UL

Portfolio Marketing Lead - Sustainability & Building Technologies/Construction (BTC)

UL$110K — $150K *
Real Estate & Construction
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience in marketing strategy development through research and analysis.
  • Strong strategic thinking and business acumen.
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in related fields like sustainability or marketing.
  • Minimum 6 years of marketing experience in sustainability or B2B services.
  • At least 4 years of experience in digital marketing with significant budget management.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to simplify complex data.

Responsibilities

  • Develop an international go-to-market strategy for Sustainability and BTC portfolios.
  • Create and implement customer-centric messaging to enhance market relevance.
  • Drive efficient product launches and establish consistent launch governance.
  • Lead the development of buyer personas and gather critical customer insights.
  • Facilitate effective sales enablement and knowledge transfer across markets.
  • Oversee and align cross-functional collaboration on portfolio campaigns.
  • Provide leadership and coordination on sustainability project outcomes.

Benefits

  • Health benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage.
  • Wellness programs supporting mental and financial health.
  • 401K retirement savings plan with company match.
  • Generous paid time off comprising vacation, holidays, personal days, and sick time.
  • Bonus eligibility with a target payout of 20% of base salary.
Full Job Description
Leads others through influence to align Sustainability and Building Technologies & Construction (BTC)-related products, services and solutions in UL Solutions portfolio to market segments and prioritizes available resources, thereby driving clarity and efficiency in go-to-market execution. Collaborates with product, solution, industry, services, sales, regional marketing, business-unit marketing functions and senior cross-functional stakeholders to break down silos and bring UL Solutions' Sustainability and BTC portfolios to market in a way that makes sense to buyers (buying committees), sellers and influencers. Develops and understands target buyers and markets and distills information across the organization. Provides strategic direction for international go-to-market implementations, including leveraging content frameworks to attract and convert prospects and leads, enabling sales to facilitate positive customer experience, and ensuring the effectiveness of how Sustainability and BTC portfolios are promoted and sold. Responsibilities 1. International go-to-market strategy: Business and marketing goals definition - With the right vantage point, the go-to-market strategy is the unifying element that drives efficient execution and growth across the Sustainability and BTC portfolio of offerings. The essential needs are to identify knowledge that helps the organization grow and remain relevant in a mature market, identify unmet buyer needs across sustainability and built environment verticals and regions, and enable feature and function rationalization to build new offerings. Responsibilities: Size and segment global markets, align UL Solutions Sustainability and BTC portfolios to buyer/customer needs and align them with marketing, sales and product/service strategy. 2. Portfolio messaging and content: Shift from product to customer-centricity - Ensuring that the organization delivers a consistent, customer-focused message while continuously improving messaging with insights into the entire messaging cycle is critical. Messaging must continue to evolve through a full-circle review of content, driven by insights into how the messaging organization process is performing. Responsibilities: Understand the differentiators for buyers and buying committees, implement customer-centric messaging methodology, and facilitate alignment on target buyers/organizations. Translate complex sustainability, safety, regulatory, technical and built environment topics into clear messaging and content. 3. Bringing offerings to market: Marketing, product/service/solutions, sales alignment - Bringing consistency through best practices that ensure organization readiness for faster time to market enables the organization to get to market faster, measures how quickly the organization ramps up to targets and allows for monitoring above/below plan measurement that can be used as a baseline for continuous improvement. Responsibilities: Establish a launch tier model across the Sustainability and BTC portfolios, drive consistency in the launch process and planning, and develop launch governance. 4. Personas and buyer/customer insights: Persona-based marketing commitment - Influence front-end ideation, development and investment, provide critical insights for better go-to-market success and allow the business to ask the right questions before investing in innovation. Customer-centricity is difficult to achieve without a deep understanding of buyers and buying committees. Buyer/customer insights drive value upstream and downstream. Responsibilities: Identify and isolate buyers and buying committees, lead buyer persona development, and oversee buyer persona prioritization. Apply market, customer, competitive and performance insights to shape GTM strategy, campaign planning, content development and sales enablement. 5. Sales enablement: Customer journey and sales cycle alignment - Coordinated sales knowledge transfer programs to avoid inundating sellers and maximize sales adoption across the Sustainability and BTC portfolios. Responsibilities: Know the direct and indirect routes to market, understand the sales organization structure, sales process and skills, sales funnel, etc., to establish a consistent knowledge transfer plan. 6. Hands-on experience: Provide direct leadership for the Sustainability and BTC portfolios while working with senior cross-functional stakeholders, managing pressure and ambiguity, and ensuring seamless integration and alignment across portfolio campaigns. Responsibilities: Get grounded in the CE House Initiatives, draw an action plan when necessary and contribute to forwarding the outcomes of the projects undertaken by the Growth & Portfolio Marketing organization. 7. Contributes to business success by performing other tasks as required. Qualifications What makes you a great fit - Works well in a matrix organization and is able to manage pressure, competing priorities, and ambiguity. - Experience in creating marketing strategy using customer and market research, competitive analysis, standards or directives and regulatory frameworks and product/service requirements. - Strong business acumen and strategic thinking. - A bachelor's or master's degree in marketing, communications, sustainability, built environment, construction, engineering, science, business or related field. - At least 6 years of marketing experience in promoting a wide range of sustainability, building technologies, construction, safety, regulatory, technical or B2B services, solutions or programs. - Practical experience in regional or international marketing. - At least 4 years of digital marketing experience, including management of campaigns and programs with larger budgets. - Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills, with an eye for quality and attention to detail. - Experience collaborating and coordinating across functions, businesses, regions, senior leadership and external agencies. - Excellent facilitation, interviewing skills, project planning, and management. - Budget management, negotiation, and financial analysis skills. - Analytical mind and strong analytical skills. - Able to understand technical and scientific issues and to translate complex information for non-scientific audiences. Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $110,000 to $150,000 USD and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday and personal days (totaling 12 days) and sick time off (72 hours). #LI-SG2 #LI-Hybrid

About UL

UL is a global safety certification company headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois. It was founded in 1894 and has been providing safety testing, inspection, and certification services for over 125 years. UL operates in over 100 countries and has more than 14,000 employees worldwide. The company's mission is to promote safe living and working environments by advancing safety science. UL's services cover a wide range of industries, including consumer products, industrial equipment, building materials, and more.
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