Strategic Marketing Manager

Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address tough challenges linked to global macro trends such as safety, security, and energy. With approximately 122,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, we have an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything we make and do.

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Together, we can make an impact on our customers, each other, and millions of lives.

Honeywell is growing like never before and because our talented and innovative employees make us who we are, we are bringing you the chance to become part of an international team.

Candidate Profile

The successful candidate will be expected to be a high-energy, creative and resourceful self-starter who demonstrates leadership skills and instincts. He/she is highly intelligent and enthusiastic with a commitment to excellence. In terms of personal competencies, the successful candidate must be a hands-on person who possesses the best combination of strategic thinking and drive to achieve tangible business results. The candidates must be able to balance theoretical thought with practical. In addition, he/she should possess the following competencies:

· Strategic Marketing Skills: Deep understanding and experience with the ability to practically apply, as well as coach others. Must link strategies to financial results.
· Leadership: A confident, mature person with the ability to connect with others. Ability to lead projects and teams that successfully achieve milestones and complete deliverables.
· Results-Oriented: A driver who possesses the ability to take actions and implement effective solutions in a timely manner
· Problem Solver: A creative yet pragmatic problem solver. Methodical and hands-on as well as detail-oriented
· Analytical Thinking and Decision-Making: A “conceptualizer” of enterprise and market trends/issues who can then integrate that thinking into marketing and business strategies. Decisive and logical at thoroughly evaluating issues. Excellent planning, execution and project-management skills.
· Teamwork and Interpersonal Skills: A team player and builder, receptive to ideas from others. Shares information and keeps team members and partners informed. Works effectively with others to identify and resolve issues. Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to interact successfully with a diverse work force.
· Ethics: Highest level of professional integrity and honesty as well as personal credibility.

Qualifications:

· Bachelor's degree in engineering, business, or marketing; MBA highly preferred
· 3+ years experience in a management consulting firm or premier marketing organization
· Experience in managing multiple, complex projects and changing priorities, making sound decisions and working effectively with cross-functional teams
· Strong written & oral communication skills.
· Fluent in English, both verbal and in writing.

The Strategic Marketing Manager is responsible to help drive ACS organic growth faster than the market while driving profitability at double the revenue growth rate through a series of deep-dives into individual SBU/ SBE and /or by driving cross-SBU strategic growth and profitability initiatives (e.g. Pricing).



This individual must be able to analyze long-term market, competitive and technology trends and understand customer needs in order to identify attractive new markets and segments and develop and implement business strategies and plans that ensure long-term success.

The role requires thorough understanding and application of:

· Customer and market requirements through expert use of Voice of Customer, primary and secondary research
· Customer segments to decide where to play and how to play questions
· Vertical markets and value chain elements
· Business and Go-to-market models
· Pricing excellence and competitive pricing dynamics
· Microeconomics
· Basic marketing toolkit [market definition and sizing, segmentation, value management, targeting and positioning, pricing].

The role requires leading a team of two or more strategic marketing associate to deep-dives into SBUs and SBEs or drive cross-SBU / SBE initiatives so as to:

Drive growth and profitability

· Work with senior leadership at ACS and in the SBUs and SBEs to identify, scope, and structure key strategy initiatives to drive growth and profitability
· Quickly understand the issues facing the business, structure and develop work plans so as to develop a strategic solutions to problems, drive implementation of these solutions, and work well within a team
· Structure, prepare, and present well-designed and logical documents to senior management and command a senior audience
· Link business strategies clearly to financials and functional actions
· Drive implementation of the various strategic initiatives. Manage rate of change appropriately
· Identify M&A opportunities as a tool to further accelerate organic growth

Conduct Research and Analysis

· Help team members design and execute impactful market research studies; drive to conclusions and actionable recommendations for the business
· Lead market research planning and execution; Drive analysis to “so-whats”
· Communicates the findings and implications; Drive action from analysis

Manage Programs & Projects

· Work with team members to develop actionable and impactful work plans that balance speed of action with rigor on the initiative
· Ensure that all the deliverables of the project are met in a timely fashion
· Deploy appropriate team members on various work-streams while also helping to formulate the SBU/ SBE team who will co-work on the project with the ACS team
· Support or contribute in project planning and budget preparation for the year
· Keep senior ACS and SBU marketing leadership fully updated with the progress and impact of the project.

At Honeywell you will have a multicultural environment and a dynamic team, working together towards great achievement and personal development.

At Honeywell, we look for people driven by a desire to contribute, be challenged and grow. Our people make Honeywell a special company and are a key competitive advantage.

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