This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will remain open until filled or adjusted based on the volume of applicants.

Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging. Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe!

Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award! As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members. From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.

Primary Purpose of this Position:  

Leads strategy & marketing function for the largest Ball Corp region in footprint to: create the regional strategy, set regional business priorities and pacing, provide market insights & analytics (associated with Comm Ops/Strategy), manage commercial operations and category marketing in close partnership with the Regional President and Enterprise Strategy, Insights & Commercial Excellence team.

What will you be responsible for? 

• Responsible for developing and providing long-term guidance on regional business priorities building business cases complete with fact-base to support the regional business goals. Also, develops and communicates regional strategy connected to the Ball Corp enterprise strategy through a region priority lens. Makes recommendations and oversees business case recommendations within region.
• Overall responsibility for the critically important work around category marketing and portfolio management capabilities that allow us to understand our target markets and opportunities in-depth, translating this to robust customer value propositions and in working with the Enterprise Strategy and Innovation teams to manage our product portfolio to match our business needs.
• Leverages regional analytics, including operating unit regional analytics to support operating unit strategies/ commercial/category planning (analytics and use of data), and regional competitor profiles. Responsible for compilation of any specific operating unit secondary data – such as compilation of customer data (in consultation with the Global Insights team).
• Oversees regional commercial operations, including pipeline mgmt./sufficiency checks vs. plan (future state CRM needs), demand planning, forecasting & development of demand plan as part of S&OP/IBP process cadence, Net Promotor Score / CX, and working with commercial leads on talent skill and commercial enablement.
• Oversees regional category marketing team, including category management, building category plans, defining insights needed to support category plan, feeding innovation pipeline, supporting in-region commercialization of new products, regional Playing To Win strategy development and deployment, channel strategies and SKU rationalization, as well as the front-end of the critical innovation development process working with the Center of Excellence for Strategy and Marketing to fill the innovation ideation funnel. 

What are we looking for? 

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in business, strategy, marketing or related field with preference towards a Master’s degree in business, strategy, marketing or related field
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in strategy, marketing or closely related work at leadership level 
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in leading teams in a matrix environment
• Thinking long-term, aligning marketing efforts with overall business goals, and adapting to changing landscapes.
• Understanding and applying the latest trends, consumer behavior, and industry dynamics is crucial.
• Growth planning and development in market or region of business; requires geographic understanding, analysis and difference.
• Overseeing marketing and strategy activity for medium to large B2B companies.

Working knowledge of the following areas:  

• Complex business strategy principles, process and application for results
• Enterprise analytics and insights connectivity to drive business growth and performance
• Commercial process, operations, demand forecasting and pipeline management
• Category management, including category plans, channel strategy, and product rationalization

 Compensation & Benefits:

• This role will be based in Westiminster, CO. Relocation will be considered. 
• Hiring Salary Range: $ 230,000 - 320,000  (Salary to be determined by the applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.)
• This role will be eligible to participate in the annual incentive compensation plan.
• Ball includes a comprehensive benefits structure, Go to our career site and click "Total Rewards" to learn more.

When submitting your application to Ball, we encourage you to emphasize your skills, experience, and qualifications that align with the role. Under Colorado, California, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania law, you have the right to exclude or redact age-related details—such as your date of birth, school attendance dates, or graduation dates—from your resume, cover letter, CV, or other supporting documents (e.g., transcripts, certificates). 

Ball Corporation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody. All qualified job applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, veteran status, age, political affiliation or any other non-merit characteristic. 

When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide. Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world. Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging.

Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love. Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.

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