Magnet.me  -  The smart network where hbo and wo students find their internship and first job.

The smart network where hbo and wo students find their internship and first job.

This opportunity has expired. It is therefore no longer possible to like or apply.

See similar opportunities instead

Marketing Intelligence Expert

Posted 22 Mar 2024
Work experience
5 to 7 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

Your career starts on Magnet.me

Create a profile and receive smart job recommendations based on your liked jobs.

Marketing Intelligence Expert

Dongen

Fulltime

Job description

Protix is on a mission to bring the food system back in balance with nature. To accelerate our mission we need marketing excellence. A typical day on the job of a marketing intelligent expert starts with an online event in where customers, competitors and experts share their latest insights about insects as source of protein and other nutrients for food or feed. You know where Protix stands out in products and capacity and quickly extract the information we need to fill in our commercial opportunities. You add this information to our database and put it in a short presentation. By sharing the key takeaway messages with the right internal shareholders you make sure they are on track to excite our (new) customers.

  • Are you that marketing intelligence expert that can accelerate our commercial opportunities?
  • Do you get excited by the opportunity to contribute to the mission of Protix: "Bringing the food system back in balance with nature"?
  • Then please read on, because we would like to meet you and explore our opportunities!

About us

Protix is the leading company in natural and sustainable proteins and other nutrients from insects. Our vision is a food system in balance with nature. The black soldier fly (hermetia illucens) is a key player in bringing our vision to life: their larvae provide us with a unique source of ingredients for food and feed. We are the market leader when it comes to high quality and scalable insect ingredients production. In our plants we produce high value insect protein, lipids and fertilizer. Our key products, ProteinX, LipidX, PureeX, Flytilizer and exciting concepts like OERei are means to a goal, a low footprint society. With our products fish can be produced without fishmeal and chicken without soy.

What makes this possible are the 100+ unique individuals within our company, who are engaged and empowered to make a difference. Our belief in the power of the insect inspires the passion and creativity that makes us successful.

Working within Protix is an excellent opportunity to excel both personally and professionally in a fast- paced entrepreneurial and sustainable environment. We are thought leader in a market, that is evolving rapidly. Therefore we constantly need to develop and share commercial and competitive insight and foresight.

Your Position

You are a marketing intelligence expert, who enjoys to spot and analyse market trends, regulatory developments and segmentations, in order to detect our commercial opportunities. You have a passion for our mission and want to know all about our unique products and capabilities. With this knowledge and understanding you are driven to search for those developments in the market and industry that give us the insights we need to fill in the needs of (new) customers and excite them with our great products.

As a marketing intelligence expert you collect these insights through desk research, attending conferences and events, and maintaining a journalist-quality network of contacts within the industry. Your customer and end user (need) research gives us direct trusted access to our key customers.

The knowledge and intelligence in our industry is constantly developing. In order to drive our competitive intelligence you maintain a database of insights that consists of external articles, presentations collected, and interview notes. You make sure that all intelligence is clearly summarized in one paragraph and fully tagged. This enables your colleagues in the Commercial and Management Team to easily find the right information by searching through the database.

Having researched and collected all this information, you sensitize your colleagues on the latest developments and opportunities by communicating your insights and ensure they are able to use these in their daily practice. You do this in several ways. First of all, you produce a weekly one-page bullet point newsletter, which summarizes your most important new insights. Secondly, you provide for specific information to your colleagues in the commercial team, solicited and unsolicited. And finally, you provide for content for Sales talking points, marketing materials, and external publications and presentations.

As a market intelligence expert, you play a crucial role in the commercial direction and growth ambition of Protix. Together with your colleagues you determine the destination and set the course of our company and products. You are part of the commercial team and work in cooperation with Sales, New Business Development and Product Development. You report to the Director Product Development.

Requirements

Your Responsibilities

Your main responsibility in this position is to collect and maintain a database of competitive and market intelligence and to communicate and market this internally.

This market and competitive intelligence demands for:

  • End user research, including awareness and acceptance of insect-based feed and food, associated benefits.
  • Spotting market trends by product, segment and geography, including demand growth and pricing developments, 3d party trend analyses and predictions, and inroad of insect-only and insect-in-the-mix products.
  • Research of industry developments, including new product introductions, public announcements and capacity increases
  • Competitive analysis, regarding product quality, pricing, sales development, customer wins, partnerships, positioning, customer feedback, and more.
  • Following social sector developments, including animal welfare campaigns, and perspectives on insect feed.
  • Spotting regulatory developments, including new initiatives, regulatory changes and regulation calendar updates.
  • A master’s degree in science or engineering.
  • Up to 5 years of experience in a business analyst role.
  • Understanding of food and feed ingredient business.
  • Exposure to pet food market desired.
  • Great communication skills, in writing and presenting.
  • PowerPoint, Word and Excell skill.

Your Education, Skills and Experience

Your Personality

  • You are resourceful and independent. You act like an investigate journalist and build a great network.
  • You are able to synthesize. You “see the forest for the trees” and see the implication of information.
  • You are service and action oriented. You pro-actively communicate and provide for information. Information not acted on is wasted time and resources.

What you can expect of us

  • A competitive remuneration package.
  • Flexible working options in working hours and location.
  • An entrepreneurial environment in which technology and biology go hand in hand.
  • Working with passionate and highly educated and skilled colleagues in a challenging environment where continuously learning is most important and being supported.
  • A piece of the of the "Protix pie" in shares.
  • 26 vacation days.

We are looking for innovators! Operator, engineer, researcher, designer – if you want to work towards a better world, we are looking for you.
We are at the eve of forming a global insect industry and Protix is leading the revolution. Through combining biology and technology, we create high- quality insect ingredients to bring the food system back in balance with nature. We are growing rapidly and are always looking for great new people!

Manufacturing
Dongen
Active in 1 country
130 employees
60% men - 40% women
Average age is 33 years