Manager Whey Valorisation

Manager Whey Valorisation

Are you the one to drive a multi-million euro impact on our whey valorization strategy? As Manager Product Strategy Whey Ingredients, you will lead a team of product owners responsible for our whey portfolio. Whey valorization is at the heart of our growth ambitions with significant investments in capacity expansion and innovation. This role is pivotal in shaping and delivering our strategy. You will be a key sparring partner to the Director of Product Strategy and take ownership of the innovation workstream within our strategy. For the sidestream strategy, you will have full accountability from development to successful execution. To succeed in this role, you will ensure your team is well-trained, motivated, and fully equipped to drive the projects that power our growth.

What we ask

To be successful as a Manager Product Strategy Whey Ingredients you are:

• A leader that sets an inspirational direction for the team and are able to handle a complex environment with many interrelations
• Experienced for >10 years in B2B commerce, ideally complemented with experience in another discipline (ie. Supply Chain or R&D)
• Good at functioning in a large corporate, being able to make an impact, take stakeholders along in a decision or get senior stakeholders to take a decision.
• Financial knowledge to build and evaluate business cases and pricing strategies, as well as capability to coach others to do so
• Able to take decisions based on partial information, able to quickly recognize what are the things that make the difference

What we offer

• Unique company culture of Dutch heritage and international presence;
• To ensure a healthy work-life balance, we've implemented a hybrid work model for this role. You'll be required to visit our Amersfoort office no more than twice a week, allowing you flexibility while maintaining collaborative engagement;
• Receive home office essentials, such as an ergonomic chair, desk, monitors, and more, to support your comfort and productivity while working remotely;
• A Car Lease Scheme/Mobility budget;
• Keen on cycling? Take advantage of our bike purchase scheme, offering attractive tax benefits to help you acquire a brand-new bike. Enjoy the ride while saving on costs;
• Enjoy 200 hours of annual leave on a full-time basis, with the flexibility to sell or purchase up to 40 additional hours of holiday time. Your 8% holiday allowance ensures that you can make the most of your well-deserved time off;
• A workweek of (fulltime) 40 hours, a salary within the range of €7370 - €10530 and a bonus scheme;
• Receive a company laptop and mobile phone, enabling seamless communication whether you're on the move or working remotely;
• We prioritize your overall well-being. That's why we offer a range of support services, including coaching, financial assistance, physiotherapy, and a comprehensive health check every three years, ensuring you feel supported in every aspect of your life;
• A competitive pension to support when you retire. A partner pension too, so your partner will be looked after if something happens to you while you're working with us;
• Free cheese and milk at lunch in the central office, and barista coffee to help you go through your working days with a lot of joy.

Vacancy description

• Whey valorization strategy: Co-ownership with director product strategy, where the director has the principal role, while the manager whey valorization is lead for the innovation workstream (which included both commercial and R&D scope).
• Sidestream strategy: Full ownership, leading the multidisciplinary team that defines the sidestream strategy. Getting BG MT endorsement and required decisions on resource allocation and investments
• Own key projects: Act as a principal, project manager or market/innovation lead for projects required to realize the whey valorization and sidestream strategy
• Hierarchically leading the team of 4 product managers responsible for the whey based ingredients portfolio, making sure that the team understands the relations within the full portfolio and optimal whey valorization decisions are taken instead of suboptimal decisions on product level.
• Value pricing: Organize world class market intelligence so the whey valorization portfolio can beat the market with value pricing. Support the team with development of storylines based on market facts for the global sales community to increase prices / minimize price decreases and identify pockets of sustainable value growth for the team.
• Network optimization: Translating the market needs for the product group into requirements for the supply chain and engage with SC team to realize the required changes.
• World class product management: together with the peer (manager PGM Specialties) own and run the PGM excellence program, making the team has an outside-in mindset, well connected to the market and the industry. Set up and implement a set of product management best practices

Staying true to who you really are, that is your starting point at FrieslandCampina. Because it is precisely by embracing our differences that we can grow together. We want to create a working environment that allows all employees to bring their best and authentic selves. If who we are suits you, but you're not sure if you're the best fit for the role, we still encourage you to apply so we can help you find the role that fits you best.

Team Details

For thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them it's not just about what we do, but who we are. We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all of our employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture.

The Ingredients business group focuses on high-end nutritional products and solutions for all life stages. The organization serves 4 market segments: Early Life Nutrition, focusing on ingredients for infant and maternal nutrition, and Performance, Active and Medical Nutrition, serving adult nutrition needs. Our ingredients are mainly developed and produced for Business-to-Business purposes and sold to consumers all over the world.