Strategic Marketing Manager (Pharma Ingredients)

Goole, North Lincolnshire, UK (Unknown)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and lead a global strategic marketing agenda, translating market insights into differentiated growth strategies and a disciplined portfolio and innovation governance.

  • Define market-driven portfolio priorities and investment decisions
  • Align R&T, Sales, Product Management and regional teams around market-led priorities
  • Leverage data-driven and digital tools to improve decision making

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Define and lead a global strategic marketing agenda aligned with business strategy and long-term growth priorities.
  • Function as the voice of the customer and market, using customer insight, market intelligence, and competitive analysis to influence strategic and investment decisions.
  • Translate market dynamics and unmet needs into clear choices for differentiation, growth, margin expansion, and resource allocation.
  • Strengthen decision-making through data-driven marketing and emerging digital and AI-enabled approaches.
  • Shape and evolve the global product portfolio across focus for this role on medium to long - term.
  • Establish structured portfolio planning and performance visibility, identifying portfolio gaps, health, and future growth opportunities.
  • Translate technical capabilities into clear, differentiated value propositions that resonate with customers and support revenue and margin growth.
  • Ensure portfolio choices balance customer value, strategic fit, investment requirements, and commercial return.
  • Take ownership of innovation-pipeline governance and prioritization, enabling disciplined investment decisions and commercially viable outcomes.
  • Align Research & Technology, Sales, Product Management, and regional teams around market-led innovation priorities and execution.

Requirements

  • Significant strategic marketing and/or portfolio management experience in a global B2B environment.
  • Experience in specialty chemicals, life sciences, pharmaceutical markets, or another complex technical sector is strongly preferred.
  • Proven success shaping complex product and innovation portfolios, and translating market insight into actionable growth strategies.
  • History of influencing portfolio, innovation, and investment decisions across a complex global matrix organization.
  • Commercial acumen with demonstrated focus on differentiation, sustainable growth, margin expansion, and return on investment.
  • Experience coaching and developing high-performing teams and influencing stakeholders who may not report directly to the role.
  • Ability to combine customer insight, competitive intelligence, data-driven marketing, and emerging digital tools to improve decisions.
  • Resilience and organizational capability to operate effectively in an ambiguous, evolving environment.

Preferred

  • Experience in pharma ingredients or pharmaceutical markets strongly preferred.
  • Experience leading across a global matrix organization.
  • Cross-functional collaboration experience (R&T, Sales, Product Management, regional teams).
  • Ability to leverage customer insight, competitive intelligence, data-driven marketing, and digital tools.

Benefits

  • Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, available immediately.
  • Generous PTO
  • 401K Match
  • Wellness Reimbursement
  • Parental Leave
  • Career Development
  • Company paid and voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability
  • Paid Holidays
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Croda

LUV Infinity Group is an exciting UK based umbrella company for a multitude of brands, ranging from nightclubs, bars to restaurants all over the United KingdomLUV Infinity Group has a firm Impression on the UK Nightlife and hospitality industry with our venues bringing thousands of smiles to customers faces every day since 2009; and we only continue to expand and grow today.We pride ourselves on thinking outside of the box, being innovative within our ideas & providing the best quality product across each and every diverse brand that we have created.Focusing at the heart of our business, our people; we believe a successful business begins with the people who operate it & we continually reinvent the wheel when it comes to what makes us good employers – this is what drives us.

Founded in 2009
Bristol, England, GBR
31 employees (4 in marketing)

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (10% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
709

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
425M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$18.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39.5%
Direct
31.4%
Referral
5.8%
Social
4%
Paid
5.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~31
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Strategic Marketing Manager (Pharma Ingredients)

Croda · Goole, North Lincolnshire, UK · Unknown