International Product Manager Bread

International Product Manager Bread

Vandemoortele

Ghent, Belgium

Your role

As Product Manager Bakery Products in the central team, you are responsible of the success of all phases of the product or portfolio life cycle within a product category. You have an essential role in bringing operational excellence in innovation/renovation quality, artwork, and master data. You develop a strong product expertise and are the go-to person for all product related topics.

You report to the International Category Manager.

Your main responsibilities are:

• Analyse and constantly monitor the product portfolio (quality, volumes, distribution, profitability,…);
• Develop a consolidated group approach for portfolio strategy to implement portfolio optimization based on local needs/brands; lead the implementation together with local product managers;
• Lifecycle product management tasks: artwork management, master data, code creation, volume consolidation, technical product sheets, pricing recommendation…;
• Co-lead the implementation from concept to product launch, prepare launch materials (pictures, selling materials…);
• Share best practices amongst countries on portfolio management & catalogue of innovation;
• Perform post launch analysis & make actionable recommendations;
• Link to R&D & Supply Chain. Be the product quality guardian;
• Validation of transfers (for plant locations) for big shared SKUs in collaboration with R&D;
• Consolidate competition product benchmarks based on local input and bring key take-outs in an actionable way.

Are you the one we’re looking for?

• You have a Master’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or related field combined with a first experience in Product Marketing;
• You are passionate about good, tasty food;
• You are detail oriented and have a structured mindset;
• You are data-driven, love to perform in depth analysis and propose optimizations based on the key take-outs;
• You have excellent project management skills, for implementation of innovation/key projects as a good eye for details;
• You have relevant experience in portfolio management;
• You have excellent communication skills, you connect easily and naturally to other (remote) teams, in English. Other languages are a plus.
• You have a clear and structured approach which is necessary to drive a cross-functional way-of-working.

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