Sr. Marketing Manager F&B

Ecolab; Oegstgeest; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Ecolab is seeking a Senior Marketing Manager - F&B for North/Benelux to lead marketing across the Netherlands and Belgium while guiding UKI, North, and France teams. The role drives integrated value propositions spanning sanitation, process optimization, water reuse, energy efficiency, and food safety in a complex B2B environment.

You will lead campaigns, collaborate with sales, and influence pricing, strategic accounts, and new solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of marketing, commercial, or business development experience in a B2B environment.
• Strong understanding of food & beverage market preferred.
• Proven success driving growth, innovation commercialization, and strategic marketing initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Identify growth opportunities, white-space opportunities, and market trends within the cluster.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Data-driven

Project management

Change leadership

Portfolio management

Communication

Commercial acumen

Financial acumen

Job description

The Senior Markeing Manager - F&B - North/Benelux has a double hatted responsibility, being the marketing lead for the Netherlands and Belgium as well as leading the marketing managers for UKI, North and France (coach/player principle). Combined this is a cluster with a lot of large customers representation across all segments.

• Ort: Oegstgeest, Südholland, Niederlande

The North/Benelux Lead must be able to think beyond traditional cleaning and sanitation programs and understand how customers operate across the full production environment. The role requires the ability to develop integrated customer value propositions that connect:

• Cleaning and sanitation performance
• Process water optimization
• Wastewater treatment and discharge management
• Water reuse and sustainability initiatives
• Energy efficiency and operational productivity
• Food safety, quality, and compliance outcomes
• Digital monitoring and performance optimization

The successful candidate will be able to engage customers at both operational and strategic levels, helping position FBU as a partner that improves the overall performance and sustainability of food and beverage manufacturing operations.

Responsibilities

Growth & Commercial Impact

• Identify growth opportunities, white-space opportunities, and market trends within the cluster.
• Drive demand generation and pipeline creation initiatives in partnership with sales teams.
• Support commercial planning, pricing initiatives, strategic account programs, and new solution launches.
• Monitor business performance and marketing ROI across markets.

Customer & Market Engagement

• Deeply understand customer needs, industry trends, regulatory developments, and competitive dynamics.
• Partner with Corporate Accounts and field sales teams to support strategic customers and key growth initiatives such as ABM.
• Represent the voice of the customer in European marketing planning processes.

Portfolio & Innovation Execution

• Lead deployment of Global and European innovation programs, strategic campaigns, and digital solutions.
• Collaborate with Segment Marketing and Global teams to adapt value propositions and content for local markets.

Skills & Competencies

• Strategic thinking and Customer-centric mindset
• Leadership and talent development
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Commercial and financial acumen
• Data-driven decision making
• Change leadership and organizational influence
• Project and portfolio management

Experience

• 8+ years of marketing, commercial, or business development experience
• Strong understanding of food & beverage market preferred
• Proven success driving growth, innovation commercialization, and strategic marketing initiatives
• Experience working within matrix organizations and cross-functional environments in a B2B context

VORTEILE, DIE WIR BIETEN

Ecolab ist bestrebt, umfassende und marktgerechte Leistungen anzubieten, um den Bedürfnissen unserer Mitarbeiter und ihrer Familien gerecht zu werden. Wir bieten Leistungen, um die Gesundheit und das Wohlbefinden unserer Mitarbeiter zu unterstützen, wie z. B. Gesundheits- und Abwesenheitsrichtlinien. Wir bieten auch Leistungen, die das finanzielle Wohlergehen unserer Mitarbeiter fördern sollen, einschließlich kurz- und langfristiger finanzieller Anreize sowie Alterseinkommen und -planung. Spezifische Angebote können je nach Standort variieren.

About Ecolab

At Ecolab, we prioritize our talent-first philosophy by creating the most capable and diverse team to excel at our nearly three million customer sites. Building on a century of innovation, our 48,000 associates help deliver comprehensive science-based solutions, data-driven insights and world-class service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, and optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, life sciences, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world.