Senior Director, US Dairy Marketing

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Your Role: Senior Director, US Dairy Marketing

At Elanco, Marketing plays a vital role in driving our growth and helping us realize our mission to enrich our customers’ lives through food and companionship.  Our marketers are passionate about what we do every day to build our portfolio of brands.  As a team, Marketing is obsessed and generous with insights from the marketplace, and we embrace our role as the bridge between our customers, our stakeholders and our products.  We focus on delivering competitive, smart strategies and execution that will enable Elanco to succeed. 

The US Dairy Marketing Director is a key leader within the US Farm Animal Marketing Team responsible to lead, develop and drive all aspects of Dairy business strategy including disease state, category and brand management to achieve business goals.

The US Dairy Marketing Director has a deep understanding of the market, competition and most important the key insights of our target customers which enables Elanco to achieve our business goals and create a new market space.

This leader is also responsible for contributing to the overall development of our marketing capabilities by leading and developing teams, process and advocating for the marketing efforts.

The leader is a key business partner with the US Dairy Business Unit Leaders and is a standing member of the US Dairy Lead Team.

Your Responsibilities:  

Business Ownership


* Manages P&L for dairy brands


* Develops and consolidates Business Plan, ensures delivery of revenue and profit annually


* Ownership of product forecast, brand plans, cycle plans, lifecycle management of the dairy portfolio (product, price, placement, promotion).


* Identifies R&D and business opportunities aligned with strategic objectives and influences across the organization to ensure optimal execution

Strategy Development & Execution


* Develops and executes a strong dairy strategy that leverages customer insights and needs ensuring strategic focus for the portfolio is clearly established and that brand positioning, comm...