Mid Level Commercial Director Jobs
Mid level commercial director jobs go to professionals ready to own commercial strategies end to end, guide junior colleagues, and drive revenue decisions with limited oversight. Hiring runs across Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare & Medical Services, and Manufacturing, with 40% of openings remote or hybrid, and employers like Danaher Corporation, Albemarle, and Glory Global Solutions competing for commercial directors at this level now.
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Job Description
Be an essential element to a brighter future.
We work together to transform essential resources into critical ingredients for mobility, energy, connectivity and health. Join our values-led organization committed to building a more resilient world with people and planet in mind. Our core values are the foundation that make us successful for ourselves, our customers and the planet.
Job Description
Albemarle is hiring for a Director, Commercial Analytics & Strategic Insights . This position is hybrid and located in Charlotte, NC.
Introduce the Role
As the Director, Commercial Analytics and Strategic Insights, you will lead our evolution from product-focused data delivery to market-back, customer-centric strategic growth intelligence to support AI-enabled business transformation. You will equip Marketing, Commercial and Business leaders with the clarity, foresight and market intelligence needed to confidently identify new growth vectors, accurately size potential opportunities, and aggressively capture our share of those markets.
This role is central to shaping Albemarle’s differentiated outside-in view of markets, customers, competitive dynamics, and future demand. By moving from reporting to AI-enabled forward-looking insights, you will help the organization toward the most valuable, market-back, customer-centric growth opportunities and optimize our commercial execution.
What You Will Do
Drive Market-Back Growth Intelligence: Lead the shift from reporting and data outputs to decision-ready insight products that define market sizes, uncover customer-centric growth priorities, and identify Albemarle’s share of wallet.
Embed economic context and market interpretation into analytics, translating findings into strategic recommendations.
Clarify Market Sizing & Opportunity Identification: Maintain a robust framework for clarifying Total Addressable Market (TAM), Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM), and Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM) across current and adjacent specialty chemical segments.
Track and Analyze Market Share: Build continuous tracking mechanisms to evaluate Albemarle’s market share performance, identifying where we are winning, where whitespace exists and where competitive displacement risks lie.
Translate Commercial Questions into Action: Translate complex commercial questions into structured analytics and strategic insights that directly inform growth priorities, portfolio choices, and business decisions.
Partner closely with Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Product Management, among others to frame critical business questions and prioritize insight and data transformation initiatives.
Integrate Voice of Customer (VoC) with Market Context: Fuse primary and secondary research, including Voice of Customer (VOC) data with macroeconomic indicators to build a 360-degree view of market and customer needs and shifting value chains. Develop a connected view of the market, customer, and competitive landscape.
Operationalize Proprietary Market Intelligence: Develop Albemarle’s proprietary market perspective, combining internal commercial expertise with external data, market signals and demand-elasticity indicators.
Scale Foresight via Advanced Analytics and AI: Build predictive scenario planning, demand forecasting, and decision-support capabilities, leveraging AI and intelligent automation to identify market inflection points before they happen.
Lead and Inspire High-Impact Team: Develop a high-performing analytics team focused on commercial relevance, insights storytelling, continuous improvement and driving measurable enterprise growth.
Lead transformation initiatives that simplify processes, improve speed to insight, and embed analytics, AI, and automation into day-to-day business operations.
Drive adoption of insights, tools, and new ways of working: through compelling narratives, visualizations, executive-ready communication, and change leadership.
What you will bring
Required
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Economics, Business, Statistics, Market Research, or a related field.
Experience: 10+ years of experience in commercial strategy, market intelligence, business insights, or analytics transformation roles.
Leadership: 5+ years of experience leading and developing analytics, insights, decision-support, or analytics transformation-focused teams
Strategic Capability: Proven ability to translate business questions into analytical approaches and actionable insights that shape decisions and drive business outcomes. Proven ability to build market sizing models (TAM/SAM/SOM) and execute market share analysis that successfully shape commercial growth strategies.
Data Integration: Strong experience integrating disparate commercial data, customer research, and external market indicators using BI, visualization, and analytical tools.
Change Management: Experience leading transformation initiatives and applying AI or automation tools to improve decision-making speed, workflows, and commercial effectiveness.
Great If You Also Have:
Advanced degree (MBA, Master’s, or PhD) in Analytics, Economics, Business or Market Research.
Deep experience in B2B specialty chemicals, advanced materials, or highly technical industrial value chains.
Advanced expertise in economic modeling, predictive demand forecasting, scenario planning, competitor benchmarking, and pricing elasticity for commercial decision support.
Exceptional executive communication and insight storytelling skills – the ability to turn complex market data into a clear, compelling commercial narrative.
Experience building and AI-enabled market-sensing tools or automated market and competitive intelligence workflows.
Proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders to shift from internal product-centric planning to market-back strategy setting and execution key business priorities and transformation opportunities.
Experience building market viewpoints, proprietary insight models, or enterprise intelligence capabilities.
At Albemarle, we embrace the diversity of experience, talent, and thought. We work hard to create an inclusive work environment that empowers you to openly and honestly communicate, create and innovate. Your career will have global reach from the United States to Australia. Your decision to join our team will be rewarded with a positive, team-oriented workplace that inspires personal and professional growth. We will make every effort to support your career goals and create opportunities for you to realize your full potential. This is our culture. This is our commitment.
Benefits of Joining Albemarle
Competitive compensation
Comprehensive benefits package
A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.
We are partners to one another in pioneering new ways to be better for ourselves, our teams, and our communities. When you join Albemarle, you become our most essential element and you can anticipate competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and resources that foster your well-being and fuel your personal growth. Help us shape the future, build with purpose and grow together.
Job Description
Be an essential element to a brighter future.
We work together to transform essential resources into critical ingredients for mobility, energy, connectivity and health. Join our values-led organization committed to building a more resilient world with people and planet in mind. Our core values are the foundation that make us successful for ourselves, our customers and the planet.
Job Description
Albemarle is hiring for a Director, Commercial Analytics & Strategic Insights . This position is hybrid and located in Charlotte, NC.
Introduce the Role
As the Director, Commercial Analytics and Strategic Insights, you will lead our evolution from product-focused data delivery to market-back, customer-centric strategic growth intelligence to support AI-enabled business transformation. You will equip Marketing, Commercial and Business leaders with the clarity, foresight and market intelligence needed to confidently identify new growth vectors, accurately size potential opportunities, and aggressively capture our share of those markets.
This role is central to shaping Albemarle’s differentiated outside-in view of markets, customers, competitive dynamics, and future demand. By moving from reporting to AI-enabled forward-looking insights, you will help the organization toward the most valuable, market-back, customer-centric growth opportunities and optimize our commercial execution.
What You Will Do
Drive Market-Back Growth Intelligence: Lead the shift from reporting and data outputs to decision-ready insight products that define market sizes, uncover customer-centric growth priorities, and identify Albemarle’s share of wallet.
Embed economic context and market interpretation into analytics, translating findings into strategic recommendations.
Clarify Market Sizing & Opportunity Identification: Maintain a robust framework for clarifying Total Addressable Market (TAM), Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM), and Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM) across current and adjacent specialty chemical segments.
Track and Analyze Market Share: Build continuous tracking mechanisms to evaluate Albemarle’s market share performance, identifying where we are winning, where whitespace exists and where competitive displacement risks lie.
Translate Commercial Questions into Action: Translate complex commercial questions into structured analytics and strategic insights that directly inform growth priorities, portfolio choices, and business decisions.
Partner closely with Strategy, Marketing, Sales, Product Management, among others to frame critical business questions and prioritize insight and data transformation initiatives.
Integrate Voice of Customer (VoC) with Market Context: Fuse primary and secondary research, including Voice of Customer (VOC) data with macroeconomic indicators to build a 360-degree view of market and customer needs and shifting value chains. Develop a connected view of the market, customer, and competitive landscape.
Operationalize Proprietary Market Intelligence: Develop Albemarle’s proprietary market perspective, combining internal commercial expertise with external data, market signals and demand-elasticity indicators.
Scale Foresight via Advanced Analytics and AI: Build predictive scenario planning, demand forecasting, and decision-support capabilities, leveraging AI and intelligent automation to identify market inflection points before they happen.
Lead and Inspire High-Impact Team: Develop a high-performing analytics team focused on commercial relevance, insights storytelling, continuous improvement and driving measurable enterprise growth.
Lead transformation initiatives that simplify processes, improve speed to insight, and embed analytics, AI, and automation into day-to-day business operations.
Drive adoption of insights, tools, and new ways of working: through compelling narratives, visualizations, executive-ready communication, and change leadership.
What you will bring
Required
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Economics, Business, Statistics, Market Research, or a related field.
Experience: 10+ years of experience in commercial strategy, market intelligence, business insights, or analytics transformation roles.
Leadership: 5+ years of experience leading and developing analytics, insights, decision-support, or analytics transformation-focused teams
Strategic Capability: Proven ability to translate business questions into analytical approaches and actionable insights that shape decisions and drive business outcomes. Proven ability to build market sizing models (TAM/SAM/SOM) and execute market share analysis that successfully shape commercial growth strategies.
Data Integration: Strong experience integrating disparate commercial data, customer research, and external market indicators using BI, visualization, and analytical tools.
Change Management: Experience leading transformation initiatives and applying AI or automation tools to improve decision-making speed, workflows, and commercial effectiveness.
Great If You Also Have:
Advanced degree (MBA, Master’s, or PhD) in Analytics, Economics, Business or Market Research.
Deep experience in B2B specialty chemicals, advanced materials, or highly technical industrial value chains.
Advanced expertise in economic modeling, predictive demand forecasting, scenario planning, competitor benchmarking, and pricing elasticity for commercial decision support.
Exceptional executive communication and insight storytelling skills – the ability to turn complex market data into a clear, compelling commercial narrative.
Experience building and AI-enabled market-sensing tools or automated market and competitive intelligence workflows.
Proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders to shift from internal product-centric planning to market-back strategy setting and execution key business priorities and transformation opportunities.
Experience building market viewpoints, proprietary insight models, or enterprise intelligence capabilities.
At Albemarle, we embrace the diversity of experience, talent, and thought. We work hard to create an inclusive work environment that empowers you to openly and honestly communicate, create and innovate. Your career will have global reach from the United States to Australia. Your decision to join our team will be rewarded with a positive, team-oriented workplace that inspires personal and professional growth. We will make every effort to support your career goals and create opportunities for you to realize your full potential. This is our culture. This is our commitment.
Benefits of Joining Albemarle
Competitive compensation
Comprehensive benefits package
A diverse array of resources to support you professionally and personally.
We are partners to one another in pioneering new ways to be better for ourselves, our teams, and our communities. When you join Albemarle, you become our most essential element and you can anticipate competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and resources that foster your well-being and fuel your personal growth. Help us shape the future, build with purpose and grow together.
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Who's Hiring
- Danaher Corporation4
- Albemarle2
- Glory Global Solutions2
- Aon1
- BHI1
Top Industries Hiring
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals8
- Healthcare & Medical Services6
- Manufacturing5
- Medical Devices4
- Chemicals & Materials3
Mid Level Commercial Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a mid level commercial director job?
Position your experience around commercial outcomes you owned directly, such as deals closed, revenue targets hit, or client relationships you managed independently. Highlight moments where you operated with real autonomy, not just supporting a senior leader. Applications that show a clear through-line from your work to measurable business results tend to stand out at this level. Tailor each application to the company's market and growth stage.
Which companies hire mid level commercial directors?
Companies hiring mid level commercial directors right now include Danaher Corporation, Albemarle, and Glory Global Solutions, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. Hiring at this level comes from a broad mix of growth-stage businesses and established enterprises that need directors who can run commercial workstreams without heavy senior supervision.
Are there remote mid level commercial director jobs?
Yes, though availability varies by industry and company size. About 40% of mid level commercial director openings are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, making flexible arrangements common at this stage. Roles involving high-touch client negotiations or cross-functional leadership often lean hybrid, while strategy-focused or analytics-heavy positions are more likely to be fully remote.
How do I move up to a mid level commercial director role?
The path from entry level into a mid level commercial director role is built through progressively deeper ownership over time. Early-career work in sales, business development, or account management gives the foundation, but moving up requires demonstrating that you can run a commercial workstream from start to finish, measure your own impact, and influence outcomes beyond your immediate tasks. Consistent delivery on targets and building a reputation for commercial judgment across projects typically drives that transition.
Which industries hire the most mid level commercial directors?
Mid Level commercial director roles concentrate in Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare & Medical Services, and Manufacturing, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. Those sectors tend to drive hiring at this level because they operate in competitive, revenue-sensitive environments where experienced commercial talent that can work independently delivers the most immediate business impact.