Marketing Specialist

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Marketing Specialist – Packaging & Specialty Plastics

Job Location: Shanghai, China

We are looking for a Marketing Specialist with strategic marketing skills and insights into flexible packaging (rigids an added advantage) market. In this role you will have the responsibility for both, strategic and tactical marketing, with a strong focus on growth and innovation in our Flexible & Rigids Packaging in China. The collaboration and coordination across functions, cross regions including sales, TS&D, R&D, communication, and product management as well as with your peers, key customers, distributors, and relevant teams will be critical for success.

Core Responsibilities

• Responsible for development and implementation of China Marketing Plans (3-5 years) and 4P market plan, by translating the higher level’s global segment strategy, and define breakthrough in innovation, sustainability narrative and digital commerce approach with primary intent to generate leads & convert them to commercial success.

• Drive market plan implementation and achieve growth target by working closely with cross functional Market Management Team for respective segment, drive growth and efficiency through collaboration and prioritization.

• Leverage marketing excellence to provide market insight, identify new opportunities for growth short-term and long term by collaboration across the value chain.

• Including the competitive analysis, share gain initiatives, market segmentation & assessment. Provide input and prioritize regional marcom initiatives so as to conduct successful customer events/engagements sessions.

Your Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in chemical, materials, Engineering or Marketing related majors.

• MBA is strongly recommended.

Your Skills

• Solid marketing and commercial experience in performance chemical/plastic industry for at least 5 years+, good knowledge of flexible packaging market or proven skillset of fast learner. Having experience in specialty polymers an added advantage.

• Customer and market orientation with strong bias towards value-add sales and value chain engagement.

• Virtual leader with strong influencing power and strong team player and builder across functions and geographies

• Strategic thinker, problem solver, result and action oriented, self-motivated

• Financial Acumen and innovation Savvy

• Fluency in verbal and written English.
  
  

Benefits – What Dow offers you

We invest in you.

Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent, and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.

Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:

• Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
• Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental, financial, and social well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
• Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning, and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
  • Employee stock purchase programs (availability varies depending on location).
• Student Debt Retirement Savings Match Program (U.S. only).
  • Dow will take the value of monthly student debt payments and apply them as if they are contributions to the Employees’ Savings Plan (401(k)), helping employees reach the Company match.
• Robust medical and life insurance packages that offer a variety of coverage options to meet your individual needs. Travel insurance is also available in certain countries/locations.
• Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
• Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
• Competitive yearly vacation allowance.
• Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
• Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
• Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Group’s (ERG) participation.
• Wellbeing Portal for all Dow employees, our one-stop shop to promote wellbeing, empowering employees to take ownership of their entire wellbeing journey.
• On-site fitness facilities to help stay healthy and active (availability varies depending on location).
• Employee discounts for online shopping, cinema tickets, gym memberships and more.
• Additionally, some of our locations might offer:
  • Transportation allowance (availability varies depending on location)
  • Meal subsidiaries/vouchers (availability varies depending on location)
  • Carbon-neutral transportation incentives e.g. bike to work (availability varies depending on location)

Join our team, we can make a difference together.

About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) is one of the world’s leading materials science companies, serving customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Our global breadth, asset integration and scale, focused innovation, leading business positions and commitment to sustainability enable us to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. We operate manufacturing sites in 30 countries and employ approximately 36,000 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $43 billion in 2024. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. ​​​​Learn more about us and our ambition to be the most innovative, customer-centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world by visiting .

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