Global Product Manager (m/f/d) Fruits & Vegetables

Your Role:

• You are the expert for your fruit and vegetable product categories along the value chain from crop to consumer markets
• You understand product varieties, supply and demand patterns, customer needs, competition and trends
• Identify growth opportunities for your product portfolio globally, evaluate attractiveness for Döhler and associated requirements. Creation of a global go-to-market strategy for your portfolio
• Manage the global assortment of your b2b product category to ensure it is complete, competitive and profitable
• Analyze defined key performance indicators and customer feedback in order to feed that back into the product roadmap
• Drive potential management together with market intelligence and map assortment against it
• Collaborate with the regional product managers and regional heads to push your product categories in destination markets
• Collaborate with Application, R&D, Pricing and Supply Chain (Plant Management) to ensure your portfolio is meeting market needs and trends
• Ensure in-house trainings to foster a deeper understanding of the product portfolio and positioning
• Communication of up-to-date and aligned portfolio updates on relevant media within and outside of the organization
• Develop and cultivate best practices, way of working and tools for the business unit “Fruits & Vegetables”
• Define asset/CAPEX requirements in close alignment with regional BU teams and plant management
• Support the sales teams by actively engaging in customer visits, projects and briefings to share specific product and market knowhow

Your Profile

• Successful track record as a product manager or related commercial role in the food & beverage or related industry, ideally in a b2b business environment and/or with a focus on commodities
• Degree in food technology, general business administration or a similar qualification
• Analytical capacity to dive deep into data pools like sales results, market intelligence data, draw conclusions and translate them into actions
• Hands-on mentality and entrepreneurial thinking skills, capable of working well as part of a team as well as independently
• Integrative personality with the ability to work in a matrix organization with many stakeholders
• Ability to deal with ambiguity, manage change and multiple priorities in a dynamic work environment
• Strong customer mindset with demonstrated ability to engage directly and honestly with customers and deliver positive experience by creating a partnership mentality
• Excellent organizational and project management skills with the ability to meet deadlines
• Willingness to travel globally up to 20% of the working time
• Fluent English and German will be required. Other additional languages are welcome