Regional Marketing Specialist FBB EU

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In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless.

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Join us as our new Regional Marketing Specialist

We are looking for a new marketing colleague to continue to strive for excellence and growth in the European marketing and business development team in our Food & Beverage BioSolutions business.

It is a unique chance to join a team that works across all the food segments we play in. In the interface with product marketing teams and close to local sales and marketing teams. Are you ready to help build a strong regional marketing muscle to help us achieve a great impact with our customers?

You will be a vital part of the team ensuring clear marketing strategies, delivering effective marketing execution, regional and industry support, state-of-the-art external communication and striving to broaden marketing excellence in the European region.

Welcome to European Food and Beverages Biosolutions Marketing and Business Development team.

Our main ambition is to empower our sales and marketing organization to deliver high value to our customers and achieve sales objectives by:

• Focusing on: Insights, marketing, marketing communication and business development
• Delivering compelling tools and support adapted to the regional needs and industries (New Food & Proteins, Dairy, Baking &Beverage)

The regional marketing specialist will join a dynamic team of 3 persons:

• Head of marketing and business development
• Regional marketing specialist
• Insight manager

The team is part of the bigger FBB Europe Marketing and Business Development team.

In this role you’ll make an impact by contributing to building and executing the Marketing Plan:

• Collaborating with the head of marketing and business development, global marketing and business development teams across all food segments, global marketing communication team, the extensive regional marketing teams around Europe, local sales and strategic account teams.
• Ensure alignment with overall business objectives and regional goals.
• Propose ideas to improve execution and coordination of the plan.

In collaboration with the other marketing specialists and based on the priorities defined in the marketing plan with the Head of Marketing and Business Development Lead our organization of Food Ingredients Europe (FIE) and other key trade fairs:

• Event Planning and Coordination: Develop comprehensive event plans, including timelines, budgets, and resource allocation. Coordinate with internal teams and external vendors to ensure all aspects of the event are executed smoothly.
• Stakeholder Management: Liaise with key stakeholders, build and maintain strong relationships to enhance event success.
• On-site Event Management: Lead the on-site execution of events, including setup, coordination of activities, and troubleshooting any issues that arise. Ensure a seamless and engaging experience for all attendees.
• Post-Event Analysis: Conduct post-event evaluations to assess the success of the event and identify areas for improvement. Prepare detailed reports and provide insights to inform future event planning.

Lead marketing communication activities:

• Plan and execute activities, including campaigns, events, and digital marketing initiatives.
• Monitor and analyze the effectiveness of marketing efforts to optimize future activities.

Support marketing excellence:

• Create customer portraits for strategic/key/targeted accounts.
• Play a role in defining, implementing, and maintaining best practices, standards, and processes related to marketing.
• Provide training and guidance to other marketing teams across Europe
• Help adapt global marketing materials to regional targets and needs.
• Stay alert on competitor offerings and innovation in the region.
• Facilitate the sharing of best practices and successful strategies across regions.

Get involved in Inspirational prototype program:

• Show initiative
• proposing compelling inspirational prototypes to strengthen customer engagements.
• Help with the coordination in setting up the inspirational prototype program.

To succeed you must hold:

• Master’s degree in marketing, food sciences or equivalent scientific discipline and some years of professional experience
• Ideally with proven experience in marketing, sales or technical support in the food or ingredient  industry
• Strong understanding of marketing principles and strategies.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Proficiency in digital marketing tools and platforms.
• Fluency in English; additional European languages are a plus.

Personal skills:

• Must have interpersonal skills to build strong internal networks and be capable of stakeholder management on many levels.
• Must be able to multi-task.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment with tact and diplomacy.
• Self-motivated, results-oriented, high energy, take the initiative; works well in a semi-structured matrix environment.
• Ability to develop, plan and implement short- and long-term goals.
• Possess a vision of how ideas would affect the product process to effectively implement changes.

Application deadline: 24th August 2025

Location: Office location is Lyngby or Hoersholm

It is a flexible workplace with possibility to work from home but expectations around also being in office

Contact details: Hiring manager Marjorie Saubusse or Peter Thoeysen at [email protected]

We will screen in-coming applications and invite for interviews continuously during the application period, so please apply as soon as possible.

Could our purpose be yours? Then apply today!

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