Strategic Marketing Director - Vehicle

The Strategic Marketing Director is responsible of driving global growth of our products through development and execution of market strategies that target specific segments. This position needs a solid mix of commercial and technical skills as the Market Segment Manager will work closely with engineers, sales managers, and program managers.

What are we looking for?

Given Sensata’s growth ambitions to expand our competitive edge, and our leadership position in our automotive, industrial, heavy vehicle and off-road, aerospace, military, commercial and residential end markets, we are seeking a Strategic Marketing Professional to identify new growth markets, expand existing markets and create proposals and strategies for optimizing and executing on those opportunities.

This role will lead multiple strategic initiatives, and will be expected to thoroughly analyze market opportunities, organize cross-functional teams, and propose and manage timely analyses with predetermined milestones. Ultimately, he/she will establish well supported solutions with specific recommendations that will enable the executive management team to make critical go/no go decisions.

This role will collaborate with our Corporate Strategy team, Business unit General Managers, Ventures/Technology office, and Marketing leaders to develop new strategies, refine specific BU strategies and identify new growth markets. In addition, he/she will regularly interface with the Corporate M&A team to develop and execute a healthy M&A pipeline including target outreach and developing & executing integration plans. He/ she may also support the various business units with their strategic planning as required.

This role will report directly to the Vice President, Product Marketing

• Driving strategic initiatives through concept, management alignment, and execution.
• Presenting strategy and market opportunities regularly to management as well as reporting updates on results against business objectives to the regional and global executives of the business
• Collaborating with peers across the globe on market research and analysis to help lead initiatives to drive our business objectives.
• M&A: Support for identifying inorganic growth opportunities for Sensata that align with strategy, including landscape analysis, opportunity and pipeline identification, strategy due diligence, etc.

• Education Experience: Undergraduate degree in Engineering, Economics or Business is required. Graduate MBA degree from top 20 business school a plus. Master's of Science degree a plus.
• A minimum of two years of consulting with a top-tier firm, having worked on growth strategy projects and/or 2-5 years of experience in a Corporate Strategy role
• Analytical Rigor: the ability to run highly complicated quantitative and financial analysis in a defect-free manner.
• Structured and Logical Thinking: the ability to dissect a problem in a structured approach and quickly form a hypothesis against which to run test analysis.
• Powerful Communication: the ability to communicate persuasively, both verbally and on paper/digital media with company Executives.
• Understand different Direct Sales and Channel Selling options
• Understanding of HW, SW and SaaS models

• Be modest in nature, recognizing the accomplishments of the team before the individual
• Be highly motivated and possess vision and enthusiasm
• Understand how to deliver on short time frames and be committed to meeting deadlines
• Communicate in an open and honest way that quickly builds trust and respect
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit
• Comfortable developing and giving presentations to senior individuals both inside and outside the company

• Collaborating at Sensata means working with some of the world’s most talented people in an enriching environment that is constantly pushing towards the next best thing
• Employees work across functions, countries and cultures gaining new perspectives through mutual respect and open communication
• As OneSensata, we are working together to make things work together