International Product Manager Look-O-Look

Are you ready for a fresh step in your career? Because we have ‘a sweet opportunity’ for you!

International Product Manager Look-O-Look
36 hours per week (fulltime) Based in Breda

This is where we need you!

For more than a hundred years we have been inventing, making and selling the most fun and delicious sweets in the famous family name of Perfetti Van Melle. Of course we can not do this alone, so we do it with more than 19,000 colleagues worldwide! Together, we ensure that you can enjoy well-known brands such as Mentos (Gum), Fruittella, Klene, Look-O-Look, Chupa Chups, Stimorol, Bubblicious, Smint and Frisk every day.

Where we could use your strengths!

As International Product Manager Look-O-Look, you will be part of the Marketing department, part of our commercial organization in the Benelux. Want to get insight into our company immediately? Click here and here. The Marketing department is always evolving and continuously responds to the latest developments within FMCG. The department counts six brand teams and a Media & Insights team. As International Product Manager Look-O-Look, you will be part of the brand team Candy, and reports to the International Portfolio & Innovation Manager Look-O-Look.

Together with your manager you are responsible for managing projects focused on business changes in our key iconic products for the Look-O-Look Brand. Theme’s you could think of are product innovation, pack change, quality improvement, limited edition

from project initiation through to implementation & launch.

Therefore, you will work closely with the two local Marketing Look-O-Look teams. Furthermore, this role interfaces extensively with Marketing, Finance, R&D, P&T, Quality, Legal, Consumer Insights and all functions within Global Supply Chain (Procurement, Artwork, Manufacturing and Customer Service and Logistics), to deliver projects within the specified time, cost and quality parameters. Finally, the leading markets are Benelux and the Export markets within Europe.

Your core tasks in a nutshell:

• Project planning: facilitation of the definition of project scopes, goals, tasks and resource (people and cost) requirements;
• Cross-functional project team management; identifying and engaging cross functional representatives forming a team to deliver the project brief;
• Monitoring project progress and provide corrective action if necessary;
• Maintaining project documentation and reporting to communicate clear status of projects, key timings, issues & risks;
• Maintaining quality communication with all functions engaged in the project, including raising profile of projects through representation of projects at senior forums;
• Ensuring that suitable risk assessment and contingency planning takes place - to keep the project on track, accelerate or stop the project if the business need exists;
• Ensuring that project scopes and timing take into consideration minimizing waste (raw, pack write-offs) and unwanted complexity (utilizing existing asset platforms, SKU proliferation) to the business system;
• Enabling best practice sharing by ensuring all projects are properly closed and key learning’s are documented and preparing project evaluations when required;
• Initiation of finished goods Master data setup and communicate completed information to all stakeholders so all systems can be properly set up to produce, ship, sell and invoice our products;
• Ensuring correct Product Labeling Specifications (PLS) handling, Artwork process coordination and Co packing handling.

The ideal recipe for our International Product Manager Look-O-Look:

• Bachelor or Master Degree;
• A minimum of 3(+) years’ experience in FMCG marketing, with a focus on NPD and Portfolio management;
• Solid project management experience and project management process knowledge, preferably in New Product Launches or Product Change;
• Working knowledge of the supply chain and basic supply chain principles are an benefit;
• FMCG experience is a benefit;
• Ability to demonstrate strong meetings management, advanced facilitation and communication skills across a broad range of stakeholders;
• Strong initiative to problem solving and framing alternative solutions and driving delivery;
• Strong presentation skills to influence at a senior level;
• Process oriented – ability to monitor, measure, report;
• Initial team management experience a plus.

Discover your sweet reward!

• An attractive fixed salary package that acknowledges and encourages your value. After all, your talent deserves it to be appreciated!
• Our collective bonus system rewards you, based on the performance of the organization and your individual performance. So, an extra motivation to get the best out of yourself!
• We not only take care of our customers, but also of you. That is why you enjoy an attractive pension scheme that gives you peace of mind. So what exactly does this scheme look like? 2/3 of the premium is paid by Perfetti Van Melle, 1/3 is for your account;
• We understand better than anyone that flexibility is important for your well-being. Enjoy the possibility to work partly from home, allowing you to balance your work and personal life even better. To facilitate this, you will receive a home office allowance as well as an allowance to set up your hybrid workplace;
• Relax and recharge yourself with five weeks' holiday. After all, you deserve it to relax and enjoy your time off. Is this leave balance not enough? No worries, we offer you the option to buy additional leave;
• Invest in yourself with our training budget. We encourage you to grow and develop your skills so you can continue to excelerate in your job;
• Perfetti Van Melle is a member of Bedrijfsfitness Nederland, allowing you to enjoy discounts on your gym membership. So you can stay in shape amidst all our irresistible sweets;
• Do you prefer going out by bike? Then maybe our renewed bicycle plan is something for you. For a fixed low amount per month, you ride a brand new bike. Not only for commuting, but also for private use;
• Take advantage of a group discount on your health insurance;
• Every two months, you will receive a snack pack filled with great products from our various brands. Should this not be enough, you can replenish your candy supply at a reduced rate by visiting the internal candy shop.

The ingredients of Perfetti Van Melle. Does it include your taste?

You will work at the third largest confectionery group in the world - and second in Europe. But we want to continue to grow and become the best at making candy, where we can use all the help of our colleagues!

We see our employees as the most important ingredient and therefore we have something for everyone:

• Empowering: Everyone has every opportunity to develop and make a difference. For example, we have a huge range of (tailor-made) training courses.
• Fun: Who doesn't actually dream of working at a candy factory? We would also like to maintain our family atmosphere, because that makes us unique and has brought us to where we are today. We do everything to make you feel at home with us, such as an annual beach volleyball and hockey tournament. But also an annual CSR day to be committed to the community.
• Innovation: We must respond to the ongoing social debate on sugar and health, but also to deal with issues such as: environmental pollution, packaging and food safety. Enough challenges!
• Dynamic: It may sound cliché, but with branches in more than 30 countries, we are a dynamic and vibrant organization.

Does this taste like more?

Got interested? Then we would love to meet you! Let us hear from you via the "apply" button, and perhaps we will meet soon!