Director - Strategic Marketing

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$180K/yr – $220K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 6 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own and drive the commercial strategy and portfolio for the company, shaping long-term growth, value messaging, pricing discipline, and go-to-market execution across sales, product, and finance. You will lead cross-functional initiatives, prioritize investments, and align stakeholders to grow revenue, market share, and profitability.

  • Define and execute the product portfolio strategy and GTM for new and existing offerings
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Product, Finance to optimize pricing, messaging, and pipeline
  • Establish KPIs, analytics, and governance to inform decisions and measure impact

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define the overall marketing strategy and long-term vision, align the company growth objectives and market opportunities
  • Articulate compelling value proposition for core products and solutions, ensuring clear differentiation for owned market.
  • Own and manage the full product portfolio strategy, ensuring alignment with the business trends, market trends and customer needs
  • Ensure alignment with product development and marketing communication of value messaging across brand, product, and channel strategies to drive customer engagement and conversion
  • Oversee lifecycle management of all products in your category, including positioning, messaging, launches, enhancements and phase-outs.
  • Lead cross-functional collaboration with sales, product development, and operations to optimize portfolio performance and profitability
  • Analyze market data, competitive landscape, and customer insights to inform portfolio prioritization and investment decisions
  • Develop and execute go-to-market strategies for new and existing products to drive revenue growth and market share
  • Collaborate with sales to align prospecting strategies including prospects where we have key differentiation and the right to win
  • Lead the alignment of the go-to-market strategy approach across sales to ensure pipeline opportunities fit the strategic growth needs

Requirements

  • Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in commercial strategy, business development, sales operations, marketing strategy, market intelligence, corporate strategy, or related commercial leadership roles.
  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced business degree strongly preferred
  • Minimum of 5–7 years of experience leading global or multi-regional commercial strategy initiatives and cross-functional teams.
  • Demonstrated success developing and executing growth strategies that drive revenue expansion, pipeline generation, market penetration, customer acquisition, and share-of-wallet growth.
  • Deep understanding of market segmentation, customer targeting and demand generation in complex B2B environment
  • Strong experience in pricing strategy, margin management, and value based selling approaches
  • Experience conducting market assessments, competitive intelligence analyses, customer research, and business opportunity evaluations to support strategic decision-making.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives involving Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Finance, and regional business leaders.
  • Experience developing and implementing performance metrics, analytics, dashboards, and reporting frameworks to measure commercial effectiveness and business outcomes.
  • Strong financial and business acumen with the ability to translate data and insights into actionable strategies and measurable results.
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ProAmpac

ProAmpac is a global manufacturer of flexible film, foil, and fiber packaging solutions built on material science. We provide creative packaging solutions, industry-leading customer service and award-winning innovation to a diverse global marketplace. ProAmpac’s approach to sustainability - ProActive Sustainability - provides innovative sustainable flexible packaging products to help our customers achieve their sustainability goals. We are guided in our work by five core values that are the basis for our success: Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, Involvement, and Impact.

Founded in 2015
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
1.7K employees (113 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
30.3K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$317
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.1%
Direct
48.7%
Referral
7.5%
Social
5.1%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
63 (4% of company)
Median Tenure
2.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 5 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2021
    Private Equity

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