Global Marketing Communications Manager, Life Sciences

Ashland Specialty Ingredients, GP

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 Communications Senior Specialist to join our Ashland Specialty ingredients G.P.

business out of our Wilmington, DE location working in a hybrid environment.

This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the award-winning communications function.

This position will report to VP Corporate Affairs, Global Marketing, Brand and Business Communications.

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



* Developing and distributing print and digital communications (e.g., digital campaigns, press releases, literature, web page content, internal newsletters, etc.,)


* Tradeshow planning and execution


* Writing as well as reviewing and editing documents drafted by subject matter experts to ensure they comply with brand voice and AP Style.


* Working knowledge of traditional and digital communications and automated sales-enabling campaigns including Pardot and salesforce.com


* We love new ideas and innovation - bring your strategic marketing communications, media relations and negotiating skills to the table


* Actively contribute to organizational goals by taking initiative, executing on goals and focusing on performance and safety


* Improve the organization capacity and capabilities through building collaborative relationships, optimizing diverse talent and utilizing positive communications and influence with others


* Travel Responsibilities- up to 20% travel may be required

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


* The ideal candidate has at least 10 years of experience managing marketing communications for a global Fortune 500 company, in the life sciences / pharma specialty chemicals sector.

S/he also must be comfortable in a matrixed environment working in a support function and partnering with key stakeholders across the commercial business unit to maintain an in-depth understanding of functional processes and commercial products, services and brand strategy to build and implement impactful external communications.


* Strong writing, spelling and editing skills are necessary.


* Previous agency briefing and relationship management as well as strong budget forecasting and reconciliation skills is mandatory.


* Always demonstrates responsible and ethical behavior.


* The ability to help the company drive greater value through understanding the business, solving complex challenges and creating the new and different

The following skill sets ...