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Category Marketing Manager, Automation

Middleton, WIOnsiteFull TimeManager / HeadPosted 2 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Category Marketing Manager
  • Automation
  • laboratory automation
  • product marketing
  • category marketing
  • business development
  • commercial marketing
  • product launches
  • demand-generation campaigns
  • positioning

Nice to have

  • marketing specialization
  • Account-Based Marketing
  • Salesforce

Role summary

We are seeking a Category Marketing Manager, Automation to lead marketing strategies for laboratory automation solutions. This role involves developing and executing campaigns, managing product launches, and translating complex scientific information into compelling customer value. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in product or category marketing within the life sciences or related fields, with a strong track record in demand generation, digital marketing, and analytics. This position requires a deep understanding of the laboratory automation market and the ability to collaborate across technical, scientific, sales, and marketing teams to drive commercial growth.

Category Marketing Manager, Automation

Middleton, WI

Where science meets strategy and marketing drives growth.

Are you a marketer who gets excited about science, technology, and turning complex solutions into compelling customer stories? We’re looking for a Category Marketing Manager, Automation to help shape how our laboratory automation solutions are positioned, launched, and brought to market.

In this highly visible role, you’ll sit at the intersection of Marketing, Sales, Product, Applications, and our customers, transforming market insights into campaigns and go-to-market strategies that generate demand and fuel commercial growth. 

What You’ll Make Happen

  • Own the marketing strategy for our laboratory automation portfolio, developing campaigns and programs that connect with the right customers at the right time.
  • Create demand and accelerate growth through digital campaigns, webinars, scientific content, events, email nurturing, paid media, and account-based marketing.
  • Bring new solutions to market by helping lead product launches, messaging, customer segmentation, value propositions, and commercialization plans.
  • Turn science into a story by translating complex laboratory workflows and technical capabilities into clear, compelling customer value.
  • Know the market by staying close to customers, competitors, emerging trends, and the challenges laboratories are trying to solve.
  • Partner closely with Sales to strengthen lead generation, nurturing, qualification, and MQL-to-SQL conversion.
  • Measure what matters, using campaign, pipeline, and customer data to continuously improve marketing investments and results.
  • Be a voice for automation at trade shows, conferences, webinars, and other industry events. 

What You Bring

  • Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Biotechnology, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Marketing, or a related field. MBA or marketing specialization is a plus.
  • 5+ years of experience in product marketing, category marketing, business development, or commercial marketing.
  • Experience in laboratory automation, liquid handling, genomics, molecular biology, diagnostics, analytical chemistry, life science instrumentation, or a related market.
  • A track record of successfully supporting product launches and demand-generation campaigns.
  • Strong skills in positioning, messaging, go-to-market strategy, digital marketing, and content development.
  • A collaborative mindset and the ability to work across technical, scientific, sales, and marketing teams.
  • The ability to take something technically complex and make the customer value simple, relevant, and compelling. 

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you’re energized by science, automation, customer insights, and building marketing programs that drive real commercial results, this could be the opportunity for you.

Join us and help shape how the next generation of laboratory automation solutions reaches the scientists and laboratories that need them.

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