Vice President, Global Marketing and Strategy, Battery Materials

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Leads strategic planning process including developing and executing long range strategy/plan, conducting competitor analysis, and identifying opportunities in areas such as greenfield, brownfield investments and/or partnership/acquisition.
• Develops and executes marketing plan by leading global and regional marketing teams.
• Manages marketing communications activities by leveraging Corporate Marketing and Communications resources as well as Regional Marketing Managers.
• Owns market intelligence, mapping out & tracking competitive landscape to define the company's position and that of competitors.
• Works with Application Development and R&D to drive new product development pipeline activities from ideation through commercialization.
• Identifies future technology development, evaluates, proposes, and decides participation paths, and builds and maintains internal and external relationships to drive outcomes.
• Leads a global team, practicing Performance Based Management by coaching and developing employees, both direct and matrix reports, ensuring effective alignment with matrix functions.
• Supports efforts to implement and maintain the Responsible Care Management System in line with RC14001 requirements, as applicable.

Requirements

• Understanding of battery materials technical capabilities, applications, and customer usage.
• Knowledge of emerging trends in the battery materials markets and applications to identify new opportunities.
• Ability to communicate a clear vision, direction, and measures of success.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to diverse stakeholders to inform decision making.
• Strategic thinking in defining value creation actions.
• Makes timely, thoughtful, and high-impact decisions that deliver expected results.
• Advocates the vision and influences internal and external senior stakeholders (ExCo, customers, government officials).
• Skilled people leader capable of creating and maintaining high-performing teams.
• MBA (strongly preferred); Bachelor degree in science or engineering.
• 15+ years of strategy and/or marketing experience with a strong track record of leadership and results.
• Ability to travel globally and work with international teams operating in different cultures and market conditions.

Nice to Have

• Strong leadership and team development skills.
• Experience in the battery materials industry or related technical fields.

Qualifications

• MBA (strongly preferred).
• Bachelor degree in science or engineering.
• 15+ years of strategy and/or marketing experience with leadership and results.

Benefits & Perks

• Dynamic, flexible, team environment that promotes collaboration and meaningful work.
• Opportunities for personal development and skill growth.
• Flexible work environment allowing autonomy over schedule.
• Highly competitive benefits packages within regional operations.
• Culture of open and direct feedback to support success.
• Supportive team impacting company talent and professional growth.