Senior Marketing Director of Digital Strategy
- Location
- Cleveland, OH
- Work type
- Full Time
- Posted
- 2026-07-23
Job description
Responsibilities
Digital Strategy & Customer Experience
Lead the definition, prioritization and governance of a multi-year digital roadmap tied to business goals, customer experience and global scalability.
Collaborate with stakeholders across business units and IT to build the best possible experience for existing and prospective customers.
Champion an AI-first mindset across the digital organization by identifying practical AI use cases, enabling responsible adoption, and guiding teams through new ways of working in partnership with the centralized AI teams.
Define the digital marketing and customer experience success criteria and metrics and aligns them with the Group’s strategic goals.
Work in partnership with IT to ensure that the organization has the right portfolio of tools to deliver the marketing strategy and meet the business goals.
Articulate and champion the digital vision and strategy across internal stakeholders to support and ensure the alignment, budget, and change management required to create and sustain PCG wide digital marketing capabilities.
Leadership & Operational Planning
Act as a transformation champion, aligning cross-functional stakeholders across Sales, IT, Marketing, Operations, Infrastructure, and Finance to shared digital outcomes.
Manage the business team responsible for PCG website strategy, Operations and UX
Research, Build and Present business cases linking to digital investment to ROI.
Lead governance and steering committees to prioritize initiatives, allocate resources and ensure alignment with goals.
Act as a persuasive communicator and change agent, securing executive buy-in and driving adoption of new tools, platforms and processes
Promote transparency, shared learning, and cross-team alignment through regular communication, reporting and stakeholder engagement.
Websites
Lead strategy and prioritization program to rationalize, consolidate or update Sherwin branded and private label websites across the globe.
Oversee launch of planned website experiences
Manage Agency relationships, timelines, and project management
Ensure a consistent branding message and alignment through VOC research and insights
Ensure compliance, security, and privacy across digital platforms.
Digital Tools & Innovation
Lead strategy and scaling of customer-facing digital tools that enhance workflows and productivity. Integrate digital tools across websites, eCommerce, CRM, and data platforms.
Design and manage a connected Martech architecture that powers personalized and automated customer engagement.
Leverage AI and automation to improve business outcomes. Drive innovation from concept to scaled impact.
Ecommerce & Digital Self Service Tools
Drive the Global eCommerce Strategy for Industrial businesses through discovery and unlocking new fulfillment models.
Build the strategic roadmap to implement and maintain scalable and reusable capabilities to support multiple businesses, segments, and regions.
Establish and implement a customer segmentation model that shifts lower-volume customers to digital-first engagement, enabling Sales to focus on high-potential relationships.
Building Talent and Digital Skillsets Across the Organization
Build and develop a high performing digital team through selecting, hiring, planning, and developing individuals to enhance their job performance. This supports our goals of creating a high-performance culture and increasing global focus.
Makes appropriate selection decisions—Compares candidate strengths to selection criteria.
Establishes performance & development plan—Identifies activities using diverse learning methods; defines success measures.
Creates a learning environment—Create digital learning capabilities across all of b2b industrial talent
Promotes recognition—Acknowledges individual performance and contributions.
Champions diversity and inclusion—Advocates for diversity; initiates inclusive recruiting and development; confronts inappropriate behavior.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age
Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future
Must have a Master’s degree in business, marketing, MIS, communications, or related field.
Must have at least fifteen (15) or more years of digital marketing, ecommerce & technology leadership experience leading cross functional teams and large complex programs
Must have at least one (1) year experience in digital marketing, Digital Customer Experience in B2B
Must have a deep understanding of the evolving digital marketing and MarTech and AI landscape
Must have at least one (1) year experience with AEM and or Adobe tools, Shopify, Ecommerce technology is preferred
Must have at least one (1) year experience with Microsoft Office products
Preferred Qualifications:
Have experience in the coatings industry