Category Marketing Director

Location: Belgium

SIRE Life Sciences® is the market leader in life science recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continues innovation. We like technology, in a life science market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!

THE COMPANY

Our client is a professional FMCG and Food organization, based in Brussel Belgium.

As one of the largest en most leading companies in the Bakery sector, this client is well-known among its peers. A company where passion, quality and innovation are highly valued. The company is growing rapidly and we are looking for an entrepreneurial and ambitious senior Category Manager who likes to be part of this growth.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

As Category marketing director, you define general objectives and Manage a Category in the frame of the Group and Business Unit strategic plans and budget. The products are bakery ingredients, more specifically fillings. Technical knowledge of the products is a pre, not a hard must. What is important is a thorough, 10+ years experience in marketing. The role is global, with about 40% travel, so you have to be dedicated and willing to learn on the job. The role will transform as you chape it to the market's needs. You manage the Marketing and R&D of the Category towards the Group sales & Marketing organization in order to reach its objectives of Growth and Profitability. Although you only have 2 direct reports, you travel and manage local teams to learn about and improve the local offset markets.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build and manage an international product range of clearly positioned products/brands by end application and customer segment.
• Drive short term & long term Innovation & Renovations of the category integrating the market & process trends.
• Assure the permanent improvement of the know-how of the Category.
• Assure the international commercial and marketing support activities to the affiliates, ensuring the local range are aligned with the Intel strategy.
• Actively support Business Development activities of markets and Channels.
• Support and collaborate with the R&D Training & decentralization team for optimizing the technical know how and development of the affiliates.

REQUIREMENTS

• Economics or Business degree
• minimum of 10 years of experience in Marketing & Management of a business category, preferably in the food industry
• strong experience in marketing and portfolio management of an international product range
• able to understand technical products and issues and ready to have a common language with R&D, Q.A., and Operations
• leadership and team work are key: you are able to motivate and coordinate multidisciplinary teams
• strong coaching- and communication skills and are able to build bridges, evaluate and develop others
• customer oriented, with a good understanding of the market trends and market demands
• interested in food and patisserie

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Anastasia de Vries.