Strategic Marketing Manager (Pharma Ingredients)
Croda
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Job summary
Croda is seeking a Strategic Marketing Manager to shape the future growth of the Pharma Ingredients business from its Princeton, NJ site. You will lead strategic marketing across a broad portfolio of ~500 products, translating market insight into differentiated positioning and sustainable value creation.
The role requires global leadership, aligning Marketing, R&T, and Commercial teams to drive investment decisions and portfolio choices with long-term value.
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.
- History of influencing portfolio, innovation, and investment decisions across a complex global matrix organization.
- Commercial acumen with focus on differentiation, sustainable growth, margin expansion, and ROI.
- 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 capability to operate in ambiguous, evolving environments.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead a global strategic marketing agenda aligned with business strategy and long-term growth priorities.
- Translate market dynamics and unmet needs into clear choices for differentiation and growth.
- Strengthen decision-making through data-driven marketing and AI-enabled approaches.
- Shape and evolve the global product portfolio with structured planning and performance visibility.
- Align R&T, Sales, Product Management, and regional teams around market-led priorities.
Skills
Job description
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Connect market dynamics, portfolio choices, innovation priorities, and investment decisions, to sustain long-term growth.
Explore unmet needs, competitive shifts, and emerging tools to improve insight and identify future opportunities.
Convert strategic marketing principles into measurable business outcomes and return on investment.
Align Marketing, Research & Technology, Commercial, and regional stakeholders around shared choices and execution.
Lead with credibility, low ego, and transparency while building trust across a global matrix.
Maintain strategic focus while operating effectively in ambiguous and evolving environments.
- 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.
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.
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
This is a site-based role located in Princeton, NJ.
Annual salary range for this position is $137,000 to $228,000.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the hiring process or experience any issues with our online application process, please email candidate@croda.com.
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.
Croda recognizes employees as our strength and the diversity they bring to our workforce are linked to our ongoing success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate based on any protected attribute, including age, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability.
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