Strategic Marketing Manager - Data Center

Charlotte, NC (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the data center vertical go-to-market, from strategy to enablement, shaping messaging and buyer engagement for hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise customers.

  • Growth ownership: define the vertical playbook and create assets to accelerate strategic accounts, regions, and partners.
  • Market intelligence: track trends, competitive activity, VOC insights, and cross-functional feedback to influence product and messaging.
  • Sales enablement: equip Sales with vertical-specific tools, pitches, and battlecards to improve win rates and field confidence.

Job Description

Responsibilities: Lead the go-to-market strategy for Aalberts IPS’ high-growth data center vertical, building on a strong foundation to accelerate market expansion and share. Develop and refine the Aalberts value proposition for hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data center customers. Prioritize strategic accounts, regions, and partners based on opportunity size and market potential. Identify trends, technologies, and competitive activity shaping the data center landscape. Build relationships with specifying engineers, contractors, distributors, OEMs, and owner/developers across the data center ecosystem. Conduct VOC sessions to uncover customer needs, pain points, and innovation opportunities. Represent Aalberts at industry events, tradeshows, customer visits, and technical discussions. Support early-stage project conversations with an understanding of cooling systems, hydronic loops, and mechanical infrastructure common in data centers. Equip Sales and rep agencies with vertical-specific tools, presentations, positioning strategies, and objection-handling guidance. Provide project-level insight and expertise to improve win rates and customer confidence. Train internal teams on data center personas, terminology, market structure, and system-level design fundamentals. Participate in customer-facing opportunities as the subject-matter expert. Collaborate with the Strategic Marketing Director to maintain the Data Center Vertical Playbook, including personas, messaging, segmentation, and asset roadmap. Contribute to case studies, white papers, design guides, landing pages, and vertical-focused content. Ensure alignment between messaging, campaigns, and technical solutions. Support development of competitive battlecards and market comparison tools. Work with Product and Engineering to ensure Aalberts products such as press, balancing valves, grooved systems, and butterfly valves are aligned with data center needs. Identify product gaps and future development opportunities related to cooling technologies and mechanical distribution. Support pilot projects and testing efforts for new system solutions. Provide insight to help shape the long-term data center product roadmap.
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Aalberts integrated piping systems

Aalberts Integrated Piping Systems develops and produces connectors, metal and plastic pipes, valves, and fastening technology for the distribution and control of liquids and gases. Our technologies enable customers to work quickly and reliably in a simple and efficient way.These bespoke systems are applicable for key verticals as residential commercial, industrial, and Utilities, and are designed and developed by our team of in-house engineers. This complete piping and valve solution combined with our services are available through different channels. At Aalberts Integrated Piping Systems, we have just one objective: we help our customers to get the job done.

Founded in 1928
Hilversum, North Holland, NLD
1K employees (40 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
683
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24.6%
Direct
51.2%
Referral
8.9%
Social
14%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
27 (3% of company)