Marketing Director HNC LATAM

Job Title: Marketing Director LATAM - Healh Nutrition & Care
Location: São Paulo, Brazil

This role plays a critical part in translating global strategy into high-impact regional execution, leading innovation, go-to-market, and commercial excellence initiatives across Latin America, while managing a regional marketing team and maintaining strong interaction with global stakeholders, co-owning, prioritizing and executing key initiatives together with the sales team (for key customers) to implement our key strategic tasks in the regions, driving differentiation and solution selling.

At dsm-firmenich people are at the heart of the company. We are committed to equal employment opportunities and value diversity in the workplace.

Your key responsibilities

Translate global strategies into actionable regional plans, including target setting
Lead regional market shaping initiatives to influence consumer perception and demand
Execute and monitor regional go-to-market plans, tracking KPIs and ensuring disciplined execution
Adapt global value propositions to local regulatory, cultural, and market dynamics
Drive regional product launches, ensuring alignment with global strategies and local readiness
Lead innovation initiatives and identify “white space” opportunities through customer and market mapping and Influence and drive strategy execution together with sales teams. Own and optimize opex investiments. Deliver financial results of marketing segments, including running business (short term) and new business (mid/long term)

We bring

Empowerment to make meaningful contributions while upholding ethical standards.
Recognition and celebration of your efforts and accomplishments.
Opportunities for growth and advancement for those who embrace innovation and take initiative.
Collaboration with experts in health, nutrition, and beauty to drive progress.
Customer-first approach, working with world-renowned brands to turn ideas into impactful solutions.
Opportunity to build a career making a significant impact on billions of lives, with the freedom to shape your own path.

You Bring

Solid experience in Marketing leadership roles, preferably with regional (LATAM) scope, combined with a strong background in B2B marketing—ideally within ingredients, nutrition, pharma, or related industries—and a strong consumer-oriented mindset.
Proven experience in translating global strategies into regional execution and driving go-to-market initiatives
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across matrix organizations
Experience leading multicultural teams and working in highly collaborative environments
Fluent English and advanced Spanish are mandatory
Consumer orientation of key trends and categories where to play (and not to play); Customer´s brand deep analysis and understand of their strategic movements (consumer brands like Centrum, NAN, Aptamil, etc)

About dsm-firmenich

At dsm-firmenich, we don’t just meet expectations – we go beyond them.

Join our global team powered by science, creativity, and a shared purpose: to bring progress to life.

From elevating health to making fortified food and sustainable skincare, the impact of your work here will be felt by millions – every single day. Whether it’s fragrance that helps you focus, alternative meat that’s better for the planet, or reducing sugar without losing flavor, this is where you help shape the future of nutrition, health, and beauty for everyone, everywhere.

And while you’re making a difference, we’ll make sure you’re growing too. With learning that never stops, a culture that lifts you up and the freedom to move across businesses, teams, and borders. Your voice matters here. And your ideas? They’re essential to our future.

Because real progress only happens when we go beyond, together.

Inclusion, belonging and equal opportunity statement:

At dsm-firmenich, we believe being a force for good starts with the way we treat each other. When people feel supported, included, and free to be themselves, they do their best work – and that’s exactly the kind of culture we’re building. A place where opportunity is truly equal, authenticity is celebrated, and everyone has the chance to grow, contribute, and feel they belong.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we’re serious about making our hiring process as fair and inclusive as possible. From inclusive language and diverse interview panels to thoughtful sourcing, we’re committed to reflecting the world we serve.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds — no matter your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or anything else that makes you, you.