Strategic Marketing VP

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Position: Vice President - Strategic Marketing

Position Summary:

A technically strong strategic marketing leader with excellent interpersonal skills is sought to join the Business Development organization to support the pneumatics leadership BU GMs and commercial sales teams. The applicant should have a sound knowledge and understanding of pneumatic technology and gas management and a strong background in commercial and BU excellence. The VP Strategic Marketing will partner with Pneumatics BUs R&D Manufacturing and Commercial Sales and Marketing teams to develop and execute high-growth product line strategies and support strategic planning for the pneumatics Group. They will be the organizations market knowledge resource/voice in the targeted markets described.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Formulate strategic market and product line strategies based on deep market insight; gather and analyze market data and provide opportunity assessments by end-application technology/product competitor and customer segmentation with a goal of identifying targets for profitable growth in optics.

Maintain and update the source code for IMBED Pneumatics playbook for customer acquisition and consultative selling.

Create a highly focused marketing function that charts and owns plans around:

• Website (eCommerce content messaging)
• Social media (LinkedIn promotion of IDEX Performance Pneumatics supports hiring plans)
• Tradeshows

Drive strategy of Product Price Promotion Place and People (5P) across IDEX Pneumatics sites in partnership with the BU GMs (through the lens of the strategic market-based vision)

Partner with BU GMs to incorporate IMBED into each business through partnerships with the commercial functions at the BUs.

Facilitate and drive strategic initiatives through the inception phase in collaboration with Business/Product Line Leaders targeting market share expansion via differentiated new product development (NPD) in the selected strategic markets

Create an acquisition roadmap then identify and cultivate acquisition targets aligned with the Groups strategic vision.

Participate in executing overall business strategy including but not limited to the yearly strategic plan process.

Works across the group to drive success through product and sales collaboration across internal businesses with shared customer solutions or growth opportunities.

Responsible for developing a portfolio of consultative relationships with key opinion leaders to allow pneumatics to take advantage of transformative advances in product/technology innovations and translate into highly differentiated new product offerings

Other duties as assigned

Skills and Characteristics:

Able to work across organizational boundaries

Ability to understand and digest highly technical information

Able to manage multiple tasks and priorities

Strong communicator inside and outside the organization

Comfortable with ambiguity (ability to make decisions/judgements without knowing all the facts)

Able to take analysis to diagnosis to implementation

Demonstrated business acumen

Managed and led cross-functional teams

Demonstrated use of strategic marketing tools and commercial excellence tools

Prior product management experience

Has implemented a large project or process change successfully

Understands financial budgeting and reporting

Education / Experience:

Applicant should have 5 years of business leadership experience preferably in a sales marketing or product development role.

Applicant should have a technical background in a scientific/engineering discipline at the Masters degree level or higher relevant to the position described and key responsibilities.

Person must be a dynamic leader capable of leading to achieve high level goals.

Reporting and Location:

This position may involve 35-50% travel to support trade shows and customer visits in the United States and internationally.

This position may require lawful access to ITAR/EAR-controlled information and employees in this role must meet those requirements. Requirements include US Citizenship or US Permanent Resident.

This position will be based in the Chicago area or at one of the BU sites in Linthicum MD Benton Harbor MI Rutherford NJ and reports to the President Performance Pneumatics

IDEX Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to workforce diversity

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people our culture and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world

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Benefits Package

Our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits 401(k) retirement savings program with company match PTO and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race color religion creed genetic information sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status age national origin disability protected veteran status or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal state or local laws.

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