Global Product Manager (m/f/d) Fruit and Vegetable Ingredients

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Reference ID: 40447

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

• You will become an expert in your fruit and vegetable product categories along the value chain from crop to consumer market
• You understand product varieties, supply and demand patterns, key accounts, competition and trends
• Together with the business units and market segment teams you identify areas for business development and associated offerings
• You manage the global assortment of your b2b product category to ensure it is complete, competitive and profitable
• You analyze defined key performance indicators and customer feedback in order to feed that back into the product roadmap
• You are responsible for the management of the product lifecycle strategy
• You collaborate with Application and R&D to ensure our portfolio is meeting market needs and trends
• You support the sales teams by actively engaging in customer visits, projects and briefings to share specific product and market knowhow
• You ensure in-house trainings to foster a deeper understanding of the product portfolio and positioning
• You communicate up-to-date and aligned portfolio updates on all media within and outside of the organization
• You support the continuous digitization of our processes and tools

Your Profile

• Several years of relevant professional experience in the commercial sector (e.g. Sales, Product Management) ideally in the food industry
• Degree in food technology, general business administration, biotechnology or a similar qualification
• Proven track record creating and executing product roadmaps incrementally and sustainably
• Strong customer mindset with demonstrated ability to engage directly and honestly with customers to bring specific product knowhow and increase win rate
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills as well as a structured, effective and independent way of working
• Excellent organizational and project management skills with the ability to meet deadlines
• Hands-on mentality and entrepreneurial thinking skills, capable of working in cross-functional teams as well as independently
• Willingness to travel globally between 10%-30% of the working time
• Fluent English and German will be required. Other additional languages highly beneficial

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
• Hybrid working possibilities
• Anniversary and special payments
• Employee referral bonuses
• Additional benefits: Christmas and summer parties, financial benefits, and online shop discounts (e.g., IT leasing, mobile phone contracts, shopping, and travel discounts, etc.)

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. Please note that we are unable to consider or return application documents sent by mail.