Industry Manager (meat segment)

Published: 2025-01-02

Department
Marketing & Front End Innovation
Nils Foss Allé 1
3400 Hillerød

Country
Denmark

Take the commercial lead of FOSS’ Meat Industry

Do you influence and build trust in teams and at all layers in an organization? Do you always have the customer at your focus, and a nose for thinking customer life cycle into the value proposition? Are you a strategic thinker as well as a commercially savvy, hands-on marketing planner, that thrive in a B2B environment with long life cycles? And do think you enjoy doing all this while simultaneously helping the global food systems to improve quality, optimize cost and become more sustainable?

If so, we might have the perfect opportunity for you to make a lasting impact by driving growth, customer satisfaction and strategic innovation,

For our Headquarter in Denmark (Hillerød), we are looking for an Industry Manager, Meat Business unit, which is part of our Marketing and Front Innovation team. As Industry Manager, Meat, you will take the lead in creating growth and an engaging winning mentality in one of FOSS’ growing and most important industry.

The job and the team

You will join the MEAT&WINE Business Unit in Global Marketing, which is one of four business units that cover FOSS’s core industries. As the industry lead and expert, you will set the current and future direction for FOSS’s solutions in MEAT. You will report directly to the Business Unit Director for MEAT&WINE.

In this role, you will work together with the business unit team spanning across Marketing, Front end innovation, R&D, Product Management and Business Development for

• Portfolio- and product lifecycle management (e.g., launch, rejuvenation and pruning)
• Value-based pricing and positioning vs. competitors.
• Tactical marketing planning, where we plan, drive the execution, follow-up, and adjust on global initiatives.

All the above is done with a clear focus on meeting customer needs and industry trends.

Primary tasks

We are building efficient collaboration between sales efforts and marketing initiatives – where you as Industry Manager will set campaign and communication objectives and make targeting decisions. You will also develop and improve sales tools, and work with and train the global sales forces.

Your base will be in our office in Hillerød, but you should expect approx. 40 days of travelling – split between FOSS sales & service companies, exhibitions and customer and partner visits.

Culture & Benefits

You will have the benefit to increase your knowledge and professional skills, the opportunity to travel worldwide and learn for different industries and technologies that apply for food quality&safety controls, from a market leader perspective. Other benefits like insurance, home internet, fitness facilities and sport activities, massage, company parties etc. add an extra value for most of our employes.

Profile

The profile we are looking for comes with:

• Experience from a business-to-business environment is required, preferably within Meat/Rendering sector or Agri-business
• Probably has a Master’s degree in Business, Economics or Science, Engineering or similar
• +7 years of experience from commercial role (Global Marketing Manager, Business Development Manager, Product Manager, Business Unit Manager, Management consultant or similar)
• a strong ability to take the lead and inspire and motivate colleagues - there will be no direct reports, but a lot of indirect management
• Experience with- and demonstrated skills of using market and product management tools (e.g. Market & product plans, financial reports, market reports etc.)

Application

If you are interested in this position - and you possess the required qualifications - then we'll be very happy to hear from you. Please send your CV and cover letter - we read applications on an ongoing basis, and we hope to be able to welcome our Industry manager soonest. If you have any questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Business Unit Director – Meat&Wine, Martin Casado on [email protected].

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FOSS

Today, more than 8 billion people around the world are dependent on nutritional food. Tons of food being produced in a million different ways and under varying conditions, creating challenges all the way from field to fork. One of them, obviously, being the effects it has on climate change.

FOSS helps the world’s 100 biggest food companies and more than 40,000 others around the world navigate exactly that with intelligent, data-driven and innovative analytical solutions. We are making sustainability a better business and we’re doing so as global market leader in our field – improving food quality, minimizing food waste, ensuring food safety, and securing fair payment.

Join a pioneering and innovative company in the food and agriculture industry. A company on a mission, with offices all around the world and 1,700 talented colleagues from more than 32 different countries.