quad

Quad (NYSE: QUAD) is a global marketing experience company that helps brands make direct consumer connections, from household to in-store to online. Supported by state-of-the-art technology and data-driven intelligence, Quad uses its suite of media, creative and production solutions to streamline the complexities of marketing and remove friction from wherever it occurs in the marketing journey. Quad tailors its uniquely flexible, scalable and connected solutions to clients’ objectives, driving cost efficiencies, improving speed to market, strengthening marketing effectiveness, and delivering value on client investments.Quad employs approximately 13,000 people in 14 countries and serves approximately 2,700 clients including industry leading blue-chip companies that serve both businesses and consumers in multiple industry verticals, with a particular focus on commerce, including retail, consumer packaged goods, and direct-to-consumer; financial services; and health. Quad is ranked as the 14th largest agency company in the U.S. by Ad Age (2023), and the second-largest commercial printer in North America, according to Printing Impressions (2023).For more information about Quad, including its commitment to ongoing innovation, culture and sustainable impact, visit quad.com.

Founded in 1971
Sussex, Wisconsin, USA
10K employees (1,327 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
55.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$6.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
34.2%
Direct
53.8%
Referral
9%
Social
1.6%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~10.2K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
676 (7% of company)
Median Career Experience
13 years
Median Tenure
9.4 years

Funding

Total Funding
$1.9B
Last Raise
$35M
Post IPO Debt, 7 months ago

Funding History

  • Aug 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $35M
  • Apr 2014
    Post IPO Debt • $1.9B

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