Director, Sliding Stem Global Marketing at Emerson Electric Co in Marshalltown, Iowa

Job Description:

At Emerson, we are innovators and problem-solvers, focused on a common purpose: leaving our world in a better place than we found it. Each and every day, our foundational values—integrity, safety and quality, supporting our people, customer focus, continuous improvement, collaboration and innovation—inform every decision we make and empower our employees to keep reaching higher. As a global technology and engineering leader, we provide groundbreaking solutions for customers in industrial, commercial, and residential markets. Our Emerson Automation Solutions business helps process, hybrid, and discrete manufacturers maximize production and protect personnel and the environment while optimizing their energy and operating costs. Our Emerson Commercial & Residential Solutions business helps ensure human comfort and health, protect food quality and safety, advance energy efficiency and create sustainable infrastructure.

Emerson, a Fortune 500 company with $15.3 billion in sales and 200 manufacturing locations worldwide, is committed to helping employees grow and thrive throughout their careers.
Whether you’re an established professional looking for a career change, an undergraduate student exploring options or a recent MBA graduate, you’ll find a variety of opportunities at Emerson. Join our team and start your journey today.

The Director, Sliding Stem Global Marketing provides the leadership and direction needed to grow the business unit portfolio. This individual will provide the decision making needed to balance long term growth objectives against short term opportunities and issues to achieve sales, profitability, and customer service goals.

Responsibilities include leadership and direction of product marketing and marketing communications, field sales education, product field technical and warranty support, and support and management of the Sales and Operations Planning process.

This individual will help set core engineering priorities and direction and provide leadership for managing product enhancements, product cost, and technology transitions (internal and external), including customer management of change.

This individual’s team will support new product development (NPD) activities at critical times during the NPD process – requirements setting, sales launch, and ramp up.

This individual has responsibility to drive year over year growth and profit improvement of a $500M+ portfolio, creating value for our customers and keeping Fisher Control Valves the first choice in the mind of the end user.

• Work closely with business unit team members to create and implement product business plans.
• Develop and implement team and individual goals that grow the Sliding Stem business unit sales and enhance profitability.
• Work closely with the world area marketing and sales teams to ensure global needs are considered. 
• Provide input and support to new product development teams during critical phases.
• Identify product gaps or overlaps and develops strategies to resolve.
• Work closely with Emerson Marketing Communications to effectively develop and deliver the Fisher brand message.
• Interact proactively with other Emerson divisions on all issues that impact Fisher control valves.
• Understand field selling needs and develop strategies and materials to support.
• Support the Sales and Operations Planning process, global forecasting and order insight.
• Identify and develop business leaders to assure continuity of leadership.
• Proactively identify opportunities for potential acquisition targets, strategic investment as well as competitive threats.

• You identify opportunities that benefit the customer
• You identify & seize new opportunities
• You adjust communication to fit the audience and the message
• You effectively handle risk

REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

• BA/BS Degree in Engineering, Business or Marketing
• Minimum of 10+ years of industry experience
• Experience with managing people both local and international.
• Experience at collaborating with international work groups
• Experience providing customer presentations

• MBA preferred
• Product management experience preferred
• Control valve business knowledge and experience desired.
• Demonstrated exceptional interpersonal communication skills, both oral and written. 
• Ability to manage without direct authority
• Able to lead cross-functional, global teams to achieve common objectives
• Good understanding of finance and financial principles
• Functional understanding of the use of Microsoft Office applications, including PowerPoint, Excel, and PowerBI
• Knowledge of Fisher & Baumann™ products desired
• Ability to interface directly with customers, sales channel, and upper management in critical customer situations
• Attention to detail and ability to handle multiple priorities
• A self starter that is able to plan and direct others

Engineering