Marketing Manager - Dairy

Kemin Industries is a privately held biotechnology company committed to transforming the quality of life for people, pets, and the planet. They are seeking a Marketing Manager to lead species growth strategy and drive sustainable business expansion within the Dairy business, focusing on customer insights and industry trends to develop effective marketing strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Drive market share expansion, revenue growth, and long-term business opportunities within the dairy segment through strategic planning and execution
• Collaborate with Product Managers, R&D, Technical Services, Regulatory, Marketing, and Sales teams to ensure successful product development, positioning, commercialization, and market adoption
• Identify, evaluate, and pursue emerging market opportunities, customer segments, and strategic partnerships that expand the business and support future growth objectives
• Gather and synthesize insights from producers, nutritionists, veterinarians, feed mills, and other industry stakeholders to identify customer needs, challenges, and market opportunities
• Monitor industry trends, economic drivers, disease challenges, competitive activity, and regulatory developments to inform strategic decision-making and market positioning
• Evaluate current product offerings, identify portfolio gaps, and recommend new product, service, or innovation opportunities to meet evolving customer and market needs
• Translate technical product benefits into clear economic, operational, and business value propositions tailored to the targeted species segment
• Lead go-to-market planning, product launch execution, and commercialization initiatives to accelerate customer adoption and business growth
• Develop and implement strategic programs and market development initiatives that create market awareness, customer engagement, and demand for solutions
• Partner with sales teams to provide market insights, customer intelligence, positioning strategies, and value-based messaging that support commercial success
• Build and maintain relationships with key opinion leaders, universities, research institutions, industry associations, and other strategic partners to strengthen market presence and advance business objectives

Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree, in Marketing or Life Sciences background, with 5-7 years of experience in Dairy markets
• Maintain industry knowledge and experience
• Background must include strategic marketing experience
• Must have a solid understanding and adherence to the Servant Leadership philosophy
• Must be proactive, self-motivated, energetic, business-minded manager with a broad scientific/technical aptitude knowledge base who can provide product leadership, set priorities, delegate responsibilities and meet timetables leading to the attainment of growth goals
• Experience as an effective product or marketing manager, project team player, leader and motivator; and the ability to present ideas effectively and communicate well with customers, peers and all levels of management
• Strong cross functional team, leadership and interpersonal skills to be able to work effectively in a diverse team environment
• Strong financial skills: especially the ability to understand financial statements and to analytically evaluate and understand product costs, margin, pricing and market share
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, problem solving, and critical thinking skills
• Requires a marketing mentality combined with marketing training and experience as it relates to marketing products in the industry
• Demonstrated integrity and honesty in all aspects
• MBA preferred, but not required