Regional Product Manager Functional Ingredients

Contenu de l'offre Regional Product Manager Functional Ingredients chez Naturex

Naturex is a French company developing, producing and marketing natural specialty ingredients for the agri-food, health and cosmetics industries. Expert in the plant world, the group aims to actively contribute to the supply of natural solutions, through an offer oriented towards two strategic sectors: health & wellness, and food. Naturex offers a comprehensive range of natural colors and antioxidants, fruit and vegetable specialties, flavors and Phyto actives, and contribute to the development of healthier and more effective products.

With the talent of its employees, the group places sustainable development and innovation at the heart of its priorities.

Naturex, headquartered in Avignon, France, employs 1,700 people internationally. The company recently joined the Givaudan group. Givaudan and Naturex join forces to meet growing consumer demand for natural products.

We are recruiting a Regional Product Manager Functional Ingredients- permanent contract.

The Regional Product Manager is a Member of the EAME Regional Innovation Functional & Nutritional Ingredients team and is responsible for:

Managing the Product and Technology portfolio for colors, preservatives and texturisers&emulsifiers Defining innovation needs and managing the innovation pipeline Drive commercialization of innovations

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Key activities are:

Manage the Product and Technology Portfolio (colors, preservation, texturisers & emulsifiers):

Manage assigned regional product portfolio to ensure it is relevant, competitive, profitable and aligned with the business strategy; Become the regional subject matter expert for assigned products and technologies; Actively manage the existing product portfolio, identify non-performing products and recommend deletion where appropriate; Help deliver Sales and Gross Margin targets, working closely with Sales and Marketing.

Define Innovation needs and manage the innovation pipeline:

Manage the complete Innovation pipeline, leading complex innovation projects; Identify business development opportunities and define innovation needs and gaps for the region ; Gather and provide business justification and local market requirements for the identified innovation projects in collaboration with the GCM and S&T organisations; Provide input into the global product strategy built by the Global Product Managers.

Drive commercialization of innovation:

Build commercialization plan with Marketing and develop customer relevant value propositions for the product portfolio; Engage with Sales and Marketing to drive product launch in the region and identify customer opportunities (e.g., jointly develop promotional plan, arrange sales force training with marketing, coordinate the development of samples and demos); Strong Link with Marketing & GCM to evaluate potential of growth in the region; Support the technical teams in preparation of the launch of new products and technologies via development of proper training material and direct support; Ensure that new ingredients are provided to all relevant markets with all appropriate information related to the new products (regulatory requirement, pricing etc); Supports presentations of new products and technologies to key customer targets.

Work with RI segments on Integrated Solutions

You will be expected to travel on a regular basis (30%).

Profile:

-Engineer or University degree (Bac+5) in Food science, with Marketing or Business Degree;

-Fluent English, multilingual is an advantage;

-10 years’ experience in the food ingredients industry with technical background and ability to develop deep product knowledge; experience with colors or preservatives is a plus;

-Several years of successful track record in developing new business or commercializing products;

-Works effectively in multi-cultural matrix environment and building networks across functions and geography;

-Leadership skills and strong project manager with problem solving capability;

-Structured and focused in approach with ability to simplify the complex;

-Effective people’s skills, team player providing focus and direction with ability to resolve conflicts constructively;

-Open and effective communicator, diplomatic and influencing to drive accomplishment;

-High initiative and motivation;

-Willingness to travel internationally;

Naturex highlights Diversity: disability, age, origin… Your technical and interpersonal skills will make the difference.
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Statut : Cadre

Type d'emploi : Temps plein, CDI

Salaire : 60 000,00€ /an

Avantages :

Titre-restaurant

Expérience:

food industry with technical background: 10 ans (Requis)

Télétravail:

Temporairement en raison du COVID-19