Portfolio Manager Monogastrics EMEA

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Do you like to develop and manage a complete portfolio of products and services? Do you know how to identify customers’ future needs? Are you a professional in making business plans and marketing strategies and do you have a strong affinity for pigs and poultry husbandry? Join our team and help us build a responsible food chain for future generations!

The Challenge
Within the Business Unit EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) we serve a diverse worldwide clientele, including feed mills, integrators, home mixers and distributors by offering a wide range of products in young animal nutrition, functional feed ingredients, premixes and concentrates, and nutritional concepts. Additionally, we provide a variety of services and tools designed to support and enhance our customers' activities.  

As a regional Portfolio Manager, you translate market requirements and developments into a total Concept portfolio, based on products, services, and tools and which is aligned with Royal Agrifirm Group’s Specialties Strategy. Based on a dynamic and ambitious business plan, you create and optimize our market proposition, creating added value for our organization and customers. For this, you work closely together with our Global Specie Leads, Category Specialists, customers, and colleagues from sales, marketing, technical, digital, and R&D departments. In short, a very diverse and challenging new role with plenty of opportunities to build a responsible food chain.

Your responsibilities:

• Define and manage the complete portfolio for monogastric animal species.
• Initiate new business development plans based on facts & figures, market insights, and developments.
• Actively collect market, product, concept and competitor knowledge to strengthen our portfolio.
• Initiate and define innovation projects to create new propositions or expand existing ones in close collaboration with Global Portfolio Managers.
• Coordinate and follow-up of new product and concept launches.
• Manage and control the added value and life cycle of the products and concepts.
• Define and support the annual marketing calendar in cooperation with Sales and MarCom departments.
• Support our sales teams in customer relations and partnerships through strategic thinking, knowledge sharing, organizing trainings on applying our concepts, developing new customized concepts, and setting up trials.
• Maintain connections with academia, suppliers, and key customers to continuously gain insights into market needs and new developments.

In this role, you will report to the Market Support Platform Manager.

What’s on your resume?
We are looking for an experienced professional with a strong business drive. Furthermore:

• You have 5 or more years of experience in a similar role (preferably in EMEA).
• You are experienced in managing a portfolio of concepts (nutritional products, services, tools and digital solutions).
• You have marketing knowledge and a strong interest in pigs & poultry husbandry and nutrition.
• You are fluent in English (both written and verbal). Other languages are a plus.
• You are data-driven and have the ability to make internal and external (financial) analyses.

This is you!

• You are customer-oriented and market-oriented with a perspective that focuses on market needs.
• You are a strong networker both inside and outside the company.
• You have a clear vision and are persuasive.
• You demonstrate logical decision-making competencies.
• You are willing to travel within the EMEA region for 30-40% of your time.

What can you expect from us?

We offer you the opportunity to develop professionally within an enthusiastic international team where joint efforts and mutual appreciation are key.You will join a fast-changin company in full growth. We invest in our employees because they make the difference.
 

You will receive:

• Autonomy, trust and ownership
• A competitive salary with a company car
• Laptop, iPhone and other working materials
• Hospital insurance & group insurance
• Flexible working hours
• Development opportunities through our Agrifirm Academy
• Company activities throughout the year

At Royal Agrifirm Group, we strive for an inclusive culture, in which all of our employees can say: “I’m a valued member of a winning team, doing meaningful work in an environment of trust.” Embedded in our company culture are our STAR values, representing not only what we value but also how we act; Sharp, Together, Ambitious and Responsible. We have the reach to bring different players and different worlds together. Combining the ideas, skills and knowledge of all of our employees enables us to be at the forefront of the development of new concepts, products and tools to deliver on our purpose; a responsible food chain for future generations.

Royal Agrifirm Group

Agrifirm’s vision is to work on a responsible food chain for future generations. We want to ensure that we can continue to offer affordable, healthy and sustainable food to everyone. Agrifirm therefore supplies high-quality products such as animal feed, crop cultivation products, and professional advice. If you want to contribute to this vision, a great career awaits you at Agrifirm! 

You can apply through the application button. Your application (CV and motivation) and/or questions can be aimed at Sela Ford, Recruiter on +31 6 13 18 49 76. 

An (online) assessment is part of the procedure. 

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Why should you be interested in joining us:
At Royal Agrifirm Group, we are passionate about farming. We want to make the difference, care about the future and aim high. Together we can be the best, we can create relevant impact worldwide. Join us on our journey to create a responsible food chain for future generations.