Segment Marketing Lead

Burlington, MA (On-site)

$148K/yr – $221K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive segment strategy by turning customer insight into growth opportunities, leading cross-functional initiatives, and accelerating demand to expand market share.

  • Define where to play and how to win for the segment
  • Lead cross-functional execution and stakeholder alignment

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • The Segment Marketing Lead is a high-impact role for a curious, customer-centric, and commercially minded leader who is energized by turning insights into action and shaping the future of a best-in-class global organization.
  • As a Segment Marketing Lead, you are the strategic owner of a market segment (e.g., pharma & biotech, academia & government, industrial & testing, etc.), responsible for identifying and accelerating growth opportunities through deep customer understanding, market insights, and cross-functional leadership.
  • In this pivotal role, you will define where to play and how to win, translating deep customer understanding and market dynamics into focused strategies that shape portfolio priorities, accelerate demand generation, and strengthen the organization’s position as a trusted industry leader.
  • You will serve as the voice of the customer across the organization, ensuring that workflows, pain points, and unmet needs are consistently reflected in value propositions, messaging, and commercial execution.
  • You will own segment-level growth objectives — including revenue growth, market share expansion, and customer adoption — and will monitor performance to proactively recommend course corrections that improve impact.
  • Partnering with Business Fields, Research and Development, Commercial, Business Development, and Strategic Accounts, you will shape innovation roadmaps and launch priorities, positioning the organization ahead of emerging market shifts.
  • A key dimension of this role is elevating the organization from activity-based marketing to customer-centric, strategy-led, outcome-driven marketing.
  • You will lead through influence, building alignment across internal business partners and leadership teams, and creating shared accountability for execution.
  • You will also define market development priorities, develop thought leadership strategies, and foster partnerships with industry associations and academic institutions to expand market influence.
  • This role requires domestic and international travel of up to 50% for internal and external engagement.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Science, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Engineering, or a related discipline.
  • 10 or more years of experience in marketing, sales, or directly relevant experience working within the specific life science segment.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and execute segment or market strategies grounded in customer insight, competitive analysis, and business priorities.
  • Proven track record of owning growth objectives — including revenue growth, market share expansion, and customer adoption — and driving measurable outcomes.
  • Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority across complex, international organizations.
  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 50% for internal and external engagement activities.

Preferred

  • MBA, MS, or PhD in a relevant discipline.
  • 3 or more years in management consulting with a focus on the life sciences or biotechnology sectors.
  • Strategic thinking and data synthesis: hypothesis-driven approach to extracting insights from complex data sets and translating them into clear, actionable strategies in ambiguous and dynamic environments.
  • Communication and stakeholder engagement: exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships across diverse internal and external audiences, including senior leadership.

Benefits

  • Benefits offered by the Company include health insurance, paid time off (PTO), retirement contributions, and other perquisites.
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Together with our colleagues, customers and stakeholders, we impact life and health with science. Before researchers can make scientific breakthroughs, they must have access to state-of-the-art tools, services and expertise to perform experiments and engineer new products. That’s where we come in. We offer one of the broadest portfolios in the industry for scientists, best-in-class products for pharmaceutical development and manufacturing, and a fully integrated service organization to support CDMO and contract testing across traditional and novel modalities. Our vision is a world where our innovative products, services and digital offerings help create solutions for people globally and a sustainable future for generations to come.The life science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, operates as MilliporeSigma in the US and Canada. Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany is a global science and technology company with around 60,000 employees in more than 66 countries. Intended only for US/CA visitors.

Founded in 1951
Burlington, Massachusetts, USA
11K employees (286 in marketing)

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