Product Manager - Flavor
Date: Nov 23, 2024
Location: CN
Company: Döhler Group
Reference ID: 41582
Are you interested in high-quality, natural, and tasty nutrition?
We are! It’s our ambition to shape the future of nutrition.
Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.
We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team – together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE.
Your Responsibilities
- Developing and implementing an innovative, competitive and economically sustainable product range and a corresponding portfolio strategy for the product groups in the field of responsibility on the basis of the business unit strategy.
- Monitoring revenue development and sales activities of the products in the field of responsibility in accordance with defined performance indicators (turnover, sales, market share etc.) and developing and conducting measures for improving the revenue situation in collaboration with Sales.
- Compiling production information in collaboration with R&I and Global Food Safety & Regulatory Affairs and communicating it in in-house training sessions.
- Operative management of innovation projects in collaboration with Innovation Management, R&D and Sales.
- Creating and holding product presentations at customer workshops in collaboration with Sales.
- Providing support in defining the pricing strategy for selected product groups in consultation with Pricing and, if necessary, Sales.
- Market and competition analysis concerning ingredients and concepts relevant to specific product groups.
- Preparing and conducting trade fair appearances in collaboration with Corporate Marketing.
- Providing support in the development and implementation of business development strategies for expanding the market share.
- Ensuring an optimum exchange of information within the division and with the interfaces.
- Optimal and consequent usage of the digital systems and initiation of optimizations for a penetrating digitization of the business processes.
Your Profile
- Bachelor Degree or above, preferably in food technology;
- 8+ years’ experience in technical, product management, sales or marketing;
- Familiar with flavor application in food and beverage would be preferred;
- Good communication skills;
- English as working language.
Your Benefits
- Culture: Friendly and informal atmosphere, family-owned company, flat hierarchies, short communication channels, and helpful colleagues
- Impact: You are an integral part of our business success and make an important contribution to the future of nutrition
- Empowerment: You can fully unleash your potential and have the opportunity to take on responsibilities
- Digitalization: We maintain excellent partnerships with market-leading innovators, allowing you to access and work with state-of-the-art technologies
- Anniversary and special payments
- Employee referral bonuses
- Döhler Academy: You have the opportunity to continuously develop your education further through internal and external training programs
- Food is taken care of: On-site cafeteria with regional and varied cuisine and complimentary drinks
Equal opportunities for all
We welcome applicants, who are just as diverse as we are - regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Become a part of our team and apply online trough our career portal to the attention of Wendy Lu. Please note that we are unable to consider or return application documents sent by mail.