Senior Technical Service Manager Confectionery
Senior Technical Service Manager Confectionery
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Location :Zaandam
City :Zaandam
State :Noord-Holland (NL-NH)
Country :Netherlands (NL)
Requisition Number :40748
Manufacturing healthy and sustainable food balancing indulgence and productivity is challenging. Product life cycles are getting shorter and trends in chocolate and confectionery and plant-based food solutions are evolving faster than ever.
Within Bunge we dedicate our expertise to understand and identify our customers needs and collaborating to help them to choose the right fat protein or lecithin solution for their specific food products to balance indulgence and order to help our partners and customers we provide our application and development expertise and capabilities.
In the role of Technical Service Manager Food Confectioneryyoull be at the heart of this innovation!
As a Senior Technical Service Manager you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining strong technical and commercial relationships with our Key Accounts with a primary focus on the confectionery industry (especially chocolate) in Europe. You will be the linchpin between our customers sales and R&D ensuring that our high-quality oils and fats are seamlessly integrated into their applications. This role demands strong commercial acumen and a proactive approach to relationship building.
You will be in contact with multiple customers producing confectionery products.
You will be traveling regularly (approximately 25% of the time) to visit customers for projects innovation meetings or to assist at line trials.
The other part of your time you are driving your projects with the internal organization developing and proving solutions with the lab teams and preparing co-creation sessions with marketing and application leads. As a technical expert on our product you also engage with our customers by organizing customer workshops and training representing exhibitions and fairs support building product USPs in application and you build and maintain presence and visibility in the local technical community and network e.g. by participating in expert groups advisory boards to technical institutions.
What do we expect from you
As the description might have given away for this role you will need to be a specialist in food product development and in oils & fats for the food industry.
We expect you to have finished an education in Food Science or equivalent and have at least 5 years experience in Technical Sales.
Your mentality and experience are commercial result-oriented and most of all you are service-minded pro-active and responsive. You have in-depth knowledge of chocolate the relevant laws and regulations and the a dynamic environment you can quickly adapt to seizing opportunities and increase customer satisfaction. To achieve this youll be a great teammate and have developed sound project management skills.
Fluency in English is required German language skills are a strong advantage.
We offer you an excellent remunerations package:
- Excellent start salary and bonus system;
- We stimulate the development of our employees by offering opportunities for training- and development;
- Company pension without individual contribution;
- 25 holiday days;
- Travel compensation (Location of the head office is easy to reach by public transport or own transport);
- Hybrid working policy.
If this description reflects your profile or ambition were looking forward to see your application and motivation in English by hitting apply.
In case of questions please get in touch with Debora de Vries (Talent Acquisition Specialist at )
Acquisition by agencies is not appreciated we do not use agencies at this moment for our recruitment. Open proposals of candidates are at own risk.
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Bunge (NYSE: BG) is a world leader in sourcing processing and supplying oilseed and grain products and ingredients. Founded in 1818 Bunges expansive network feeds and fuels a growing world creating sustainable products and opportunities for more than 70000 farmers and the consumers they serve across the globe. The company is headquartered in St. Louis Missouri and has 25000 employees worldwide who stand behind more than 350 port terminals oilseed processing plants grain facilities and food and ingredient production and packaging facilities around the world.
Bunge is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
