Global Market Leader - Personal Protection

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The Global Market Leader (GML) – Personal Protection serves as the global cross-functional segment team leader and is responsible for ensuring the team has an integrated and executable strategy, with the necessary resources and organizational capabilities needed to deliver on the segment’s financial commitments in current and future periods.  The GML is accountable for the segment’s annual revenue, profitability, and working capital targets, as well as the 5-year growth strategy aimed at protecting and growing Nomex® and Kevlar® share in global thermal, arc, and cut protection markets.  The GML is expected to support critical business priorities and cross-functional initiatives sponsored by the Nomex® and Kevlar® Business Operating Teams and reports directly to the Nomex® Global Business Director.

The GML manages and coaches five Regional Market Leaders and three Market Development Leaders and is responsible for planning, directing, and implementing all Marketing functional activities, including: market trends, competitive landscaping, value chain, needs-based customer segmentation, and value pricing analysis.  The GML is also accountable for the segment’s inputs to the Demand step within the Integrated Business Planning Process (IBP).  The GML leads the effort to drive alignment between Sales, Technology, Product Management, and Supply Chain functions to define future portfolio offerings needed to capture growth in core and emerging markets and is responsible for identifying the go-to-market business model that optimizes the segment’s revenue growth, profitability, and cash efficiency. 

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for segment’s annual revenue, profitability, and working capital targets
• Complete ownership of segment’s Demand inputs within IBP, execution, and 5-year strategic planning processes
• Defines new growth areas and capabilities need to protect and grow market position
• Defines product portfolio and price strategy needed to achieve growth targets and works closely with Product Management to balance current vs future portfolio needs
• Accountable for Innovation-led growth targets, results, and ROI of allotted resources
• Drives continuous improvement of market and competitive intelligence collection and data management
• Work closely with Marketing Communications to develop promotional strategy and prioritize resources to maximize ROI

Desired Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with MBA, or advanced degree in relevant field, preferred
• 7+ years of experience in Marketing, Sales or relevant functional equivalent
• Functional expertise in strategic marketing tool kit
• Demonstrated knowledge of underlying drivers of segment profitability, including price, ingredient cost, and asset utilization
• Deep understanding of working capital implications driven by product, customer, source plant, and MTO/MTS mix
• Excellent leadership, management, facilitation, and problem-solving skills
• Experience in developing and deploying project best practices, policies, procedures, and processes
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and proven ability to work effectively with a global organization through cross-functional partnerships
• Experience at working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential

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