Lead Strategic Marketing Specialist Beauty & Home Care Europe

Job title: Lead Strategic Marketing Specialist Beauty & Home Care Europe

About the Role

At Lubrizol, we are transforming the beauty and home care industries through science, innovation, and customer intimacy. We are looking for a Lead Strategic Marketing Specialist Europe to lead strategic and operational marketing initiatives across our Beauty & Home Care business in Europe. This is a senior individual contributor role that combines strong category expertise, technical understanding, and hands-on project leadership to deliver impactful innovation and successful go-to-market execution across Europe.

What You'll Do

• Lead strategic and operational marketing activities across Beauty & Home Care in Europe, ensuring alignment with global priorities and regional commercial needs.
• Act as a cross-category technical and market expert, leveraging consumer insights, technology advancements, and competitive intelligence to shape strategies and innovation.
• Drive execution of key innovation and renovation projects in close collaboration with R&D, technical service, regional marketing, and commercial teams.
• Support pipeline development and go-to-market execution to deliver business growth.
• Manage end-to-end project workflows, ensuring timely delivery, operational excellence, and adherence to internal processes.
• Contribute to capability building by sharing deep expertise in category dynamics, formulation principles, and ingredient technologies.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across global, regional, technical, and commercial teams to ensure seamless execution.
• Lead the planning and execution of trade shows and industry events, including concept development, messaging, content creation, coordination, and post-event analysis.

What We're Looking For

• Solid technical and category expertise in beauty, cosmetics, and/or home care, with the ability to translate technical insights into compelling marketing narratives.
• Proven experience in regional or global marketing, technical marketing, or product development within relevant industries.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to or leading trade shows, exhibitions, or major industry events, with strong storytelling and execution capabilities.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Strategic and analytical mindset, capable of synthesizing data and insights into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage effectively across technical, commercial, and regional stakeholders.
• Ability to work autonomously in a fast-paced, matrix organization.

Nice to Have

• Advanced understanding of formulation principles and functional ingredient technologies in Beauty & Home Care.
• Experience working in a multinational environment with exposure to European markets.
• Strong track record of delivering innovation projects and successful product launches.

Compensation & Benefits

• What Lubrizol Offers: a global, innovation-driven environment where science and creativity meet; opportunities to work on industry-leading technologies in beauty and home care; collaboration with diverse, highly skilled teams across regions and functions; career development opportunities within a leading specialty chemicals company.