Position Technical Marketing Manager- Hybrid - Rogers Corporation : Job Details

Location: Bear, DE, US, 19701

Job Category: Sales

Shift: Shift 1

Full Time / Part Time: Full-Time

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Approximate Travel: 25%

Job Description:

The Technical Marketing Manager is responsible for translating complex technical capabilities into clear, compelling value propositions that resonate with customers. The role bridges the gap between sales, research and development, product management, and marketing to ensure that technical strengths are effectively communicated through content, campaigns, and customer facing materials. The Technical Marketing Manager evangelizes voice-of-customer, drives go to market strategies, support product launches, and delivers technical collateral that positions the company as a leader in innovation and performance.

Position will be based out of our Bear, DE facility and will be supporting our ARLON products within our Elastomeric Material Solutions Division. After fully trained, this position will be eligible for a hybrid work arrangement which would be 3 days in the office and 2 days remote.

Essential Functions:

• Develop Technical Marketing Content: Create high impact white papers, case studies, technical presentations, and application guides that highlight the performance, processing benefits, and unique properties of our products.
• Support Product Launches: Drive go to market efforts for new products by coordinating technical messaging, positioning, and collateral with product management, R&D and sales.
• Sales Enablement: Develop and deliver technical sales tools-performance comparisons, application matrices, value propositions, training decks, and competitive differentiation materials to support customer engagement and opportunity conversion.
• Application & Market Analysis: Conduct detailed market and application research within key industries (e.g. automotive, electronics, industrial, aerospace) to identify opportunities, define technical positioning, and support strategic initiatives.
• Customer Focused Messaging: Translate complex product and performance characteristics into clear, customer centric messaging that aligns with regulatory, environmental, and industry specific requirements.
• Technical Liaison Role: Act as bridge between technical teams (R&D, Applications Engineering) and commercial teams (Sales, Marketing) to ensure alignment on priorities, product capabilities, and customer needs.
• Industry Engagement: Represent the company at trade shows, technical conferences, and customer meetings to communicate technical leadership, gather market intelligence and voice of customer.
• Content Lifecycle Management: Maintain accuracy and relevance of all technical marketing content, ensuring it reflects the latest testing data, compliance updates (e.g. REACH, RoHS) and formulation changes.

Qualifications:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Material Science, Marketing, Business or related technical field. May consider equivalent work experience in lieu of degree.
• 6+ years of experience in technical marketing, product management, applications engineering or technical sales within the speciality chemical or elastomer industry.
• Proven track record of developing technical content and marketing tools that influence customer decision making.
• Experience in supporting product launches and go to market strategies in B2B, industrial market environment.

Technical Skills:

• Deep understanding of speciality chemicals, elastomeric materials and end use applications across industries such as automotive, electronics, industrial, or aerospace.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret technical data and market trends, and make data driven decisions.
• Experience with data analysis tools (e.g., Excel, Power Query, PowerBI, MiniTab)
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance standards (e.g., REACH, RoHS, ISO) impacting chemical and elastomer markets.

Marketing & Communication:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to tailor complex technical contents for diverse audiences
• Experience with digital marketing tools, CRM systems, content management platforms, and product lifecycle systems (e.g., SalesForce, Pardot, SAP)

Interpersonal & Leadership:

• Strong project management and cross functional collaboration skills
• Ability to influence without direct authority and manage multiple priorities across departments.
• Customer focused mindset with strategic results driven approach.

Travel: 20-40% (domestic and international)

Who We Are and What We Are All About:

Rogers Corporation makes tomorrow's innovations possible. Help build a cleaner, safer and more connected world with a career at Rogers, where we make tomorrow's innovations possible. We rely on a talented workforce to develop our cutting edge, market-leading material technologies. Our global team develops innovative specialty materials and components that enable technology in a wide array of high-growth markets. Our customers expect high performance and reliability, so we are always looking for people who can improve processes, get results and represent a best-in-class organization. People are at the heart of all our operations, and we encourage our employees to act with integrity, creativity and excellence to help drive results worldwide.

Why Work for Rogers:

It is our commitment to get Results, but Results the Right Way. Rogers offers an exceptional work environment and a value-driven culture modeled by leadership. Employees have access to developmental opportunities as well as top-notch benefits and incentive programs. Come join a winning team!

Rogers Corporation provides equal employment opportunities to minorities, females, veterans and disabled individuals, as well as other protected groups.

About Rogers Corporation:

At Rogers Corporation (NYSE:ROG), we're changing how the world uses technology. We are a global leader in materials technology and manufacturing, producing engineered materials to power, protect and connect our world. With nearly 200 years of materials science and engineering experience, Rogers delivers high-performance solutions that enable global Advanced Electronics Solutions and Elastomeric Material Solutions, as well as other technologies where reliability is critical. Rogers enables the world's leading innovators to achieve greater performance, speed to market and reliability through our renowned technical solutions support, problem-solving and application engineering capabilities. Rogers delivers market-leading solutions for energy-efficient motor drives, vehicle electrification and alternative energy, sealing, vibration management, and impact protection in mobile devices, transportation interiors, industrial equipment and performance apparel, wireless infrastructure and automotive safety and radar systems. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona (USA), Rogers operates manufacturing facilities in the United States, China, Germany, Belgium, Hungary and South Korea, with joint ventures and sales offices worldwide.