Sr. Manager Global Marketing Excellence

Terumo BCT, Inc. • Lakewood, IL

1d • $163,100 - $203,900 • Onsite

About The Position

Strategic and results-driven leader responsible for driving the advancement of world-class marketing practices through the standardization, adoption, and continuous improvement of marketing frameworks, tools, processes, training, and governance. As a key member of the Marketing Center of Excellence, this role enables a unified marketing mindset across the enterprise, strengthens core marketing capabilities, and fosters a more connected global marketing community. Partnering closely with global and regional marketing, commercial excellence, market intelligence, product management, communications, and digital teams, this leader champions marketing as a strategic growth driver by strengthening capabilities in strategic marketing, customer-centric commercialization, launch excellence, demand generation, omnichannel engagement, and performance measurement. The ideal candidate combines deep marketing expertise, change leadership, and operational rigor with the ability to influence across a complex global matrix organization and build a culture of continuous learning, accountability, and best-practice sharing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of management experience with specific focus on marketing and cross-functional leadership.
• Expertise in strategic marketing, marketing operations, commercialization excellence, and go-to-market strategy.
• Strong understanding of customer-centric and omni-channel marketing strategy and market segmentation methodologies.
• Proven success in building and scaling marketing frameworks, templates, and toolkits, and capability-building programs.
• Proven ability to lead organizational change and drive adoption across complex global organizations.
• Experience establishing governance models, councils, and communities of practice.
• Knowledge of portfolio management, stage-gate innovation processes, and product lifecycle management frameworks.
• Familiarity with contemporary marketing technologies, CRM platforms, digital engagement platforms, and AI-enabled marketing capabilities.
• Strong analytical skills with proven proficiency in interpreting marketing performance data and translating insights into action.
• Skilled in developing and delivering training programs to build marketing capabilities.
• Experience in portfolio management mapping, prioritizing and optimizing marketing initiatives across business units.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels throughout the organization.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience working in matrixed, global organizations.
• An equivalent competency level acquired through a variation of these qualifications may be considered.

Nice To Haves

• MBA preferred.
• Strong preference for experience in medical device or healthcare fields.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate the Global Marketing Center of Excellence, establishing a forum for alignment, capability development, strategic communication, and best-practice exchange across regions and business units
• Support cross-functional and cross-regional collaboration to ensure consistency in marketing approaches while enabling local market flexibility
• Develop and implement enterprise standards, methodologies, tools, and best practices that elevate marketing effectiveness and business impact
• Benchmark internal marketing capabilities against industry-leading medical device and healthcare organizations and translate insights into capability-building initiatives
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and knowledge sharing across the global marketing community.
• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Marketing Excellence framework, including business case templates, opportunity assessment, commercialization and go-to-market plans
• Align framework with enterprise governance and new product development (NPD) processes to ensure marketing is embedded across the product lifecycle
• Develop and deliver training programs to upskill marketing teams on strategic planning, commercialization and go-to-market planning, launch excellence, campaign development, and performance measurement
• Create and maintain standardized templates, playbooks, tools, and best practices to drive consistency and quality
• Maintain governance over marketing processes, ensuring alignment with compliance, brand, and business standards
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions to embed the framework across global and regional marketing teams.
• Monitor adoption and effectiveness of tools and training, iterating based on feedback and business needs
• Define and implement key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing effectiveness, campaign performance, commercialization success, and capability maturity
• Partner with Commercial Analytics and Market Intelligence teams to strengthen data-driven decision making
• Drive adoption of outcome-based measurement practices that connect marketing activities to commercial performance and business growth
• Identify opportunities to improve return on marketing investment through analytics, process optimization, and capability enhancement

Benefits

• competitive total reward offerings that consist of compensation, benefits, recognition, along with a wealth of other well-being, work-life and recognition programs
• multiple group medical, dental and vision plans
• a robust wellness program
• life insurance and disability coverages
• a variety of voluntary programs such as group accident, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance and much more
• 401(k) plan with a matching contribution
• vacation and sick time programs

What This Job Offers

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