Marketing Specialist

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

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Regional Marketing Specialist EMEA
Location: Felling

Competitive salary plus benefits

We’re looking for a Regional Marketing Specialist to help translate strategy into action and drive demand across the region. In this role, you’ll work closely with sales, segment, and product teams to deliver impactful marketing activity that brings our value proposition to life for customers.

At AkzoNobel, we’re proud of our heritage and our focus on innovation and customer insight. You’ll join a collaborative marketing community where your ideas, commercial understanding, and ability to turn insight into execution will make a real difference.

What you’ll do:
•    Translate segment strategies, market research, and customer insights into a clear regional marketing plan with defined actions.
•    Partner with sales teams to drive sales activation through effective implementation of marketing and segment initiatives.
•    Act as the interface between marketing and sales to support strategic execution and track progress.
•    Collect and analyse competitor, customer, and market data to identify opportunities and areas of differentiation.
•    Support customer and needs-based segmentation to enable more targeted and effective marketing activity.
•    Implement global, segment-led campaigns and concepts to deliver sustainable differentiation in the region.
•    Work with product and segment teams to ensure regional product and service portfolio requirements are met, including the management of local portfolio.
•    Support regional product launches, working with global product managers, commercialisation, and sales teams.
•    Coordinate marketing campaigns, events, exhibitions, and customer communications using the most effective channels.
•    Develop and execute regional communication plans for your sub segments in collaboration with BU Marketing Communications.
•    Contribute to marketing collateral, media planning, and industry communications.

What you bring:
•    A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related discipline.
•    Experience in a commercial or marketing environment, ideally across more than one area of marketing or sales.
•    Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn data into insight and action.
•    Solid project management skills with the ability to manage multiple initiatives.
•    Confident interpersonal and influencing skills, able to work effectively across teams.
•    Commercial awareness with good financial acumen.
•    Curiosity and motivation to uncover regional and customer insights that drive differentiation.

Who you are:
•    Performance-driven, organised, and focused on delivering results.
•    Collaborative and comfortable working cross-functionally.
•    Proactive, adaptable, and confident managing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
•    Insight-led, customer-focused, and keen to make an impact.

Ready to help shape regional marketing that drives growth?

Apply now and play a key role in bringing AkzoNobel’s strategy to life in the market.

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At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 51191