Hiring: Manager, Strategic Market Development Company: Shure Location: Niles, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 16:30:00 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility About the job Experience: •8 years of experience in strategic market development, business development, application engineering, solution selling, product marketing, or a similar role with a global focus. Required Skills: •Serve as the voice of the customer by providing impartial, data-based analysis of global trends, workflows, and unmet needs across priority applications, end-user environments, and buying scenarios. •Stay ahead of trends and external influences, continuously identifying and quantifying new market and application-led growth opportunities •Translate market, customer, and application insight into clear opportunity narratives and commercially relevant guidance. Collaborate closely with GM, GPM, Strategy & Innovation, PDD, CMI, Business Analytics, Solutions, Marketing, and local sales teams to ensure alignment between market opportunity, positioning, and execution. •Partner with regional Market Development teams, Regional Product Managers, and sales leaders through structured engagements to activate identified opportunities, support strategic pursuit efforts, and share repeatable best practices globally. •Establish touchpoints internally and externally to ensure cohesion and consistency across divisions and regions. Represent Shure with global professional bodies, associations, and key market ecosystems, while gathering feedback from field teams and external stakeholders to assess scalable global opportunities. •Provide efficient access to end-user, workflow, and market information that improves field readiness, supports trials and strategic seeding, and strengthens application-specific value positioning to optimize impact and ROI. •Research and help expand sales channels, partner ecosystems, and commercial pathways for Shure solutions, maximizing market reach and accessibility. •Develop and share repeatable plays, messaging approaches, and partnership insights that improve opportunity pursuit and support global adoption of successful market development strategies. Qualifications: •Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Audio, Technology, or a related field. •Minimum of 8 years of experience in strategic market development, business development, application engineering, solution selling, product marketing, or a similar role with a global focus. •In-depth knowledge of market trends, customer workflows, use cases, and buying dynamics across regions and complex B2B environments. •Demonstrates a proactive and accountable mindset, enabling the successful completion of tasks independently with minimal supervision. •Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to gather and interpret market, customer, and application insight to identify growth opportunities and trends. •Proven ability to translate technical or application knowledge into clear commercial opportunities, practical sales guidance, and scalable growth strategies. •Strong communication skills, both verbal and written in English, with the ability to simplify complexity and effectively engage internal and external stakeholders. •Knowledge of sales channels, partner ecosystems, and go-to-market motions, with the ability to expand and optimize commercial reach. •Operational familiarity with global user communities, industry associations, and customer ecosystems, and the ability to establish strong market presence and partnerships. •Willingness to travel as needed to support global market development initiatives, with a minimum expectation of 25% travel. Compensation: •$109,400 - $186,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Competitive benefits and rewards package Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!