Strategic Marketing Manager

☞ Solvay

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更新日: 26-11-2025

位置: Brussels Brussels Capital

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General Information

Location:
  • City: Brussels
  • Country: Belgium
  • Region: Europe

Job Category:Marketing and Sales
Job Type:Regular
Type of Contract:Permanent
Working time:Full-time
Work schedule:Day shift
Solvay is a science company whose technologies bring benefits to many aspects of daily life. With more than 24,100 employees in 64 countries, Solvay bonds people, ideas and elements to reinvent progress. The Group seeks to create sustainable shared value for all, notably through its Solvay One Planet plan crafted around three pillars: protecting the climate, preserving resources and fostering better life. The Group’s innovative solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices, health care applications, water and air purification systems. Founded in 1863, Solvay today ranks among the world’s top three companies for the vast majority of its activities and delivered net sales of €10.2 billion in 2019. Solvay is listed on Euronext Brussels (SOLB) and Paris and in the United States, where its shares (SOLVY) are traded through a Level I ADR program.

Solvay is a market leader in hydrogen peroxide, both in market share and technology. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is used mainly by the paper industry to bleach pulp. Its properties are also of interest to many markets, such as chemicals, food, textiles, and the environment.

Job Overview and Responsibilities

Reporting to the Peroxides Head of Strategy & Business Development, the Strategic Marketing Manager will be essential to support the growth ambition of Solvay Peroxides GBU.


MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES :

  • Analyze competitor and customer insights to identify markets and segments where company core competencies can be deployed and support strategic and commercial planning efforts accordingly
  • Drive market intelligence activities, including
    • Competition, technologies, markets, suppliers, customers
    • Development of tools to meet internal customer needs and drive productivity gains (e.g. central databases, knowledge management, …)
    • Supporting internal customers to get access to databases, reports, …
    • Present relevant topics in intelligence network calls
    • Engage with external associations
  • Detect new market and product opportunities. Study the competition (benchmarking) and rely on studies, which he/she has previously ordered and coordinated, to gather information on his/her market, analyze and anticipate customer needs and expectations. Make practical recommendations
  • Develop an in-depth market understanding in order to forecast supply-demand and future GBU performance
  • Drive market intelligence globally on competition, technologies, markets, suppliers, customers
  • Conduct In-depth market or strategy analysis in selected market segments (using primary and secondary research data) to give cohesive and actionable business recommendation.
  • Conduct research and analysis to support the GBU/BU in evaluation potential acquisitions, partnerships, investments, licensing and other strategic growth opportunities
  • Support Business Development initiatives
  • Drive or support strategic projects, including market entry, customer pulls, M&A, investments/ divestments, the latters in collaboration with Corporate Strategy
  • Support strategic planning processes
  • Manage an international team, global scope
  • Support and make practical recommendations during yearly commercial negotiations taking into account supply demand evolution

KEY CHALLENGES :

  • Working with a cross-functional, cross-cultural and international team
  • Driving impact without direct authority
  • Ensuring “sustainability” of projects results within the GBU, creating strong buy-in from teams, as well as simple tools & processes to support new methods.

KEY CONTACTS OF THE STRATEGIC MARKETING MANAGER :

  • GBU regional commercial teams, Finance
  • GBU Leadership Team
  • Corporate Marketing Excellence and Strategic Marketing team
  • Corporate strategy
  • External: experts, customers

Education and Experience

  • Master degree preferably in business or chemical engineering
  • Experience in either B2B Sales & Marketing or strategy consulting. Combination of both would be ideal.
  • +/- 8 years experience
  • Experience in a chemical company is a plus

Skills

  • Strong communication skills, both verbally and written
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, including problem structuring and synthesis
  • Project management skills
  • Good understanding of Microsoft Excel (advanced data analysis) and PowerPoint
  • Strong team player, ability to work collaboratively in a multi-cultural and international environment
  • Output-driven, quick, flexible and organized, able to deliver on time and under pressure
  • Fluent English is mandatory, other languages (Chinese, French, Spanish, German) is a plus

Additional Information

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最后期限: 10-01-2026

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