Marketing Manager Additives Europe

Date: 1 Dec 2024

Location: Hazelwood, DER, GB, DE56 4AN

Company: Lubrizol Corporation

About Lubrizol  
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.  

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognise unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life. 

Job Title: Marketing Manager

Job Location: Hazelwood

Job type: Permanent

Type of role: Hybrid

 

Join Our Thriving Team at Lubrizol as a Marketing Manager Additives Euope

Unleash Your Potential. At Lubrizol we're transforming the industry and looking for exceptional talent to join us on this journey. If you are ready to join an international company with talent around the world, and want to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

 

What Will Be Your Environment:

This role is based at the Center of Excellence in Hazelwood, Derbyshire, and will report to the regional marketing manager, Europe.

 

What You'll Do:

As a Marketing Manager you will be responsible for working closely with the Europe regional business and sales teams for Lubrizol Additives to develop, execute and measure marketing strategies that inform, inspire, and engage our internal and external customers whilst aligning to Lubrizol’s purpose, strategy, and values.

This role will closely collaborate with the wider global Marketing Communications team on the regional execution of marketing plans, ensuring alignment with regional teams on the representation of Lubrizol in our key markets, and enhancement of our media and PR strategies. The successful candidate must have a proven ability to develop and execute on multi-platform marketing strategies, manage marketing plan execution and project budgets, and experience working across regional and global teams.

 

Responsibilities:

 

  • Developing marketing strategies: Create, implement and execute comprehensive marketing plans that support Lubrizol Additives business areas as well as customer initiatives in Europe, aligned with global marketing objectives.
  • Content creation and management: Create engaging and localized content for various marketing channels, including social media, websites, blogs, and email campaigns. Adapt global content to fit the local market and cultural nuances. Develop concepts that convert highly technical and scientific features of our products into understandable and meaningful benefits.
  • Apply marketing tools and techniques to advise and help customers identify ways to improve their marketing mix to achieve their business targets.
  • Brand management: Ensure consistent brand messaging and visual identity across all marketing collateral, both regionally and globally. Collaborate with global teams to maintain brand guidelines.
  • Media relations: Build and maintain relationships with local media outlets and journalists to secure coverage and press releases. Coordinate with global PR teams to ensure consistent messaging and maximize media exposure.
  • Event management: Plan and execute regional marketing events, trade shows, and conferences, including logistics, booth design, collateral creation, KPI setting, and post-event evaluation. Collaborate with global teams for international events.
  • Digital marketing: Develop and implement digital marketing strategies, including SEO, SEM, social media advertising, and email marketing campaigns. Monitor digital analytics and optimize campaigns for maximum ROI.
  • Stakeholder collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as product management, sales, technical, regional and global marketing teams and marketing communications leadership, to align marketing strategies and ensure consistent messaging.
  • Performance reporting: Provide regular reports on marketing communication activities, campaign performance, and ROI to regional and global stakeholders.

 

Skills That Make a Difference:

  • Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in a marketing, sales, or commercial/ product management experience. Ideally both in B2C and B2B environments.
  • Lubricant industry experience and/or OEM knowledge is advantageous.
  • Must be fluent in English.
  • Extensive experience in project management and marketing plan development and execution.
  • Ability to interact with diverse groups of people, develop strong networks and build credibility within the organization to work with stakeholders on engaging content.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills focused on conveying complex information.
  • Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
  • Impact orientation, focused on delivering quantifiable results. 
  • An ability to develop and influence new marketing concepts and techniques.
  • Ability to grasp complex technical and business issues and articulate them simply.
  • Exceptional cross-functional leadership, interpersonal and presentation skills.
  • Creative flair and an attention to detail.
  • Ability to travel (regionally and potentially globally) up to 20%

 

Considered a plus:

  • Experience of copywriting and proofreading, particularly for technical industries.
  • Experience of working in a marketing agency.
  • Experience of working with marketing agencies and market research companies.
  • Experience of working within a matrix organization.
  • Understanding ROI economics and financial reporting.

 

Perks and Rewards That Inspire:

We offer competitive compensation, and comprehensive benefits including:

  • Discretionary bonus
  • Wellbeing support
  • 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
  • Very Competitive Pension Scheme
  • Free Car Parking on site
  • Subsidised employee restaurant on site
  • Employee Assistance Programme

 

 

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Ready for your next career step? Apply today and let's shape the future together!

It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities.

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their ethnic origin, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or any other characteristic. 


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