Product Marketing Specialist

Itasca, IL (On-site)

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

Posted 2 weeks ago

Job Summary

Own and drive marketing for Hi-Cone’s flexible packaging portfolio, equipment platforms, and future innovations, shaping positioning, launches, and go-to-market strategies.

  • Lead cross-functional collaboration with Product Management, Innovation, Engineering, Sales, and Sustainability teams.
  • Develop and maintain product storytelling, literature, and digital content to grow market visibility and customer engagement.

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.

Preferred

  • Commercially Minded
  • Analytical
  • Execution Focused
  • Ownership & Initiative
  • Collaborative
  • Detail Oriented
  • Strong Communicator
  • Continuous Learner
  • Digitally Curious

Benefits

  • paid vacation, sick, holiday and parental leave

ITW

ITW (NYSE: ITW) is a Fortune 300 global multi-industrial manufacturing leader with revenue of $15.9 billion in 2024. The company’s seven industry-leading segments leverage the unique ITW Business Model to drive solid growth with best-in-class margins and returns in markets where highly innovative, customer-focused solutions are required. ITW’s approximately 44,000 dedicated colleagues around the world thrive in the company’s decentralized and entrepreneurial culture.

Founded in 1912
Glenview, Illinois, USA
20K employees (558 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$75K/yr – $95K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($85K) is in line with the median base salary for Product Marketing Specialist roles in the United States ($85K).

Product Marketing Specialist median pay in the United States

$85K/yr

Most pay falls between $76K and $93K. Based on 57 salaries.

See all ITW salaries

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
70.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.8%
Direct
43.8%
Referral
10.4%
Social
5.1%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~19.7K

Product Marketing Specialist

ITW · Itasca, IL · On-site