At Nouryon, our global team of Changemakers 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:

The purpose of this role is to leverage our collective understanding of industry drivers along with Nouryon’s capabilities to develop a compelling vision for the future of Nouryon’s business in the Institutional and Industrial Cleaning market. This includes the identification of needs, the establishment of goals along with the plan to meet them. Further, the role co-owns the innovation portfolio with their R&D counterpart and is the leading provider of marketing and business support for our R&D investments. This is an onsite position and can be located at any of the following locations: Amersfoort (the Netherlands) or Radnor, PA; Houston, TX; Bridgewater, NJ; or Chicago, IL.

In your future role as Global Strategic Marketing Manager-Cleaning, you will be responsible for:

• The development and rollout of a compelling, global strategic marketing plan for the global personal care market
• Ensuring the regional marketing plans align with the global strategy and are clear and actionable.
• Developing and maintaining a robust innovation project portfolio including working with their R&D counterpart to prioritize and select new projects and encouraging the submission of new product ideas from all functions in the organization.
• Supporting innovation efforts by directly or indirectly providing and updating the business case and launch plan for projects in the portfolio.
• Monitoring competitive, customer and market developments and adjusting strategic initiatives accordingly in a timely fashion
• Leading a global cross-functional team (MMT) that shares regional market insights, leverages successes and learnings and ensures overall alignment.
• Interact and build relationships with participants across the value chain to understand issues in order to gain insights and identify opportunities
• Serve as an informal global ambassador of Nouryon’s values, behaviors and company brand.
• Partner and liaise with relevant industry consortiums.
• Supporting on-going mergers and acquisitions activities.
• Conducting market research and competitive analysis.
• Developing value propositions and go-to-market strategies for new and existing applications
• Developing and refine business cases for innovation projects including concept statement development, addressable market definition, and building an economic model.
• Developing thorough launch packages for new products including promotional materials, establishing availability of samples, and price guidelines.
• Attending trade shows and industry conferences and serve as a company representative for select interviews and presentations.
• Providing input to marketing communications team on promotional tools and activities.

We believe you bring:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Marketing (MBA candidates encouraged to apply)
• 5-10 years of relevant segment/marketing experience
• Extensive knowledge of the personal care market is preferred
• Experience in sales is preferred
• Fluency in English is required, and skills in other relevant languages a plus
• Experience in the chemicals industry
• Comfortable working across global cultures
• Communication and interpersonal skills, listening, writing, verbal, influencing, entrepreneurship, result-oriented, negotiation, proven problem-solving abilities, and strong business acumen
• Project management capabilities and skills

Good to know:

This is a permanent position on a full-time basis
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 offer you

At Nouryon, we provide a great job and friendly coworkers, plus benefits in addition to salary. Nouryon Netherlands offers an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) called Life Check. This program offers you and your household a wide range of support for your physical and mental health.


For this role a STI (Short Term Incentive) is applicable.

About Nouryon

We’re looking for tomorrow’s Changemakers, today.


If you’re looking for your next career move, apply today and join Nouryon’s worldwide team of Changemakers 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


If you have any questions about the recruitment process or your application or need assistance, please contact: : job.sponselee@nouryon.com.


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