Marketing Manager

Aptar Group • Mukwonago, WI

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Aptar is seeking a Marketing Manager based in Mukwonago, Wisconsin, or Lincolnton, North Carolina. This hybrid role requires working in the office 2–3 days per week. The Marketing Manager owns product pricing and cost-out strategies, drives stock asset performance improvements, and leads product marketing plans. The role serves as product expert and liaison between Commercial and Operations leadership, building cross-departmental relationships and alignment on strategic initiatives. Success requires analytical and strategic thinking, product positioning skills, strong communication and influencing skills, a customer-focused approach informed by customer feedback, market intelligence, and competitor analysis, and pragmatic, unbiased decision-making.

The role also shapes product profitability and growth by leading product-line pricing, cost-out activities, stock asset performance, monthly S&OP Product Review discussions, and product marketing initiatives. Travel is required up to 10% as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Finance, Business, or Engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience in product management or marketing, or equivalent experience in CPG.
• Solid understanding of product-management principles, including lifecycle management, product lifecycle curves, business case development, and Agile/Stage-Gate methodologies.
• Strong analytical skills, including financial modeling, ROI analysis, and pricing optimization.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with the ability to align regional and global stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• MBA.
• Direct exposure to dispensing packaging systems.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail, with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Ability to lead and drive decision-making without direct authority.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate across all organizational levels and with external parties.
• Willingness to learn and implement AI strategies to automate manual workloads.
• Ability to work under deadline pressure, prioritize and manage multiple and conflicting priorities, and operate in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage product-line pricing and cost-out activities.
• Lead list pricing strategy for stock products across all product lines.
• Drive stock asset performance improvements.
• Lead monthly S&OP Product Review discussions, focusing on the portfolio’s top phase-in and phase-out programs, with GMD support.
• Lead product marketing.
• Work with creative support personnel to develop strategic commercial product plans and training tools for product lines, as needed, with Commercial Specialist support. Examples include inventory programs, targeted product e-blasts, and sell sheets.
• Build trusted partnerships and product expertise.
• Use a pragmatic, unbiased approach to decision-making to deliver strong business outcomes.
• Serve as a liaison between Commercial and Operations leadership, aligning stakeholders on strategic initiatives.

Benefits

• Exciting, inclusive, and value-based working environment.
• Award-winning corporate university offering personal development and training opportunities.
• Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus plan.
• Opportunity to contribute to the communities where employees reside.
• 401(k) and retirement savings plan.
• Vacation.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Pet insurance.
• Wellness plan.
• Generous paid maternity and paternity leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager