Vegetable Product Manager -International M/F

Vegetable Product Manager -International M/F

We offer customers access to differentiated natural ingredient-based and sustainable solutions, as well as extended value propositions and innovative solutions.

Our core expertise at Flavor & Nutrition relates to Taste, Nutrition and Health for the Food & Beverage, Pet Food and Aquafeed industries. We are always exploring inspiring additional areas.

Taste - We support manufacturers, providing them with responsibly sourced ingredients or flavor compounds, obtained with gentle, proprietary processes to create great-tasting products and experience.

Nutrition - We provide nutritional benefits through proteins, vitamins, minerals and fiber-based solutions, extracting the best from chicken, eggs, fish, seafood, fruits and vegetables.

Health - We care for health and well-being, focusing among other things on immunity, bone health, anti-ageing and gut balancing. We provide solutions that can help bodies and minds to thrive, while continuously looking to expand our solutions to further functionalities.

Being driven by sustainability, nature serves as our day-to-day inspiration.

We support food, baby food, dietary supplement, beverage and feed manufacturers in addressing the wish for great taste, well-being and balanced nutrition. We aim to using all components of the raw material and up cycle side-streams, combine the best of nature with the best of science, to generate unique solutions for taste, nutrition and health.

Reporting to the Global Vegetables Product Line Director, your main mission will be: Deliverglobal sustainable revenue and profitability growth on the vegetable?s product range. Enable the P&L strategy set-up, execution and adaptation required. Coordinate with different regions LATAM, NAM, EMEA & APAC and functions R&D, factories, sales, supply etc, the execution of the day-to-day activity by developing the adequate offer, Product Value Proposition, trainings, product range, argumentation. Support the 4 regions in particular the Go-to-Market organizations and customers to deliver targets. Lead an Important Strategic Asset Management Project.

Manage Sales & Profit growth for your portfolio: Set global price list, floor prices & apply the pricing strategy. Recommend price ranges per volume for each SKU's and pricing/volume strategies based on raw material trends, market price. Push regions for pricing maximization.

Ensure proper Product Life Cycle Management (PLCM) including product discontinuation and overall product portfolio profit maximization.

Responsible for the inventory and related Raw Material positions in strong liaison with the Global S&OP Process & Purchasing, the regions and risk management committee.

Find; in coordination with other Product Line Managers, Symrise BU's and regions, the way to maximize attributed assets utilization, balancing specialties, and base load volumes. Propose Capex plans to fuel company strategy.

Active participation at SOIP and owner of inventory depletion (fresh aging).

Assist Product Line Director in maintaining a state-of-the-art market intelligence (competitor position, competitors? movements, new product launching etc...) and establish global TMA (Total Market Analysis).

Fuel, Challenge, arbiter and prioritize when needed, the related innovation pipe (briefs, R&D projects) to deliver PL business plan and prepare its future.

Collaborate with Regional Product Line Leaders on new product launch Drive Strategic Projects

Lead strategic and transverse projects (cross manufacturing sites, regions, etc). Deliver the content and objectives within the budget, the timeframe and the scope defined. Coordinate internal resources, third parts/vendors and relevant stakeholders for the flawless project?s execution while ensuring technical feasibility. Measure and monitor project progress & performance. Adjust and find solutions to project constraints.

Qualifications, Engineer, Business or equivalent degree and minimum 8 years? experience in a similar position in vegetable field ideally.

Your skills and technical sensitivity allow you to be a true field expert, Vegetables field ideally.

Strong leadership in the conduct of technically demanding, multi-faceted projects in an international and matrix environment.

A "general manager approach" focused on the ultimate P&L, strong customer orientation, achievement drive & strong business acumen.

Passion for consumer insight and a proven background launching new products as well as growing existing platforms and portfolios

English mandatory French ideally, Spanish will be a real plus

Proven experience in project management leading complex projects.

Good financial knowledge, ability to understand P&L (profitability, GP, CM, etc..) and maximize profitability

Use to work in a multicultural environment in a context of technical projects requiring autonomy, strength of proposal, sense of responsibility and team spirit with cross functional leadership experience.

Our Offer

Full-time permanent position based in Rennes, France ideally. An expert position opportunity with global and cross functional interaction and with a polyvalent activity. You are known to be able to lead large scale challenges? You recognized yourself in this description? Do you want to integrate an international corporation continuously investing in its production capabilities as well as in its teams? Send us your resumes quickly and apply now!. #J-18808-Ljbffr