EMEA Regional Marketing Manager

Join our dynamic team as a Regional Marketing Manager for the EMEA region for the Cleaning Goods and Personal Care sectors. We're seeking a seasoned professional, ready to drive regional marketing strategies and foster growth across our diverse product portfolio. If you're passionate about making an impact and leading in a fast-paced, evolving market, this is the opportunity for you.

At Nouryon, our global team takes positive action every day, to reach higher collectively and individually. We create innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers to answer society’s needs – today and in the future.  

We are looking for team members who bring ideas forward, champion others and work together to do better. Does that sound like you?

About the job

Essential qualifications include experience in the (specialty) Chemicals industry, within a Business-to-Business environment, with a preference for familiarity in the Cleaning Goods and/or Personal Care sectors.

The Regional Marketing Manager is responsible for developing and implementing the regional marketing plans to achieve revenue, pipeline and gross margin objectives. This role is responsible for leading marketing initiatives in the region including new product introductions, services, pricing, and promotional initiatives for sales in the allocated region. You drive the creation of value for the BL and contribute to the realization of the global business strategy.

In your future role as Regional Marketing Manager EMEA you will

•    Develop a regional marketing plan, which is in line with the global strategy for each market segment to deliver the segment/product line strategy 
•    Keep up to date with market trends, competition, dynamics and maintain industry contacts 
•    Drive the quarterly / monthly pricing guidance process (including market floors and target prices) for the sales team and manage exemption requests
•    Identify new customer needs and provide input for new product development. Develop and execute regional launch plans for new products 
•    In collaboration with the technical service and global marketing team, refine value propositions for key products for each market segment and develop selling tools 
•    Build, maintain and leverage key external relationships across the region
•    Define regional communication and branding needs and collaborate with marketing communications team to drive execution
•    Be an active member of the Global Marketing team and support the Strategic Global Marketing Managers for the relevant segments. Leverage opportunities, trends, marketing tools across regions
•    Drive channel management, including distribution strategy / excellence / performance tracking and ensure execution thereof together with Sales Leaders
•    Develop in-depth understanding and knowledge of the market, industry dynamics and competitive positioning to effectively drive growth. Transform insight and opportunities from market, competition and industry trends and detailed understanding of the value chain into concepts to enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty
•    Translate ideas into concepts and marketing plans to fulfil new customer needs and give input for new product development and validate value creation at customer
•    Track the performance of NPI / Vitality Index sales and execute plans to drive progress
•    Conduct Voice of Customer and other market research as needed
•    Identify and coordinate all regional trade shows, events, seminars, etc. in the region in close collaboration with the Marketing Communications team 
•    Develop content for sales tools and presentations that effectively communicate value propositions to customers
•    Monitor competitive landscape and create and keep market intelligence up to date (incl. substituting and competing products, technologies), in collaboration with BI function. 
•    Plan and execute specific regional customer communication material, coordinate and participate in trade shows, exhibitions and industry groups
•    Act as role model for corporate values, Nouryon business principles and Business standards both inside and outside the Business Line. Act as a role model and drive a safe behavior both individually and for colleagues

We believe you bring

•    Bachelor’s or Masters’ Degree in Marketing, Business, Chemistry or a related field of study
•    A minimum of 10 years of prior experience in combination with sales, marketing or product management roles.
•    Experience in the B2B chemicals industry.
•    Strong business and financial acumen
•    Fluency in English is required, additional languages are preferred
•    Comfortable working across global cultures
•    Communication and interpersonal skills, listening, writing, verbal, influencing, entrepreneurship, result-oriented, negotiation, and proven problem-solving abilities
•    Ability to travel 20% of the time.

We offer you

An international environment with a highly motivated, successful team of genuinely supportive and friendly colleagues who value strong personal relationships.

•    An employment contract for an indefinite period. 
•    A competitive gross annual salary. 
•    A variable bonus. 
•    Other benefits

Have we got your interest?

This is a permanent position on a full-time basis, reporting to the Vice President Sales, Home & Personal Care EMEA. Preferably the person will be based in the Netherlands, but we are also open to candidates located in other European countries where Nouryon has an office, like Switzerland.

Please apply via our online recruitment system. We will not accept applications via e-mail. Once it's with us we will review to see if we have a match between your skills and the role! For more information about our hiring process, visit: nouryon.com/careers/how-we-hire/  

We look forward to receiving your application!

We kindly ask our internal candidates to apply with your Nouryon email via Success Factors. 

About Nouryon

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If you’re looking for your next career move, apply today and join Nouryon’s worldwide team in providing essential solutions that our customers use to manufacture everyday products such as personal care, cleaning, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. Our employees are driven by the wish to make an impact and actively drive positive change. If that describes you, we will gladly make way for your ambitions. From day one we support you with your personal growth, through challenging positions and comprehensive learning and development opportunities, in a dynamic, international, diverse, and proactive working environment.

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Contact

For additional information about the vacancy please contact Diana Martinez, Talent Acquisition Partner via diana.martinez@nouryon.com  

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