Product and Portfolio Manager Foodservice Switzerland & Export

About the job

We are an independent internationally operating food producer. In addition to culinary products such as soups, sauces, spices, bouillons, instant coffees, breakfast drinks and cereal bars, which we manufacture for retail and large consumers, we have an extensive range of semi-finished products intended for the food industry.

To support our team, we are looking for an agreement a

Product and Portfolio Manager Foodservice Switzerland & Export 100%

Your tasks

In this versatile role, you are the central product contact person for our entire foodservice range in Switzerland and export. You manage, analyse and further develop the existing range and ensure that our products remain up-to-date, marketable and economically successful.

Your tasks include in particular:

• Management, evaluation and maintenance of the entire foodservice range Switzerland & export.
• Planning, maintenance and control of the sales budget as well as relevant assortment and portfolio key figures.
• Monitoring and reviewing the existing range with regard to currency, market requirements, competitiveness and profitability.
• Initiation and coordination of assortment changes, for example recipe adjustments, declaration adjustments, packaging issues or eliminations.
• Clarification of sales expectations including budget allocation for new entries.
• Preparation of market and competitor analyses on market attractiveness, market opportunities, price positioning, ingredients, differentiation and requirements in foodservice.
• Development of concepts and decision-making bases for positioning, USP, communication and assortment development.
• Management and coordination of product and assortment projects for existing and new products.
• Close cooperation with product development, quality assurance, supply chain, purchasing, sales Switzerland and export.
• Maintaining contact with relevant suppliers in the context of product-related topics.
• Product-related support of sales Switzerland and export with information, analyses and documents.
• Hub function for product-related enquiries and complaints.

Your profile

• Commercial, gastronomic, technical or business administration training, ideally with further training in business administration, product management, food or foodservice (e.g. hotel management school).
• Experience in a role related to products (e.g. product management, marketing, purchasing or sales), ideally in the food environment or foodservice.
• Good understanding of assortments, products, market requirements and economic contexts.
• Enjoyment of food, culinary arts, numbers, analyses and project work.
• Analytical, structured, independent and reliable working style.
• Ability to professionally coordinate various internal and external interfaces.
• Very good German skills and good English skills, French skills an advantage.
• Good knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint, SAP knowledge an advantage.

Interested?

A varied and versatile activity in an interesting environment and a good, well-established team awaits you.

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We look forward to receiving your application via our web portal.