International Product Manager Pigs

What will your responsibilities be?

As an International Product Manager you are responsible for providing nutritional support to our business units. Together with our local teams you improve technical and economical results of our customers, i.e. our farmers. You do this by supporting local product managers in tailoring and applying state-of-the-art nutritional knowledge for their local swine market. In addition, together with our (international) specialists and researchers, you develop and apply new concepts, tools and feed programs suitable for local markets in order to create an outperforming range of products and services for our business units.

Next to the nutritional advice, you support the commercial departments in our business units by advising, informing and training the local teams. In addition, you support them in sales and marketing activities, for example by assisting in creating marketing and training plans.

You also advice the Manager Global Nutrition & Support Swine on product development, competitive developments and customer needs. You maintain your network contacts in the pork production chain e.g. breeding organizations, slaughter houses, farmers, veterinarians etc.

What do we expect from you?

• MSc degree or Bachelor degree in animal sciences;

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in animal nutrition;
• Strong expertise in swine nutrition and feed formulation, along with solid analytical skills;
• Solid experience in agriculture. Practical experience in farm animal production or nutrition is a pre;
• Candidates can be characterised as communicator, knowledgeable, listener, trainer, empathetic;
• Interested in (working with) different cultures and proven success in working with people from various backgrounds;

• Fluent in English; knowledge of the Dutch culture and language is a plus;
• Willingness to travel up to 20% of the time.

What do we offer?

We offer a dynamic role in a successful team of engaged and motivated colleagues, providing both a high level of autonomy and collaboration. The position is based in Ede, The Netherlands with regular travels to our business units. You will have ample opportunities to develop both professional and personal capacities to realize personal growth. This position is for a minimum of 32 hours per week and comes with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Interested?

If you want to know more about this position, feel free to contact Lucas Ligtenberg, Manager Talent Acquisition, via lligtenberg@deheus.com

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