Creating impact together at Bühler!
Two billion people eat food every day that was produced with Bühler equipment. One billion people drive vehicles whose parts were manufactured with our machines.
Bühler aims to balance humanity, nature, and the economy in every decision as it develops solutions that unlock sustainable business opportunities in the global food, feed, and mobility industries.
We strive to create innovations for a better world, with a special focus on healthy, safe, and sustainable solutions. Therefore, we team up with customers, start-ups, multinationals, and academia to accelerate impact together.
You will manage your own Flavor Creation product portfolio, within the segments Cocoa, Nuts and Coffee. As we are focusing on holistic product management, it includes equipment, automation, traditional and digital services-across the entire product lifecycle. You define and implement the portfolio strategy, monitor its performance, and drive mid- to long-term growth. To win on the market, you develop value-adding solutions, proactively market the portfolio and drive sales related activities. In this role you act as the key integrator between Sales, R&D, and Services, providing a comprehensive portfolio overview and serving as the first point of contact.
This is where you'll excel
- You define and implement the product portfolio strategy
- You monitor and analyze global market trends, competitors, technologies, and services to drive market intelligence
- You continuously monitor product portfolio performance and competitiveness, and you formulate, evaluate, and prioritize new business ideas
- You manage products throughout their entire life cycle and develop your assigned portfolio along the M2M (market to market) process
- You coordinate marketing activities and define market launch concepts and campaigns in collaboration with the communications department, market segments, and regions
- You create marketing documentation, including sales presentations, flyers, brochures, whitepapers, and videos
- You lead proactive and effective product management across the entire value-chain including equipment, automation, services, and digital solutions-and integrate Bühler's service and digital transformation into your assigned product portfolio
- You create training content and support both internal and external training sessions
These are the skills you'll need
- You have a technical degree with further training in product management/marketing or a business administration degree combined with experience in engineering and a strong technical understanding
- Ability to manage the assigned product portfolio independently, across the lifecycle
- Market focus (customer understanding, market-oriented way of thinking)
- Ability to anticipate and identify marked trends and requirements
- Ability to lead and interface effectively within a matrix organization
- Presentations and interface effectively with people inside and outside of the company
- Basic understanding of Cocoa, Nut and Coffee process and equipment preferable
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to give compelling presentations; very good knowledge of German and English (other languages are an advantage)
- Willingness to travel worldwide (20-40%)
Questions? We are happy to answer them!
Didier Jean-Louis Chételat
Recruiting Partner
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