Director, Marketing - The Pink Stuff

Vernon Hills, IL (On-site)

$140K/yr – $165K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own brand strategy and go-to-market leadership with a digital-first spine, translating consumer insights into growth across channels and a prioritized portfolio roadmap.

  • Consumer learning agenda: category dynamics, macro trends, and competitive intelligence to drive actionable plans.
  • Digital-first GTM: align Ecommerce, Global, and Demand Gen to execute across paid, owned, and earned channels.
  • Portfolio, innovation, and P&L ownership: from whitespace to launch and lifecycle optimization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development of a robust consumer learning agenda grounded in category dynamics, macro trends, and competitive intelligence, translating insights into clear strategic actions.
  • Partner with Consumer Insights, Digital/Ecomm team and Category Management to identify whitespace opportunities and growth levers.
  • Lead the development of annual brand strategies and integrated marketing plans that strengthen brand equity, increase household penetration, and accelerate growth across channels.
  • Own a digital-first go-to-market approach, partnering closely with Ecommerce, Global, and Demand Generation teams to translate brand strategy into best-in-class execution across paid, owned, and earned channels.
  • Lead the development of social and digital campaigns that drive awareness, engagement, conversion, and advocacy, with strong oversight of content strategy, influencer partnerships, performance media, and ecommerce activation.
  • Collaborate with Sales to align brand strategy with customer plans, retailer media, and omni-channel activation.
  • Prepare and present best in class sales decks leveraging insightful brand story telling.
  • Lead end-to-end brand portfolio and innovation management, including whitespace identification, concept development, claims strategy, SKU optimization, pricing, forecasting, and stage-gate execution.
  • Build robust business cases: market sizing, margin analysis, forecast modeling, and 1–3 year growth plans.
  • Partner cross-functionally with R&D, Operations, Sales, Supply Chain, and Finance to bring innovation concepts to market, ensuring strong consumer relevance, commercial viability, and flawless execution.
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Carboline

Operating from a position of global leadership, Carboline is considered the standard of quality high-performance coatings, linings, and fireproofing products. For over 75 years, Carboline has combined innovative product development with technical knowledge and experience to provide superior protective coating solutions around the world.Carboline prides itself on offering a comprehensive line of coatings, linings, and fireproofing products. Our U.S. industrial service center and warehouses, worldwide manufacturing locations, and hundreds of technical sales team members located across the globe are ready to serve you.Our sales engineers match the coatings technology with our customer's needs and expectations, and confidently provide solutions that are proven and reliable. We don't recommend a product on the shelf. We work with our customers to provide the products and solutions that best fit the project or application.Our experience in doing this, coupled with the broadest product line offering in the industry, is a winning combination that keeps customers happy. Carboline's focus on performance and our wide range of market experience in various industrial and commercial markets sets us apart from the competition. If you have a problem, chances are we've solved it.

Founded in 1947
St Louis, Missouri, USA
1K employees (41 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
30.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
52.3%
Direct
36%
Referral
7%
Social
3.1%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
28 (3% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1