PRODUCT AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Foodingredients Oil, Fats, Cacoa

About this role

* Please describe in you Cover Letter your experience with Oil, Fats, Cacoa and Food Ingredients
* This position is a succession role for a long‑standing employee who is retiring. A transition phase is planned. The candidate would start as an application technologist in our laboratory and would be trained for the new role by the current job holder.

GFIC is recruiting

for an international value added Food Ingredients Distributor working in Europe, West Asia and Africa the

PRODUCT AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Food Ingredients/Oil, Fats, Cacoa

* you have experience with Oil, Fats, Cacoa
* The product and business development manager is responsible for the overall development of his/her assigned group of principals /ingredients .
* He/She is acting as a bridge between the Sales Managers assigned for his/her product groups in our 40 countries and our principals.
* While the main focus of the product and business development manager is on strategic topics and how to bring value to the market , he/she can be selectively involved also in the daily business cases.
* Must have for this position is a Degree in Food Technology (a MBA is a plus)
* You work today for a distributor
* Or you work for a Food Ingredients Producer and you manage Food ingredients distributors
* this is a job about selling Food Ingredients B2B not FMCG

## Tasks

KEEP PRINCIPALS SATISFIED

* acting as their key cont act person for strategic & company-wide topics
* ensuring the achievement of their objective s
* keeping them informed (potentials, projects & activities, sales data, market studies, …)

SUPPORT AND KEEP SALES MANAGERS MOTIVATED

* acting as a coach for strategic matters : sharing information about principals , organization of training , discussion of quarter -plans, analyzing market trends , global or local customer plans.
* Insuring sales support tools are used properly (Reporting tools, Monitoring tools, CRM, Lab usage)...