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About Vandemoortele
Vandemoortele is a leading European food group that manufactures and sells high-quality food products. Vandemoortele has two business lines; one in frozen bakery products and one in margarines, culinary oils and fats.
In Bakery Products, Vandemoortele offers throughout Europe a wide range of frozen bread products, pastry, sweet treats, patisserie and savoury products for professional users in the bakery and foodservice channels as well as for retailers, who appreciate the quality and convenience of Vandemoortele’s products.
In Margarines, Culinary Oils & Fats, Vandemoortele targets European professional users with a broad portfolio of products that combine processability, taste and flavour, as well as European retailers with private label margarines and frying fats. In addition, Vandemoortele has a number of strong consumer brands in the Benelux such as Vandemoortele®, Vitelma®, Diamant® and Gouda’s Glorie®.
In 2018, Vandemoortele realized a turnover of ca 1,4 billion euro. The Group is present in 12 European countries with 5,200 employees. The Vandemoortele headquarters are located in Ghent, Belgium.
Your Role:
In the role of Product Manager Professional Belux you are responsible for the profitability en growth of the category b read, patisserie and Italian savoury.
You are the product expert of this category and you analyse and report the profitability of the product group.
You handle the Portfolio Management of a complete product group, driving innovation on the one hand and complexity reduction on the other for professional customers.
The product manager is locally the guardian of the brands Banquet d’or and Patisserie du chef and manages the brand positioning.
As Product Manager Professional Belux you are part of the marketing team for the professional channel (restaurants, hotels, catering services, bakeries, …)
In this role you report to the Marketing Manager Professional Belux. In this function you will be working from our new Food Experience Center in Ghent.
The key responsibilities are:
Product Management
Market intelligence
Creating added value for our customers
Portfolio management
Profitable growth
You create profitable growth and monitor, report and steer profitability of both our Private Label and Branded Portfolio in terms of volume, revenue and variable contribution
Your Profile
What’s in for you?
We offer you challenging work with a great purpose in an international company having a dynamic, driven and ambitious culture and a collegial atmosphere. You will get all chances to grow within a people oriented and value driven environment, where cooperation, respect and ambition are key. You will receive an attractive salary and will enjoy all fitting extralegal advantages.
In this vacancy we work together with our partner Bakker & Partners.
They will provide you feedback and do the first screening. If you have any further questions do not hesitate to contact [email protected]