As a Sr. Category Marketing Manager, you’ll strategically lead a diverse product portfolio—crafting clear value propositions, driving growth, and empowering sales teams with actionable insights. You’ll collaborate across functions to deliver seamless commercial execution, engage directly with customers to convert opportunities, and translate global strategy into impactful regional plans.
Following the recent repositioning of our US/Canada Marketing team as a proactive growth engine, enabling strategic planning, innovation, and consistent brand experiences,this is your chance to make a measurable impact, operate with autonomy, and champion innovation in a high-visibility role.
What you will do:
Global Category Strategy
Shape Global Strategy: Represent your region in a cross-functional team to develop and execute a forward-looking global category strategy, leveraging local market insights and trends.
Drive Regional Roadmaps: Contribute to the creation of technical roadmaps tailored to your category and region.
Business Reporting & Analysis: Ensure consistent category reporting, guide budget and strategic planning, and analyze profitability to identify growth opportunities.
Customers & Growth
Engage Key Customers: Build market knowledge through direct customer interactions, inform solution development, and help convert high-value sales opportunities.
Market Intelligence: Gather and apply market and competitor insights to identify growth potential and inform strategic decisions.
Brand & Category Appraisals: Regularly assess sub-category and brand performance, identifying opportunities to enhance consumer appeal and drive category growth.
Regional Category Growth
Lead Growth Initiatives: Initiate and guide cross-functional teams to implement annual growth plans and innovation projects.
Pipeline Development: Partner with Sales to expand the opportunity pipeline and support targeted prospecting for “must win” customers.
Demand Generation & Sales Enablement: Collaborate with digital and go-to-market teams to develop impactful campaigns and sales tools, and train teams on category trends.
Innovation
Champion Innovation: Consolidate regional customer insights to prioritize innovation opportunities, develop business cases, and drive strategic change.
Launch Excellence: Coordinate new product launches with global teams, ensuring strong value propositions backed by consumer insights and competitive analysis.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years’ experience in category, segment or strategic marketing leadership roles preferably in B2B food ingredients or adjacent solution‑driven categories
- Some familiarity with category or adjacent category knowledge – if category knowledge limited than strong synergistic ingredient knowledge
- Demonstrated ownership of categories, segments, or portfolios with clear commercial accountability
- Experience supporting new category development, innovation pipelines, and growth initiatives rather than only mature portfolios
- Comfortable being measured on pipeline, conversion, and growth, not awareness or reach
- Thinks in terms of where to play / how to win, not only campaigns
- Experience operating in regional and global matrixed organizations
- Proven track record working closely with Sales, Innovation/R&D, and technical teams
- Strong exposure to consultative selling environments
- Comfortable with ambiguity and live problem-solving
Why Join Ingredion?
Discover why Ingredion is the ideal place to advance your career with our exceptional rewards and benefits package designed to help you thrive. Create the future with us and enjoy:
Total Rewards Package – Competitive salary and performance-based pay recognizing your contributions to our success
Comprehensive Benefits & Wellness Support – Health, long-term savings, and resources for your physical, mental, and emotional well-being
Flexible Work Arrangements – We value flexibility to support you both professionally and personally
Career Growth – Learning, training, and development opportunities.
Employee Recognition Program – A culture of real-time appreciation, with personalized recognition rewards globally
Employee Referral Program – Refer top talent and earn a bonus if they’re hired
Relocation Available:
No
Pay Range:
$149,400.00-$199,200.00 Annual
This pay range is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Final base salary will be determined based on several factors which may include but are not limited to responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data and applicable bargaining agreement (if any).
Incentive Compensation:
As a part of the total compensation package, this role may be eligible for the Ingredion Annual Incentive Plan or a role-specific commission/bonus.
Benefits:
Full-time roles are eligible for our comprehensive benefits package which includes medical, dental and vision coverage as well as a 401(k) plan with an competitive company match.
