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Are you interested in high-quality, natural, and tasty nutrition?
We are! It’s our ambition to shape the future of nutrition.
Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.
We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team – together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE.
Your Role
1. You develop and deploy the product line and product portfolio of Tea Ingredients (from extracts to flavours) incl. the business development, supply chain, pricing, innovation and the overall growth initiatives
2. You manage the global assortment with the product organization and the respective internal stakeholders within our global matrix organization
3. You drive the sustainability approach for Tea Ingredients along the whole Value Chain from Raw Material to finished products
4. You define a roadmap to drive the business (and revenue growth) in close alignment with the Team Leader Product Management
5. You attend regular meetings with the R&D, Marketing, Pricing and Sales team to agree on the pricing strategy, product portfolio and supply chain topics with the respective teams
6. You actively monitor competitors to benchmark our portfolio and prepare a competitive analysis
7. You support the sales team by actively engaging in customer visits, projects and briefings to share specific product and market knowhow
8. You define success metrics and analyze customer feedback and product usage in order to feed that back into the product roadmap
9. You communicate up-to-date and aligned portfolio updates on all media incl. product portfolio displays within and outside of the organization
10. You ensure in-house trainings to foster a deeper understanding of the product portfolio and positioning
Your Profile
11. You sucessfully worked as a product or business development manager in the food and beverages industry, ideally in a B2B business environment concerning Tea Ingredients or extraction technologist concerning B2B Tea
12. You have a degree in food technology, general business administration, biotechnology or a similar qualification
13. You have a proven track record creating and executing product roadmaps incrementally and sustainably
14. You have strong customer mind set with demonstrated ability to engage directly and honestly with customers and deliver positive experience by creating a partnership mentality
15. Your excellent organizational and project management skills help you to meet deadlines
16. You bring hands-on mentality and entrepreneurial thinking skills and you are capable of working well as part of a team as well as independently
17. You are able to deal with ambiguity, manage change and multiple priorities in a dynamic work environment
18. You are highly interested in technological processing of B2B ingredients
19. You are willing to travel globally approx. 20% of the working time
20. Your fluent English skills will be required. Other additional languages are highly beneficial
Your Benefits
21. Culture: Friendly and informal atmosphere, family-owned company, flat hierarchies, short communication channels, and helpful colleagues
22. Impact: You are an integral part of our business success and make an important contribution to the future of nutrition
23. Empowerment: You can fully unleash your potential and have the opportunity to take on responsibilities
24. Digitalization: We maintain excellent partnerships with market-leading innovators, allowing you to access and work with state-of-the-art technologies
25. Anniversary and special payments
26. Employee referral bonuses
27. Additional benefits: Christmas parties, events, financial benefits, and online shop discounts (., IT leasing, mobile phone contracts, shopping, and travel discounts,
28. Welcome@Döhler: Onboarding event for all new colleagues, as well as several weeks of individual training
29. Döhler Academy: You have the opportunity to continuously develop your education further through internal and external training programs
30. Food is taken care of: On-site cafeteria with regional and varied cuisine and complimentary drinks
31. Stay fit: Take advantage of local sports offerings at reduced prices
32. Mobility: Subsidized Germany ticket or JobRad
33. Insurance benefits such as company pension plans and accident insurance
34. Global growth trajectory: Challenging and internationally oriented work at our headquarters in Darmstadt
35. Attractive location in Darmstadt: Easily accessible by train, bus, on foot, or by car (free parking)
Equal opportunities for all
We welcome applicants, who are just as diverse as we are - regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.
Become a part of our team and apply online trough our career portal to the attention of Marie Becker. Please note that we are unable to consider or return application documents sent by mail.