Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? Are you always solving? Then we’d like to meet you and bet you’d like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Marketing Manager to join our Latin America Personal Care business in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and our global Personal Care Business Line. This position will report to the Regional Personal Care General Manager.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Elaborate & lead the strategy plan and execution for the Care portfolio in the region
• Drive market share analysis of Care portfolio in LATAM through advanced analysis, identifying opportunities across products, regions, and key accounts, and driving execution with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Drive the development of Marketing tools & documentation for and in collaboration with Marcom and Global Marketing:
• Drive development, positioning, and launch of new products or new products applications regionally by bridging innovation with market demand & aspiration
• Analyzing existing and potential Personal Care market to best positioning Ashland vs competition, identify unmet market & key customer needs, product line extension opportunities
• Lead marketing of Innova launches
• Set price positioning with global marketing input for new and existing products
• Track and maximize sustainable and profitable expansion of existing products and their lifecycle stages (including portfolio management)

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, pharmacy or related field. 
• MBA is also required
• preview years experience working in a strategic marketing role and ability to analyze data & information, demonstrate financial acumen, business planning, strategic frameworks, etc.
• Relevant knowledge of excipients, ingredients, and related materials
• Fluency in English and Spanish
• Ability & desire to function at both strategic and tactical levels
• Strong influencing capabilities, leadership accountability, and process discipline and rigor
• Experience in influencing and indirectly managing cross-functional teams and working collaboratively and globally in a cross-cultural environment.
• Strong understanding of marketing strategy development and execution, market and trend research, customer segmentation, communication channel mix  
• Excellent communication skills, talent for building strong networks within Ashland but also with potential customers and external partners
• Strategic & analytical thinking skills, pleasant and engaging style, and executive presence