at IDEX in Northbrook, Illinois, United States
Job Description
If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.
With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses (https://www.idexcorp.com/our-businesses/business-segments/) around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.
The Director of Strategic Marketing – Agriculture will report to the President of the Agriculture Platform and have primary responsibility for developing
a robust Agriculture Platform strategy that focuses on organic as well as inorganic growth in core
business industries with a strong focus on a sustainable future. Included
in this set of responsibilities is the exploration of new market segments, business case
formulation and prioritization, and working closely with commercial leadership to complement
and augment the current portfolio of Banjo and KZ Valve products. This role has a significant responsibility in
ensuring key business targets are achieved with potential pathway to future leadership
positions.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities:
- The Director of Strategic Marketing will develop long-term growth strategies for all
business units under the Agriculture Platform to drive double digit growth, annually
- Work with the leadership team, corporate strategy counterparts, and business leads to
move forward the strategy, identify key priorities and choices to deliver as part of the business
strategy, and manage trade-offs required to realize vision
- Support high-priority areas including conducting analysis on key competitors and potential
sources of disruption; framing and structuring disparate ideas and information to make them
concrete and actionable
- Conduct both quantitative and qualitative analyses to evaluate new market opportunities for
the enterprise that extend beyond our current businesses, and develop associated business
cases and recommendations for the platform’s future
- Evaluate key organizational questions in terms of organic growth to
ensure our company is best positioned to deliver on our commitments to customers, clients,
and shareholders
- Research emerging solutions and work with internal stakeholders to determine business
rationale for adoption, potential value, and tradeoffs associated with developing new or
improved digital solutions
- Develop growth strategy and 3-year strategic plan for our multiple business segments
- Lead initiatives to drive acquisition and penetration of customers by leveraging both sales and
channel
- Make recommendations on best solutions from customer and business perspective including
content creation and end to end customer journey mapping
- Develop, implement and enforce Pricing Strategy across the Energy Platform
- Collaborate with Product Management professionals across the platform to increase expertise
centered around portfolio lifecycle management, understanding and influencing financial
outcomes and roadmap development
Miscellaneous and Other
- Working with business units to create and define ‘80’ Customer & Channel Strategies
- Apply best practices across the platform to simplify and focus strategic and tactical
efforts to maximize return on investments, with strong focus on NPD/NPI and product life cycle management
processes across business units
- Work with business units to drive segmentation across the platform
- Present on growth roadmap to ELT including CEO to drive key transformation initiatives as needed
Required Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Industrial Technology, or Engineering, or related field
- Minimum of 10+ years of experience in marketing and/or product management with
strong marketing focus required.
- Strong commercial aptitude
- Clear and concise communication skills with all levels of the organization
- Ability to lead and interact with cross functional teams and end customers via multiple
channels
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Demonstrated experience using data to driven optimization decisions
- Demonstrate a consistent, dependable, and positive work ethic
- Critical thinking and problem-solving ability: synthesize findings from analysis and draw
conclusions
- Demonstrated knowledge of key financial metrics and business case development
- Strong project management skills, solid analytical skills and attention to detail
- Willingness to travel up to 40%
Preferred Education and Experience
- Master’s in Business Administration
- Experience in market adjacency discovery and research
- Minimum of 7 years of market development management experience
- Experience in the Agriculture Sector preferred
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
- Highly curious
- Tenacity
- Strong organizational skills and follow through
- Must be able to multitask
- Advanced computer skills
- Demonstrate responsibility, respect, dependability, patience, and productivity in order
to create a positive work environment
- Ability to take analysis to diagnosis to implementation
- Problem solver with excellent technical ability
- Ability to deliver initiatives from conception through completion
Supervisory Responsibility
None
Travel
Up to 40% Travel
Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?
Total Rewards
The compensation range for this position is $134,400.00 – $201,600.00, depending on experience. This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.
Benefits Package
Our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits, 401(k) retirement savings program with company match, PTO, and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: https://www.idexcorp.com/careers/our-benefit-and-rewards/
IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws (Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled).
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Job Family: Marketing
Business Unit: Banjo
