Strategic Marketing Manager - Water Solutions

Emploive; Hanover Park (IL); On-site; USD 82,000 - 153,000; Full time

Job summary

Pentair is hiring a Marketing Manager - Commercial Water Filtration to join the Hanover Park, IL team. You will develop brand strategy, translate category strategy into actionable go-to-market plans, and drive commercial impact across customer segments and channels.

You will work closely with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Legal, and Finance to ensure clear positioning and competitive messaging. The role emphasizes customer insight, VOC synthesis, and enablement assets, with about 25%

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business, or related field; MBA or advanced degree a plus.
• 6-8 years of experience in B2B marketing, strategic marketing, product marketing, or category marketing, preferably in an industrial or manufacturing environment.
• Proven ability to develop market and segment insight and translate it into effective positioning, sales enablement, and GTM execution.
• Ability to lead people, ideas, and strategies with an influencing and collaborative leadership style.
• Experience in brand strategy development, market insights and performance analysis, and new product development.
• Experience with market activation planning, including identification of customer needs, creation of programs and tactics satisfying unmet voice of customers, customer segmentation, product application, and storytelling solutions.
• Strategic problem solver with strong business acumen, analytical thinking, and demonstrated ability to develop, implement and execute strategic marketing plans.
• About 25% travel nationally is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of Pentair’s Filtration brand strategy to ensure strong positioning, meaningful value proposition, clear product differentiation, and brand messaging.
• Translate strategy into execution and measurable impact by owning customer segment‑level go‑to‑market plans, sales playbooks, and enablement aligned to category and commercial priorities.
• Develop and maintain category and customer segment intelligence, including market structure, customer segment insights, competitive analysis, and Voice of Customer (VOC) synthesis to inform category strategy and go‑to‑market priorities.
• Own customer segment‑level value propositions, messaging, and commercial claims, partnering closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Legal to ensure positioning is differentiated, accurate, and defensible.
• Lead commercially facing content strategy for assigned categories and customer segments, ensuring content supports priority use cases, buyer roles, and selling motions across direct and channel environments.
• Collaborate with the Group Marketing Leader and Demand Generation team to develop cohesive, multi‑media campaigns, integrated with sales activity consistent with business channel strategy and growth initiatives.
• Lead the development of channel customer insights, which translate directly into opportunities to grow channel programs.
• Work closely with Sales and Product Management to identify and address gaps in positioning, messaging, packaging, pricing, or enablement that limit commercial effectiveness within priority customer segments.
• Ensure continuous development, implementation and execution of customer‑facing tools and sales enablement assets including, but not limited to, dealer/distributor programs, channel programs, training, dealer portal content, and co‑op programs.
• Support product and portfolio launch, coordinating cross‑functionally to ensure customer‑segment‑specific readiness, adoption, and commercial impact through Phase 0 NPI involvement.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with cross‑functional partners, translating insight and strategy into structured guidance, execution plans, and recommendations that support decision‑making and field effectiveness.
• Model culture and talent development in alignment with Pentair’s Win Right Values and Leadership Model, fostering a high‑performance, inclusive culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, and continuous development while modeling the behaviors expected of Pentair leaders.

Skills

Brand strategy

Go-to-market

Market insights

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in marketing

MBA

Job description

Pentair is hiring a Marketing Manager - Commercial Water Filtration to join the Hanover Park, IL team. You will develop brand strategy, translate category strategy into actionable go-to-market plans, and drive commercial impact across customer segments and channels.

You will work closely with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Legal, and Finance to ensure clear positioning and competitive messaging. The role emphasizes customer insight, VOC synthesis, and enablement assets, with about 25%