UK Marketing Manager

PPG; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading coatings company is seeking a UK Marketing Manager to lead the deployment of its Automotive Refinish business strategy. You will manage local marketing efforts, ensuring collaboration with sales and technical teams, while understanding market trends. The ideal candidate has a degree and over 10 years of experience in strategic marketing. This role offers the opportunity for hybrid work arrangements.

Benefits

Opportunities for growth

Comprehensive employee benefits

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level.
• More than 10 years of experience in strategic marketing at a managerial position in a matrix organization.
• Product marketing background.

Responsibilities

• Lead the deployment of PPG Refinish strategy across products.
• Manage local marketing team and partner with sales and technical teams.
• Understand local market trends to provide insights for decision-making.
• Work with main customers and market players as local marketing leader.
• Collaborate with central product management to improve the product portfolio.
• Promote Digital Colour Solutions and oversee projects.
• Design and monitor promotional programs to increase customer loyalty.

Skills

Strategic Marketing

Product Marketing

Team Management

Education

Degree level education

Job description

UK Marketing Manager

PPG IndustriesRemote worker / Hybrid (Stowmarket)

You will lead the deployment of our Automotive Refinish business strategy across our products, including Collision, CT/LIC, Digital Colour and Sundries, at the country/subregion level. You will lead the local marketing team and cooperate with the sales and technical organisation to ensure successful implementation of strategic goals in local markets.

You will report to the Product & Segment Director, EMEA.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy Deployment: Lead the deployment of the PPG Refinish strategy across Collision, CT/LIC, Digital, and Sundries products, ensuring agreement on country-specific goals, in collaboration with the Country Refinish Director. Manage local marketing budget.
• Team management and local collaboration: Manages local marketing team and partners with local sales, technical, and training teams to lead fast and successful deployment of the strategy.
• Market Intelligence & Data Consistency: Understands local market (competition, trends, customer needs), to lead implementation and provide relevant insights to central marketing to support informed decision-making.
• Partner for main customers and market players: Works together with main customers and market players (associations, media, influencers). Represent PPG as local marketing leader.
• Product Management Support: Collaborate with central product management to improve the product portfolio for customer needs and market reach, ensuring competitive pricing product management.
• Digital Colour & Equipment Projects: Promote and oversee Digital Colour Solutions Value propositions, ensuring agreement on market demands and increasing sales.
• Promotional Programs and Communication: Design and monitor promotional programs and communication activities to increase customer loyalty and sales, while supporting the sales team with marketing tools and presentations to highlight PPG's competitive advantages.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level.
• More than 10 years of experience in Strategic Marketing at a managerial position in a matrix organisation.
• Product marketing background.

About us:

Here at PPG we make it happen, and we seek candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our values, with the commitment and drive to strive today to do better than yesterday – everyday.

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We partner with customers to create mutual value.

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We trust our people every day, in every way.

We make it happen.

We run it like we own it.

We do better today than yesterday – everyday.

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Benefits will be discussed with you by your recruiter during the hiring process.

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Our employee benefits programs are designed to support the health and well‑being of our employees. Any insurance coverages and benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.