Senior Marketing Manager, Ecolab Digital - Life Sciences - Remote

Ecolab is building the next generation of digital solutions for pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, quality, contamination control, and operational excellence.

We are seeking a senior leader to define product strategy, drive commercialization, and accelerate growth across our Life Sciences Digital portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of product management, product marketing, customer engagement, and business strategy.

 

The successful candidate will partner closely with Digital, Commercial, R&D, and Life Sciences teams to shape portfolio direction, identify market opportunities, launch innovative software solutions, and create differentiated value for pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers.

 

This role offers the opportunity to influence one of Ecolab's highest-priority growth investments and help establish the future of digital solutions across the life sciences industry.

 

 

What You Will Do

 

Product Strategy & Portfolio Leadership

• Define and execute growth strategies for the Life Sciences Digital portfolio.
• Partner with product, engineering, commercial, and divisional leaders to prioritize investments and shape product roadmaps.
• Identify emerging customer needs, technology trends, and market opportunities to guide product strategy.
• Develop business cases for new products, capabilities, partnerships, and business models.
• Lead portfolio planning from concept through commercialization.
• Identify new revenue opportunities, including SaaS, data-driven services, analytics, AI-enabled solutions, and digital platforms.
• Drive strategic planning and portfolio reviews with executive leadership.

Customer & Market Leadership

• Build a deep understanding of pharmaceutical and biotechnology customer workflows, challenges, and priorities.
• Conduct customer discovery, market research, competitive analysis, and voice-of-customer programs.
• Monitor market trends, competitive activity, and customer adoption patterns.
• Translate customer insights into actionable product and commercial strategies.

Product Commercialization

• Define positioning, messaging, value propositions, pricing strategies, and commercialization plans.
• Partner with sales, business development, and segment marketing teams to drive demand generation and pipeline growth.
• Develop launch plans and enablement programs for new software offerings.
• Measure commercialization effectiveness and optimize go-to-market performance.

Innovation & Growth

• Identify portfolio gaps and growth opportunities.
• Support strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and ecosystem opportunities.
• Drive the incubation and launch of new digital offerings and business models.
• Help establish Ecolab as a recognized leader in Life Sciences digital innovation.

 

 

What Success Looks Like

Within the first 12-24 months, this leader will:

• Help define the strategic direction of the Life Sciences Digital portfolio.
• Launch and commercialize new software and digital offerings.
• Strengthen market positioning and customer adoption.
• Improve portfolio growth, pipeline generation, and market awareness.
• Build stronger connections between product strategy, customer needs, and commercial execution.

 

 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, business, computer science, or related field.
• 10 years of experience in life sciences, software, industrial technology, or related industries.
• 5 years of experience in product management, product marketing, product strategy, portfolio management, or commercialization leadership.
• Experience launching and growing software, SaaS, digital, data, or technology-enabled solutions.
• Experience building business cases and influencing executive stakeholders.
• Authorization to work in the United States.

 

 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience serving pharmaceutical, biotechnology, laboratory, quality, manufacturing, or regulated industries.
• Experience with SaaS business models and software commercialization.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical development, manufacturing, quality, validation, or contamination control processes.
• Product launch, pricing, and portfolio management experience.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Experience working with product management, software engineering, and commercial organizations.

The base salary range for this position is $133,700.00 - $200,600.00. This position is eligible for annual bonus pay based on performance, per plan terms. Many factors are taken into consideration when determining compensation, such as experience, education, training, geography, etc. We comply with all minimum wage and overtime laws.

Benefits 

Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. Click here to see our benefits. 

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Potential Customer Requirements Notice

To meet customer requirements and comply with local or state regulations, applicants for certain customer-facing roles may need to:

- Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 

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