Senior Manager- Vertical Marketing

What Timken makes possible begins with you. Those who came before us helped land a man on the moon, create the world's infrastructure, and introduce renewable energy alternatives. Now you can join the Timken team to write your own unique story and help drive what's next.   A career at Timken means you can have an immediate impact doing Work That Matters to the world— improving the efficiency of today's industrial equipment and preparing for the future of motion on our planet and beyond. New employees can start contributing right away, and there are many opportunities to advance your career at your own pace. Join our global team of 19,000 people in 45 countries, and start helping our customers push the limits of what's possible in their world of motion.     The Senior Manager – Vertical Marketing leads the development of growth strategies for 2-3 of Timken’s strategic vertical markets, as well as priority Key Accounts. Managing a small team of Vertical Market Insights Specialists, the Senior Manager coordinates cross-functional strategy creation and alignment across Product, Commercial, Operations and Regional teams to frame and evaluate where-to-play and how-to-win choices designed to accelerate organic growth. The Senior Manager also helps build and codify proprietary strategy processes, frameworks and approaches used to create repeatable growth strategies across verticals and accounts.   Key Responsibilities:   Lead vertical and Key Account strategy development

Lead strategy development for assigned strategic vertical markets and priority Key Accounts. Translate market, application, customer, competitive, and account insights into strategic options for where to play, how to win, and what must be true. Define the strategy agenda, key questions, workplan, decision points, and outputs required to move from insight development to growth strategy.

Manage and develop members of the Vertical Market Insights Specialist team

Manage a small team of Vertical Market Insights Specialists, including workstream assignment, coaching, feedback, and capability development. Ensure research, analysis, synthesis, and deliverables meet the quality, rigor, and strategic relevance required to support high-confidence growth decisions. Build team capability in Timken’s proprietary strategy processes, frameworks, research methods, and activation planning approaches.

Orchestrate cross-functional alignment and decision making

Coordinate cross-functional strategy work across Product, Commercial, Operations, Finance, and Regional teams. Facilitate working sessions to align stakeholders on market attractiveness, customer needs, competitive position, opportunity priorities, and activation choices. Surface key assumptions, tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies that must be resolved to advance strategic options

Guide opportunity prioritization and portfolio choices

Lead opportunity prioritization across assigned verticals and Key Accounts using structured criteria and evidence-based discussion. Help teams evaluate market attractiveness, strategic fit, customer value, ability to win, capability requirements, accessibility, and confidence. Frame opportunity portfolios that balance near-term revenue potential, capability-building moves, and longer-term strategic growth bets

Lead market activation planning

Lead development of market activation plans for prioritized opportunities, including target segments, priority applications, value propositions, channel approach, sales motion, proof points, validation needs, and execution milestones. Partner with Product, Commercial, Operations, and Regional teams to define the actions, owners, resources, and milestones required to execute priority opportunities.

Help build and improve repeatable strategy processes and frameworks

Help build, codify, and improve Timken’s proprietary processes, frameworks, templates, and ways of working for vertical and Key Account