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.