Strategic Marketing Manager (Pharma Ingredients)

Croda; Goole; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision

Generous PTO

401K Match

Wellness Reimbursement

Parental Leave

Career Development

Life and AD&D Insurance

Disability insurance

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Croda is seeking a Strategic Marketing Manager to shape the growth of Pharma Ingredients. This senior global leadership role requires aligning Marketing, Research & Technology, and Commercial teams to ground portfolio decisions in market insight and long-term value.

You will lead a diverse portfolio of ~500 products, driving approximately £250 million in revenue, with a focus on market-led innovation and differentiated positioning across a global matrix.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead a global strategic marketing agenda aligned with business strategy and long-term growth priorities.
• Serve as the voice of the customer and market, using insight, market intelligence, and competitive analysis to influence decisions.
• Translate market dynamics into clear choices for differentiation, growth, margin expansion, and resource allocation.
• Improve decision-making through data-driven marketing and AI-enabled approaches.

Skills

Strategic marketing

Portfolio management

Global B2B

Commercial acumen

Team leadership

Job description

Strategic Marketing Manager, (Pharma Ingredients)

Shape Market-Led Growth Across Pharma Ingredients

Croda is a purpose-led FTSE 100 organization, delivering smart science to improve lives. As we strengthen our position across pharmaceutical markets, we are seeking a Strategic Marketing Manager to shape the future growth of the Pharma Ingredients business.

Operating at the center of the organization, you will align Marketing, Research & Technology, and Commercial teams so that innovation and portfolio decisions are grounded in market insight and focused on long-term value. You will lead strategic marketing across a diverse portfolio of approximately five hundred products within a business segment, generating approximately £250 million in revenue.

This is a senior global leadership role for a commercially minded leader who can bring structure to complexity, influence across a matrix, and turn customer and market insight into sharper portfolio choices, differentiated positioning, and sustainable value creation.

Why Join Pharma Ingredients Now?

Pharma Ingredients is at a pivotal stage in its evolution. As a significant global business within Croda, we are strengthening how a diverse portfolio of pharmaceutical excipients, bioprocessing reagents, and formulation technologies, are shaped, prioritized, and positioned. With strong margins, ambitious growth expectations, and continued investment in market-led innovation, this is an opportunity to help define the next phase of sustainable growth for Pharma Ingredients.

This role offers the opportunity to strengthen how a significant global portfolio is shaped, prioritized, and positioned while building the frameworks and market-insight capability needed for the next phase of growth.

What Success Looks Like

Strategic Marketing & Market Leadership

• 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.

Portfolio Strategy & Value Creation

• 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.

Innovation Governance & Commercial Alignment

• 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.
• Ensure technical capability and development of resources are directed toward the strongest market opportunities.
• Improve organizational focus and consistency in how innovation priorities are selected, governed, and brought to market.

First-Year Build Agenda

• Align the existing innovation pipeline to the updated business strategy.
• Improve visibility of portfolio performance, gaps, and investment choices.
• Build stronger organizational capability to generate, share, and apply market insights.
• Create practical frameworks, processes, and ways of working rather than relying on an established model.

Core Capabilities

Strategic Perspective: Connect market dynamics, portfolio choices, innovation priorities, and investment decisions, to sustain long-term growth.

Curiosity: Explore unmet needs, competitive shifts, and emerging tools to improve insight and identify future opportunities.

Delivery: Convert strategic marketing principles into measurable business outcomes and return on investment.

Working Together: Align Marketing, Research & Technology, Commercial, and regional stakeholders around shared choices and execution.

Authenticity: Lead with credibility, low ego, and transparency while building trust across a global matrix.

Adaptability: Maintain strategic focus while operating effectively in ambiguous and evolving environments.

Experience & Expertise

• 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.

Role Scope

Global leadership responsibility for strategic marketing, portfolio direction, innovation prioritization, and market insight across Pharma Ingredients. The role partners closely with Research & Technology, Sales, Product Management, and regional teams and are expected to build capability, frameworks, and consistent execution across the organization.

What We Offer

The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary and benefits package including:

• 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

Additional Information

This is a site-based role located in Cowick, England.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the hiring process or experience any issues with our online application process, please email [e-mail].

Why Croda?

At Croda, our purpose is Smart science to improve lives. As a global leader in specialty ingredients and life sciences innovation, we partner with customers to solve complex challenges that improve health, sustainability, and quality of life around the world.

Our success is built on the expertise of our people and a culture grounded in our values of Responsible, Innovative, and Together. We believe diverse perspectives, scientific curiosity, collaborative leadership, and practical execution create the conditions for sustainable growth and meaningful impact. Joining Croda means becoming part of a business where your work will directly contribute to customer success, business performance, and innovations that improve lives globally.