Full-Time

Marketing Manager

CSA Group

CSA Group

1,001-5,000 employees

Develops standards and certifies products globally

No salary listed

Plattling, Germany

Hybrid

Hybrid work options; travel up to 20% for meetings and events.

Category
Growth & Marketing (2)
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Required Skills
Market Research
Communications
Marketing
Data Analysis
Requirements
  • University degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Communications or equivalent relevant experience in Sales, Marketing, or Communications
  • Fluent English required; Excellent German written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong experience in marketing and communications project management and execution
  • Experience working in global, cross-functional teams, with the ability to collaborate effectively across regions and cultures
  • Proven project management capabilities
  • Ability to travel up to 20% annually for company and regional meetings, conferences, and related activities
  • Continuous monitoring of marketing trends, tools, and best practices, proactively recommending initiatives to enhance team knowledge, capabilities, and overall marketing effectiveness
  • Understanding of industry trends, marketing approaches, and best practices
  • Ability to communicate customer strategic priorities through engagement with sales teams and stakeholders
  • Ability to identify data and tool gaps; provide recommendations to improve insights and enable data-driven decision-making
  • Lead the development of annual strategic marketing plan for the assigned business unit
  • Manage marketing budgets, projects, tactics, and support materials required to meet commercial unit objectives
  • Partner with content marketing teams to support sector initiatives and develop customer-specific executions to drive category growth
  • Utilize multiple research sources to evaluate marketing plan performance and identify new opportunities
  • Lead marketing engagement programs and trade activities across various formats
  • Analyze ROI for all customer marketing activities and identify improvement opportunities
Responsibilities
  • Develop a deep understanding of customer strategic priorities through ongoing engagement with sales teams and key stakeholders.
  • Build strong business partnerships to align customer objectives with internal strategic priorities, resulting in comprehensive and actionable marketing plans.
  • Lead the development of the annual strategic marketing plan for the assigned business unit.
  • Manage marketing budgets, projects, tactics, and support materials required to meet commercial unit objectives.
  • Partner with content marketing teams to support sector initiatives and develop customer‑specific executions to drive category growth.
  • Utilize multiple research sources (syndicated, custom, category, customer) to evaluate marketing plan performance and identify new opportunities.
  • Identify data and tool gaps; provide recommendations to improve insights and enable data‑driven decision‑making.
  • Continuously monitor emerging marketing trends, tools, and best practices, proactively recommending initiatives to enhance team knowledge, capabilities, and overall marketing effectiveness.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert on industry and consumer insights by monitoring market activity, research, reports, and customer dialogue to support education and engagement efforts.
  • Continuously monitor and develop a deep understanding of the TIC market, translating insights into actionable recommendations to support regional business growth.
  • Lead marketing engagement programs and trade activities (events, campaigns, promotional items, merchandising) across various formats
  • Analyze ROI for all customer marketing activities and identify improvement opportunities with a continuous‑improvement mindset.
Desired Qualifications
  • MBA preferred but not required
  • 6–7+ years of industry and/or B2B experience in category management, brand management, trade marketing, or sales is considered an asset
  • Experience working in global, cross-functional teams, with the ability to collaborate effectively across regions and cultures

CSA Group develops and maintains more than 3,000 standards across 57 areas and offers Testing, Inspection, and Certification to help products reach global markets. Standards are published in print and electronic formats via an online store and guide quality, environment, safety, risk management practices. The Testing, Inspection, and Certification division audits and tests products to verify compliance with standards, enabling regulatory clearance and market access in Canada, the U.S., Europe, and beyond. By combining standards development with third-party conformity assessment, CSA Group serves a wide range of clients and aims to help organizations meet recognized standards and gain worldwide access to markets.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

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Founded

1919

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Subscription-based standards access models create recurring revenue beyond one-time purchases.
  • Vertical-specific certification bundles for renewable energy and EV manufacturing expand TAM.
  • Real-time standards monitoring platform differentiates value proposition and reduces compliance gaps.

What critics are saying

  • ISO harmonization across borders displaces CSA standards in emerging technologies.
  • UL's MRA enables competitors to certify Canadian products without CSA.
  • Declining legislative references to CSA standards erodes mandatory adoption revenue.

What makes CSA Group unique

  • Dual revenue model combining standards development and testing/certification services.
  • Mutual Recognition Agreement with UL enables cross-border certification efficiency.
  • Over 3,000 standards across 57 areas serve diverse industrial sectors.

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Flexible Work Hours

Life Insurance

Private Medical Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

Enhanced Family Friendly Leave

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TORONTO – CSA Group has announced the opening of an accredited, special-purpose laboratory dedicated to testing and certifying the safety of medical-grade PPE. Until now, there have been no domestic providers of testing and certification services for medical-grade PPE.