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The role oversees brand, communications, creative services, digital marketing, events, and marketing operations while partnering closely with business leaders, Product Management, Sales, and Pricing.\nThis is not a traditional corporate communications role. It requires someone who understands how marketing supports commercial performance and can connect customer needs, market insight, business priorities, and strong execution.\nThe right person will bring clarity, establish better ways of working, develop people, and raise the standard for how marketing supports the business. Over time, this role may expand into broader collaboration on commercial capabilities such as product positioning, market intelligence, and product pricing.\nCore Responsibilities\nSet the overall marketing strategy and operating priorities in support of business and growth objectives.\nLead and develop the marketing team, providing clear expectations, coaching, feedback, and opportunities to build new capabilities.\nServe as a trusted marketing advisor to business leaders, helping translate commercial priorities into focused plans and effective execution.\nOversee communications, creative services, digital channels, websites, social media, events, campaigns, and other major customer touchpoints.\nOwn dealer and channel communications, ensuring partners receive clear, timely, and coordinated information about products, programs, pricing, and business priorities.\nLead the marketing strategy, communication, and execution support for dealer incentive and commercial programs, working with 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improve effectiveness and extend the team’s capacity.\nEstablish meaningful measures of marketing performance and use results to improve priorities, investment decisions, and execution.\nManage outside agencies, vendors, budgets, and other marketing resources with appropriate discipline and accountability.\nIdentify gaps in talent, tools, processes, and capabilities, and develop practical plans to address them.\nTake ownership for moving work forward, resolving competing priorities, and ensuring decisions translate into action.\nMarketing Capability and Technology\nModernize the way marketing work is planned, developed, delivered, and measured.\nUse technology to reduce manual work, shorten cycle times, improve consistency, and enable a small team to deliver greater impact.\nBuild practical capability in areas such as marketing automation, digital customer experience, content management, CRM, analytics, AI-supported workflows, and performance reporting.\nEnsure technology serves a 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organizational capability.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex issues and communicate directly.\nDemonstrated ownership, sound judgment, and consistent follow-through.\nPreferred, but Not Required\nExperience developing product positioning, value propositions, competitive differentiation, and go-to-market strategies.\nExperience with product pricing, pricing strategy, value-based pricing, commercial programs, or price realization.\nExperience in agriculture, industrial equipment, manufacturing, construction, or another complex business-to-business environment.\nExperience supporting businesses that sell through dealers, distributors, contractors, or other channel partners.\nExperience managing a portfolio of brands or supporting multiple business units.\nExperience introducing marketing automation, CRM, analytics, AI, or other technologies that improve team effectiveness.\nExperience in seasonal, cyclical, or 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This is dependent upon job related knowledge, experience, and skills.\n\nBenefits will include the ability to elect health care and wellness plans, dental and vision plans, flexible and virtual work options (where available), 401(k) Savings Plan with company match, paid holidays, paid time off, health savings and flexible spending accounts, reimbursement for continuing education, life insurance, and other supplemental insurance plans.\n\nYour Workplace and Travel\nYou will be working an onsite role based out of Assumption, IL. \n\nWe value inclusion and recognize the innovation a diverse workforce delivers to our farmers. Through our recruitment efforts, we are committed to building a team that includes a variety of experiences, backgrounds, cultures and perspectives.\n\nJoin us as we bring agriculture into the future and apply now!\n\nGrain & Protein Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.\n\n1. GPT Purpose: Feeding the World Better, through high quality grain and responsibly raised protein\n2. GPT Mission: Make Farmers and Agribusiness Managers more productive and more profitable\n3. GPT Culture: Winning Values and Winning Behaviors that nurtures a “Winners Win” culture of excellence\n4. 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