Global Strategic Marketing Manager

Jobinhalt

Global Strategic Marketing Manager Semiconductor & High Temperature
Remote (Europe/ US)

Your role as Global Strategic Marketing Manager:
This new role is an individual contributor role, reporting to the Global Segment Director in London for the Semiconductors & High Temperature business. It’s a remote working role, based in Europe or USA.
You will be responsible for coordinating the Semiconductor & High Temperature market understanding globally. This to be done by proposing and enabling strategic direction within the Semiconductor & High Temperature segment. As well as providing competitive analysis, market insights and by partnering with the segment leader to establish a strategic global market positioning.

The successful candidate has thorough experience in this specialized field and will engage with key external experts to establish deep understanding of the global Semiconductor & High Temperature market, its upcoming trends, and the key customers and competitors thoroughly. With this knowledge, the Strategic Marketing Manager will propose how Morgan should respond and make business cases for new product development endeavours, product positioning activities, technology licensing, and possible acquisitions in this space. You will be accountable for fuelling the business intelligence needed for the long-term strategy of the Semiconductor & High Temperature segment globally, building business cases to justify investments and R&D activities, and establishing our product positioning and value messaging.
This is a highly visible role with close cooperation with the Senior Management Team.

The role is part of the Semiconductor & High Temperature segment for the Electrical Carbon Global Business Unit. The Semiconductor & High Temperature market segment encompasses, but is not limited to Ion Implantation, SiC wafer production, Space vehicle launch, High Temperature insulation, Graphite specialty.

VITRU| International Executive Recruitment is exclusively assisting Morgan Advanced Materials to recruit the best candidate for this crucial role.

What you need to do:

• Maps out market understanding for the Semiconductor & High Temperature global segment.
• Gains deep insights and understanding of key application and customers to construct sound business strategy.
• Actively builds relationships with customers and key external experts to build understanding.
• Maps out the competitive landscape.
• Long term strategy planning.
• Establishes product positioning, branding strategy and value proposition, and establishes the core communication messaging. Works alongside the separate global marketing communications team who sets this message into motion.
• Conducts VOCs and plays the role of ‘architect’ in order to design what our customers need into our products, services and offerings.
• Explores new applications within the segment and proposes new product concepts through the stage gate process.
• Builds go to market strategy, planning and execution in close collaboration with the Sales team for the global segment.
• Does market research and builds market intel documentation to support strategic decisions, like CAPEX investment.
• Uses our commercial tools such as CRM, BI QlikView, Sales Matrix, Market Maps, Negotiations and Value-Pricing tools to project long term position.
• Partners effectively with the commercial leaders by open and transparent communication, expectation setting, common processes and review cadence: e.g. Segment leader, Global Marketing Communications, New Product Development Director.

What you need to bring:

• Exposure to the broader Semiconductor and /or High temperature market, through direct work experiences and deep expertise in the segment.
• 5+ years’ experience in strategic marketing, or new business development for technology companies.
• MBA or equivalent (preferable).
• Multilingual ability would be an advantage.
• Management consulting experience is preferred.

Core Competencies:

• Strategic thinking - thinks long term, takes data driven decisions, influences stakeholders effectively to drive change.
• Client focus and a passion for market understanding.
• Innovation focus and acumen.
• Continuous Improvement focused.
• Explores, embraces, initiates, owns, and effectively leads change.
• Leads by example.

What’s in it for you:

• Morgan offers you a challenging position with good career prospects in a fast-growing international company.
• Very competitive remuneration package.
• Interesting bonus scheme.
• Remote working policy.
• Working for a fast-growing and successful company with a lot of possibilities to explore and grow.

Organisation:
Morgan Advanced Materials is a company which manufactures specialist products, using carbon, advanced ceramics and composites. The company is headquartered in Windsor, United Kingdom, and has 85 sites across 30 countries, around 7500 employees and a revenue of around £ 910 million.
The Electrical Carbon business is one of the 5 Business Units of Morgan Advanced Materials and develops and manufactures a wide range of electrical carbon brushes and collectors, brush holders, slip rings and linear transfer systems.
The Semiconductor and High Temperature segment is part of the Electrical Carbon Business Unit. For the Semiconductor part Morgan produces a range of industry-leading carbon and porous/non-porous specialty graphite products for use within diverse electrical applications including those in the semiconductor and LED sectors. For the High Temperature part Morgan produces a wide range of graphite products such as casting die, resistance heating elements, rods and tubes.
Morgan’s products are engineered for specific customer applications and they are often required to operate in harsh or extreme environments. Electrical Carbon’s main markets are rail, industrial drives, power generation, iron and steel, mining and wind. The business’s core strength is its longstanding materials and applications experience and its ability to engineer appropriate, reliable solutions for individual customer requirements.

How to apply:
If you are interested and you meet all the above requirements please send your English resume via the apply button to VITRU, The European Executive Recruitment Firm. For more information about this position, please contact Guy Laeven at VITRU via +31 6 19 79 80 68 (www.vitru-hr.com).

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