Director, Marketing

San Diego, CA (On-site)

$150K/yr – $180K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and lead Argen's marketing strategy, research and GTM initiatives, budgeting, and cross-functional alignment to grow brand presence in the US and international markets.

  • Shape strategy and Challenger Sale insights
  • Coordinate budget, campaigns, and cross-functional plans

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Owns marketing strategy and proactively brings recommendations and direction to the organization.
  • Conducts market research on customer needs, competitive positioning, and market pricing to inform company decisions.
  • Maintains deep working knowledge of Argen's products, product pipeline, and business development priorities.
  • Translates products into customer-facing insights and solutions in support of Argen's Challenger Sale methodology.
  • Leads customer segmentation, campaign development, and go-to-market planning, and rolls out the resulting strategies across the organization, including to the sales team.
  • Partners with sales, operations, finance, and business development to align marketing plans with commercial priorities.
  • Leads activities of the marketing department, including planning, budgeting, hiring, training, and managing department personnel and resources.
  • Manages the annual marketing budget and spend against plan.
  • Builds brand awareness and positioning across the U.S. domestic market and Argen's international dealer network.
  • Coordinates with subsidiary marketing leaders in the UK, Canada, and Germany on shared strategy and brand consistency.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, or communications, or equivalent experience required.
  • Experience in a B2B environment with recurring or subscription-based customers, building solutions for long-term, repeat buyers.
  • Dental or dental industry marketing experience strongly preferred; medical device or other B2B industry experience considered.
  • Experience with insight-led or solution selling methodologies, such as the Challenger Sale, preferred.
  • Demonstrated point of view, with a track record of bringing recommendations and constructive perspective to the team.
  • Track record of driving initiatives to completion and prioritizing effectively across competing demands.
  • Experience running a marketing team and marketing campaigns.
  • High competency in project and stakeholder management.
  • Experience developing and managing budgets, including expenditures and return-on-investment projections.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to influence sales and executive leadership.

Preferred

  • Dental or dental industry marketing experience strongly preferred; medical device or other B2B industry experience considered
  • Experience with insight-led or solution selling methodologies, such as the Challenger Sale, preferred
  • Knowledge of cGMP regulations ISO 13485, 21CFR Part 820, CMDR SOR/98-282, 93/42/EEC, RDC 16 2013, MHLW MO 169 and TG(MD)R Sch3 preferred.
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Argen Corporation

The Argen Corporation is the world’s largest manufacturer of precious dental gold alloys, leader in zirconia manufacturing, and leading innovator of digital dentistry solutions and scrap refining services. With more than 50 years serving the dental industry, Argen now distributes to more than 100 countries with subsidiaries in Canada, China, Germany and the United Kingdom. Argen enables dental labs of all sizes to integrate digital into every aspect of their workflow by offering a wide range of digitally-produced products and services. Argen is proud to be a family-owned American company that manufactures the highest quality products in the US and is dedicated to treating customers like family.

Founded in 1983
San Diego, California, USA
397 employees (28 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$150K/yr – $180K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
15 (4% of company)
Median Tenure
2.3 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
68.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$137
Traffic Source Mix
Search
32.9%
Direct
59.5%
Referral
4.8%
Social
1.5%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~397
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Director, Marketing

Argen Corporation · San Diego, CA · On-site