Dairy Specialist – Product Manager Food Ingredients
Foodjob Nordic is looking for a Dairy Specialist – Product Manager for the Nordic Region. The right candidate will be responsible for a significant portfolio of dairy ingredients and is able to manage and grow business in specific targeted accounts. Our client is a successful and ambitious global market leader on specialized food ingredients, and the client is now looking to expand business on key markets and accounts. The right candidate has a strong drive and is a self-starting business professional with excellent communication skills, and experience within the food industry and the use of ingredients.
Some important focus points are:
- Interface strongly with key customers on R&D, application, purchase and marketing
- Internal and external coordination and knowledge sharing
- Interface strongly with key customers and internal applications team
- Ensure best practice of CRM for the customer accounts
- Participate in gathering market/customer intelligence for Global and Regional Account teams
- Development and improvement of concepts and products
- Executes pricing strategy and price negotiations
Qualifications:
- Educated with a Degree level (Food Science/Agronomy/Technology)
- Experience in customer interfacing and managing customer relationships
- Combines a commercial mindset and drive with specialist technical knowledge
- Strong project management skills, high integrity and thought leadership skills
- Fluent in English and at least one Scandinavian language (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian) – professional language skills is required in English
- Based in the Copenhagen/Malmo Area and willing to travel around
Key Performance Indicators:
- Sales contribution from area of responsibility
- Development of high value add business in area of responsibility
- Ability to make strong sales presentations
- Impact of new sales and marketing initiatives in area of responsibility
- Ability to read market trends
- Develop strong relationships with customers (able to interact strongly with both technical, marketing and purchase departments)
Salary and location:
- Home based – attractive salary + pension + benefits
Further information and application
Director Mads Kinch Clemmensen from Foodjob Nordic, tel. +45 2912 6119, email: [email protected] can be contacted for further information on the position.
Foodjob Nordic ensures absolute discretion for all applicants.
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