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Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste.
We are committed to protecting food, people and the planet and are on the lookout for passionate and consummate professionals to join our growing team to help us deliver on our ambitious 2030 Strategy. We look for colleagues who Care, Dare and Deliver.
Global Product Manager, Paperboard
Your opportunity
We are currently looking for a commercially driven Global Product Manager to join our Product Management and Strategic Marketing team within our Foodservice segment.
Reporting to the Head of Product Management & Strategic Marketing, the successful candidate will play a key role in accelerating sales, training our sales teams, as well as building value propositions and business cases across their product range.
Where you’ll be
You will be in one of our Foodservice locations in Europe (office based or hybrid), locations include: Espoo, Finland, Gosport or Blackburn United Kingdom, Nules Spain, Czeladz Poland, Alf Germany or La Rochelle France.
What you’ll be doing
Accelerating the sales of specific product groups across our global key accounts and local customers, ensuring we have the right product offering at the right price.
Acting as the ‘product expert’ to our customers and internal stakeholders, working extremely close with the sales teams, especially global key accounts.
Managing the product portfolio, high level specifications, capacity plans and investments for specific product groups.
Training and motivating our sales teams to increase capabilities, empowering them to sell new innovations and products in the product portfolio.
Analysing the requirements of a market/customer, building the right product offering, right capacity and attractive value propositions for our customers.
Building business cases for specific product groups.
Advising key stakeholders on sustainability topics, regulation and fees.
Executing the strategy and three-year plan for the specific product group; building the product roadmap and growth plans, ensuring we execute as per our plans.
Acting as a link to the NPD team and coordination point between Operations, NPD, Sourcing and Sales teams
What you’ll bring to the role
A master’s degree in business or technology (or similar)
Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in sales/commercial and product management roles, ideally working with global organizations
Experience in the packaging industry, preferably in foodservice/paperboard
Commercially driven with a pro-active nature and a passion to get things done
Strong communication skills, exceptional presentation skills (able to present internally & externally)
Excellent analytical skills with experience in sales reporting and the ability to pull together key messages from a large amount of data.
The ability to create future growth plans and execute the strategy of your product group, whilst also being able to dive into the detail on technical and commercial topics
The ability to work independently as well as part of a multinational team
A ‘hands-on’ approach to be able to support our teams with concrete proposals and to ensure we execute as per the built plans and proposals
Fluency in English language
Values similar to ours: Care, Dare and Deliver
Willingness to travel up to 20-30% of your time
What we offer in return
The opportunity to contribute significantly to a global business with sustainability at it’s heart
The chance to work with and learn from talented colleagues from different backgrounds and cultures all over the world
Excellent salary with competitive benefits package
Career progression opportunities
Go ahead, apply today (closing date for applications Wednesday 14th May).
If this sounds like a good fit, then we’d love to hear from you. Once we have reviewed your application, a member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch with feedback.
Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet. Enjoy a career, packaged with care.
Join us to shape the future together!
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive with dental and vision options, and employer contributions toward premiums are portrayed as generous. Feedback suggests this breadth makes the overall package feel competitive for many roles.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) with pre‑tax and Roth options, with certain groups also having access to a pension and even deferred compensation. Feedback suggests these features stand out positively in a manufacturing context.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, paid holidays, and generous parental leave are emphasized alongside meaningful PTO accruals. Feedback suggests this leave structure strengthens perceived total rewards even where base pay is viewed as only fair.
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What We Do
Huhtamaki is a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions for consumers around the world, enabling wellbeing and convenience. Our innovative products protect on-the-go and on-the-shelf food and beverages, ensuring hygiene and safety, and help prevent food waste. We embed sustainability in everything we do. We are committed to achieving carbon neutral production and designing all our products to be recyclable, compostable or reusable by 2030. We are a participant in the UN Global Compact and EcoVadis has awarded Huhtamaki with the Gold medal for performance in sustainability. To play our part in managing climate change, we have set science-based targets that have been approved and validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. With 100 years of history and a strong Nordic heritage we operate in 37 countries and 103 operating locations around the world. Our values Care Dare Deliver guide our decisions and help our team of around 18 000 employees make a difference where it matters. Our 2023 net sales totaled EUR 4.2 billion. Huhtamaki Group is headquartered in Espoo, Finland and our parent company, Huhtamäki Oyj, is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. Find out more about how we are protecting food, people and the planet on www.huhtamaki.com
