Strategic Marketing Manager (Pharma Ingredients)
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£50,100
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SOC 2432 (84% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £50,100, and Croda is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 3554 (Advertising and marketing associate professionals). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
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New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2432 Marketing and commercial managers Most likely code | £35,000 | £40,000 | £45,100 | £50,100 |
3554 Advertising and marketing associate professionals Also possible | £33,400 | £41,700 | £41,700 | £41,700 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
Strategic Marketing Manager, (Pharma Ingredients)
Shape Market-Led Growth Across Pharma Ingredients
Croda is a purpose-led FTSE 100 organization, delivering smart science to improve lives. As we strengthen our position across pharmaceutical markets, we are seeking a Strategic Marketing Manager to shape the future growth of the Pharma Ingredients business.
Operating at the center of the organization, you will align Marketing, Research & Technology, and Commercial teams so that innovation and portfolio decisions are grounded in market insight and focused on long-term value. You will lead strategic marketing across a diverse portfolio of approximately five hundred products within a business segment, generating approximately £250 million in revenue.
This is a senior global leadership role for a commercially minded leader who can bring structure to complexity, influence across a matrix, and turn customer and market insight into sharper portfolio choices, differentiated positioning, and sustainable value creation.
Why Join Pharma Ingredients Now?
Pharma Ingredients is at a pivotal stage in its evolution. As a significant global business within Croda, we are strengthening how a diverse portfolio of pharmaceutical excipients, bioprocessing reagents, and formulation technologies, are shaped, prioritized, and positioned. With strong margins, ambitious growth expectations, and continued investment in market-led innovation, this is an opportunity to help define the next phase of sustainable growth for Pharma Ingredients.
This role offers the opportunity to strengthen how a significant global portfolio is shaped, prioritized, and positioned while building the frameworks and market-insight capability needed for the next phase of growth.
What Success Looks Like
Strategic Marketing & Market Leadership
Shape Market-Led Growth Across Pharma Ingredients
Croda is a purpose-led FTSE 100 organization, delivering smart science to improve lives. As we strengthen our position across pharmaceutical markets, we are seeking a Strategic Marketing Manager to shape the future growth of the Pharma Ingredients business.
Operating at the center of the organization, you will align Marketing, Research & Technology, and Commercial teams so that innovation and portfolio decisions are grounded in market insight and focused on long-term value. You will lead strategic marketing across a diverse portfolio of approximately five hundred products within a business segment, generating approximately £250 million in revenue.
This is a senior global leadership role for a commercially minded leader who can bring structure to complexity, influence across a matrix, and turn customer and market insight into sharper portfolio choices, differentiated positioning, and sustainable value creation.
Why Join Pharma Ingredients Now?
Pharma Ingredients is at a pivotal stage in its evolution. As a significant global business within Croda, we are strengthening how a diverse portfolio of pharmaceutical excipients, bioprocessing reagents, and formulation technologies, are shaped, prioritized, and positioned. With strong margins, ambitious growth expectations, and continued investment in market-led innovation, this is an opportunity to help define the next phase of sustainable growth for Pharma Ingredients.
This role offers the opportunity to strengthen how a significant global portfolio is shaped, prioritized, and positioned while building the frameworks and market-insight capability needed for the next phase of growth.
What Success Looks Like
Strategic Marketing & Market Leadership
- Define and lead a global strategic marketing agenda aligned with business strategy and long-term growth priorities.
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- Shape and evolve the global product portfolio across focus for this role on medium to long - term.
- Establish structured portfolio planning and performance visibility, identifying portfolio gaps, health, and future growth opportunities.
- Translate technical capabilities into clear, differentiated value propositions that resonate with customers and support revenue and margin growth.
- Ensure portfolio choices balance customer value, strategic fit, investment requirements, and commercial return.
- Take ownership of innovation-pipeline governance and prioritization, enabling disciplined investment decisions and commercially viable outcomes.
- Align Research & Technology, Sales, Product Management, and regional teams around market-led innovation priorities and execution.
- Ensure technical capability and development of resources are directed toward the strongest market opportunities.
- Improve organizational focus and consistency in how innovation priorities are selected, governed, and brought to market.
- Align the existing innovation pipeline to the updated business strategy.
- Improve visibility of portfolio performance, gaps, and investment choices.
- Build stronger organizational capability to generate, share, and apply market insights.
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Strategic Perspective: Connect market dynamics, portfolio choices, innovation priorities, and investment decisions, to sustain long-term growth.
Curiosity: Explore unmet needs, competitive shifts, and emerging tools to improve insight and identify future opportunities.
Delivery: Convert strategic marketing principles into measurable business outcomes and return on investment.
Working Together: Align Marketing, Research & Technology, Commercial, and regional stakeholders around shared choices and execution.
Authenticity: Lead with credibility, low ego, and transparency while building trust across a global matrix.
Adaptability: Maintain strategic focus while operating effectively in ambiguous and evolving environments.
Experience & Expertise
- Significant strategic marketing and/or portfolio management experience in a global B2B environment.
- Experience in specialty chemicals, life sciences, pharmaceutical markets, or another complex technical sector is strongly preferred.
- Proven success, shaping complex product and innovation portfolios, and translating market insight into actionable growth strategies.
- History of influencing portfolio, innovation, and investment decisions across a complex global matrix organization.
- Commercial acumen with demonstrated focus on differentiation, sustainable growth, margin expansion, and return on investment.
- Experience coaching and developing high-performing teams and influencing stakeholders who may not report directly to the role.
- Ability to combine customer insight, competitive intelligence, data-driven marketing, and emerging digital tools to improve decisions.
Global leadership responsibility for strategic marketing, portfolio direction, innovation prioritization, and market insight across Pharma Ingredients. The role partners closely with Research & Technology, Sales, Product Management, and regional teams and are expected to build capability, frameworks, and consistent execution across the organization.
What We Offer
The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary and benefits package including:
- Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, available immediately.
- Generous PTO
- 401K Match
- Wellness Reimbursement
- Parental Leave
- Career Development
- Company paid and voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- Paid Holidays
This is a site-based role located in Cowick, England.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the hiring process or experience any issues with our online application process, please email [email protected].
Why Croda?
At Croda, our purpose is Smart science to improve lives. As a global leader in specialty ingredients and life sciences innovation, we partner with customers to solve complex challenges that improve health, sustainability, and quality of life around the world.
Our success is built on the expertise of our people and a culture grounded in our values of Responsible, Innovative, and Together. We believe diverse perspectives, scientific curiosity, collaborative leadership, and practical execution create the conditions for sustainable growth and meaningful impact. Joining Croda means becoming part of a business where your work will directly contribute to customer success, business performance, and innovations that improve lives globally.
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Where this offer sits in the market
Marketing and commercial managers (SOC 2432) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~108k in sampleSOC 2432
- Middle half £40,664–67,912
- Median £53,404
- Going rate £50,100
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £35,000–45,100
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
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What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2432 going rate of £50,100. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.