Product Marketing Specialist

Itasca, IL (On-site)

$75K/yr – $95K/yrMid Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and drive Hi-Cone’s marketing for the current and future packaging portfolio, including positioning, launches, and sustainability reporting, while coordinating with cross-functional teams to grow market visibility and customer engagement.

  • Lead product positioning and launches
  • Oversee digital marketing and branding across channels

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the marketing owner for Hi-Cone’s current flexible packaging portfolio, equipment platforms, and future innovation pipeline.
  • Develop and maintain product positioning, messaging, value propositions, product literature, presentations, and customer-facing content that support commercial growth and market differentiation.
  • Partner with Product Management, Innovation, Engineering, Sales, and Business Development teams to communicate product capabilities, customer benefits, sustainability advantages, and business value.
  • Conduct market assessments, competitive reviews, and portfolio analyses to identify opportunities to strengthen positioning, improve differentiation, and support growth objectives
  • Develop commercialization and go-to-market support materials for new packaging innovations, and equipment platforms.
  • Create product launch materials, customer presentations, sales tools, internal training resources, and supporting content that drive market awareness and product adoption.
  • Maintain consistency in product messaging and positioning across customer-facing materials, digital platforms, commercialization initiatives, and sales tools.
  • Own Hi-Cone’s global digital marketing presence, including website content, product pages, email campaigns, social media channels, and digital communications.
  • Ensure Hi-Cone’s current flexible packaging portfolio, equipment capabilities, sustainability performance, and future innovations are accurately represented across digital and customer-facing channels.
  • Develop and maintain product, sustainability, commercialization, and innovation content that increases market visibility, strengthens customer awareness, and supports commercial growth objectives.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Sustainability, Environmental Science, Packaging, Engineering, Communications, or a related field.
  • Minimum 3-5 years of experience in product marketing, commercialization, sustainability reporting, environmental data management, or a related field.
  • Experience supporting product positioning, product launches, commercialization initiatives, and go-to-market programs.
  • Experience managing or coordinating Product Carbon Footprint reporting, Life Cycle Assessments, sustainability questionnaires, ESG-related reporting activities, or environmental data management programs.
  • Experience developing customer-facing product content, product literature, digital marketing content, and commercialization materials.
  • Experience managing website content, email campaigns, social media, and digital marketing initiatives preferred.
  • Experience coordinating with Product Management, Innovation, Engineering, Sustainability, Sales, Legal, and Operations teams.
  • Experience with product naming, trademark management, brand standards, or related activities preferred.
  • Strong organizational, project management, analytical, and communication skills.
  • Packaging, manufacturing, beverage, sustainability, or other technical B2B industry experience preferred.

Benefits

  • In addition, our benefits include paid vacation, sick, holiday and parental leave.
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Hi-Cone

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Hi-Cone is a leading global supplier of ring carrier multi-packaging systems for the Beer & Non-Alcoholic Ready to Drink (NARTD) beverage markets, providing sustainable secondary packaging solutions to major Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies. We have set ambitious goals to become 100% recyclable, biodegradable or compostable by 2025. Our aim is to educate consumers on how to reduce plastic consumption and how to recycle all aspects of the circular economy; an economic system aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources. We partner with consumers, retailers and industry experts to make tangible and impactful changes to advance the circular economy through our ongoing innovations in packaging design and material development. Hi-Cone is a part of ITW, a global, Fortune 200, organization which offers its business units unparalleled access to state-of-the-art testing facilities and knowledge-sharing. With a multinational network of resources at its disposal, Hi-Cone continues the decades-long tradition of developing customer-focused innovations and commercial solutions.Visit www.ringrecycleme.com for more carrier and recycling information.

Founded in 1962
Itasca, Illinois, USA
135 employees
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$75K/yr – $95K/yr

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Marketing Team

Median Tenure
13.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
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Traffic Signals

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43.9%
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25.1%
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Current headcount: ~135
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Product Marketing Specialist

Hi-Cone · Itasca, IL · On-site