Global Portfolio Marketing Manager

At Ecolab, making the world a cleaner, safer place is our business. We are committed to providing our customers with the most effective and efficient cleaning & disinfection, food safety, and infection control programs available.

Ecolab is a company committed to growth, and we believe that our Marketing Department is one of the keys to our success. As a Marketing function, we are committed to driving growth while providing individuals with a range of developmental career opportunities. The members of our Marketing team have an opportunity to help our customers meet their goals, differentiate Ecolab from our competition and impact the achievement of our aggressive growth targets.

Ecolab Pharma & Personnal Care (PPC) is focused on developing and commercializing cleaning & disinfection solutions for Global manufacturers of Pharmaceutical and Personal Care, Health and Beauty products. Ecolab Life Sciences provides differentiated solutions along with a wide variety of technical and validation services.

Current Opportunity

We are seeking a Global Portfolio Marketing Manager (f/m/d) to build, drive and execute the portfolio strategy of cleaning and disinfection (CIP-COP) solutions targeting the pharmaceutical manufacturers. This position will report to the Global Marketing Lead for Pharma portfolio and can be based in France, UK, Germany or Spain.

How you'll make an impact:

• Own, manage and develop a full portfolio of compelling solutions to achieve sales and profit targets.
• Develop the Marketing Plan for your portfolio, with a global view, and ensure the execution.
• Support Segment strategies and drive product launches including among others, product-level forecasting, product availability in collaboration with Supply Chain and R&D, messaging.
• Develop in-depth customer, competitive, and market knowledge. Communicate business insights, market needs and opportunities to develop short-term and long-term new product development strategies
• Drive customer penetration strategy with our pharma CIP/COP customers, collaborating across Ecolab to accelerate program selling, TVD and best-in-class sell.
• Support development of innovation pipeline for future growth (near term and long-term projects) in response to customer needs, competitive offerings and changes in market and business priorities.
• Leverage strong project management skillset to lead successfully strategic projects (including product development, regulatory driven projects) and facilitate cross-functional communication.
• Collaborate with the System Implementation Team, Supply Chain and Planning to manage product reference modifications, phase-in and phase-out and organize internal & external communication.
• Develop with Marcom the general product communication plan, develop the messaging and enable the sales team.
• Train Corporate Account and Field Sales Team on product and product-related topics.
• Participate in ongoing customer interactions that contribute to business insights and results.
• Organize and execute detailed and up-to date competitive intelligence.
• Analyse data from multiple channels, develop and track success metrics for your portfolio in collaboration with your counterparts in the Portfolio Team and Finance. 

Qualifications and skills: 

• Post-graduate degree in Marketing or in science (chemistry, microbiology).
• 8+ years of work experience in the pharmaceutical industry managing a portfolio. Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturers and experience with their corporate or plant level decision makers.
• Strong project management skillset and communication skills.
• Proficient in English and data analysis.
• Proficient with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Digital Tools.
• European/Global experience in highly regulated markets.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization. Experience in developing content and presenting to sales teams and divisional management.
• Efficiency in reporting and synthetizing information from different sources.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, setting vision and strategy, planning, critical thinking, orchestrating cross-functionally, overseeing multiple project elements and proven track record of results.

About Ecolab: 

At Ecolab, we prioritize our talent-first philosophy by creating the most capable and diverse team to excel at our nearly three million customer sites. Building on a century of innovation, our 48,000 associates help deliver comprehensive science-based solutions, data-driven insights and world-class service to advance food safety, maintain clean and safe environments, and optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies and sustainability for customers in the food, healthcare, life sciences, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world. Our solutions not only enhance operational efficiency but also contribute to sustainability and public health, making a positive impact on the world. We are committed to eliminating unnecessary complexities and embracing a beginner's mindset, continuously seeking new perspectives and innovative solutions to stay ahead in a rapidly changing world. 

Ecolab’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) reflects our longstanding value of working together to integrate diverse perspectives to challenge ourselves, reach our goals and do what’s right. 

Apply today and join one of the most ethical companies with over a hundred years of history. 

Join Ecolab and help us protect what’s vital.  

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