About the role:
Execute product and purchasing strategy, manage key supplier relations and contracts, conduct product sourcing, and coordinate sales activities, in a country for defined strategic products.
Responsibilities:- Manage relationships with key manufacturers and have a working knowledge of the food ingredients industry
- Negotiate with suppliers to obtain appropriate purchase and distribution agreements.
- Contribute to the preparation, deliver, and monitoring of EBITDA sales and margin targets and budgets.
- Develop and implement sales and marketing plans for a specified portfolio of products, customers and industries.
- Constantly review and assess the portfolio of products, customers and suppliers.
- Regularly report on plans and results, agree and ensure remediably action where required.
- Provide logistical and marketing support and training to effectively launch/re-launch products.
- Control selling prices to maintain and improve budgeted gross margin.
- Ensure all products are purchased competitively.
- Provide market intelligence to relevant staff on availability, price, stock levels and market trends.
- Ensure the consistent implementation of all company reports, policies and procedures.
- Awareness of market conditions and trends including competitor activity and market share relating to individual products.
- Undertake any reasonable tasks or duties assigned by the appropriate line managers from time to time, related to the effective and efficient performance of the job, and providing they are within the post holders skills and ability.
Skills Required
- Working knowledge of the food ingredients industry
- Experience managing relationships with manufacturers and suppliers
- Negotiation of purchase and distribution agreements
- Ability to contribute to and monitor EBITDA, sales and margin targets
- Developing and implementing sales and marketing plans for product portfolios
- Provide logistical and marketing support for product launches and training
- Provide market intelligence on availability, pricing, stock levels and trends
- Ensure competitive purchasing and control selling prices to protect gross margin
What We Do
We are the global market leader in full-line range of chemical & ingredient products and value-added services. Our more than 17,500 employees provide tailor-made application, marketing and supply chain solutions. Our full-line portfolio comprises specialty and industrial chemicals and ingredients of a world-class supplier base. Building on our long-standing experience, unmatched global reach and local excellence, we work closely alongside our partners to make their business more successful. We operate a unique global network with about 600 locations in 72 countries.
