Product Manager Petcare / Animal Nutrition (80–100%)

About the job

Animal nutrition is more than just food to you?

Are you interested in the impact nutrition has on the health and well-being of dogs and cats? At the same time, do you enjoy further developing products, analysing markets, and implementing successful activities together with Sales and Marketing?

Then become part of our Petcare team.

As Product Manager Petcare, you combine animal nutrition, product management, and marketing. You further develop an important area of our Petcare range, analyse market and business potentials, and together with Sales and our industry partners, ensure that good products become successful market activities.

What to expect

You take responsibility for your product area and actively shape its professional and commercial development.

In doing so…

• you manage and develop an important segment of our Petcare portfolio with a focus on animal nutrition and therapeutic diets.
• you develop annual marketing and activity plans and implement the resulting measures together with Sales and Marketing.
• you analyse the market, competition, customer needs as well as sales, margin, and range developments and derive concrete measures and business potentials from these.
• you accompany products throughout their entire lifecycle – from evaluation and market launch to range, positioning, and price adjustments.
• you ensure high quality of product and item data in operational product management, coordinate item changes and new introductions, and take care of price calculations and other range-relevant topics.
• you maintain and develop collaboration with our suppliers and industry partners and coordinate relevant topics around your product area.
• you develop campaigns, promotions, and sales support measures and create professionally sound marketing, product, and sales texts.
• you are the professional contact person for your product area and conduct product training and coaching for our field sales team.
• you support Sales with selected key accounts and strategically important customers and assist in professional discussions and product presentations.
• you assist in planning and implementing trade fairs, events, and other customer activities and represent your product area on site.
• you work closely with our international industry partners as well as internal interfaces and bring customer and market feedback into the further development of our range.

What you bring

We are not looking for the one perfect CV. What matters to us is that you combine professional interest in animal nutrition with commercial thinking.

Ideally, you bring one of the following backgrounds:

• a degree in veterinary medicine, animal nutrition, animal sciences, or a comparable professional qualification and an interest in further developing yourself in product management,

or

• experience in product or category management, ideally in the pet food, pet care, veterinary, or animal health environment, combined with a good understanding and strong affinity for animal nutrition and animal health.

Additionally…

• you enjoy developing a product area entrepreneurially and have a good sense for marketing and market potentials.
• you can prepare professional content clearly and convincingly for Sales and customers.
• you enjoy working with numbers and can derive concrete priorities from market and business developments.
• you like presenting and enjoy exchanging ideas with field sales, customers, and industry partners.
• you work in a structured, independent, and solution-oriented manner and actively contribute your ideas.
• you have very good German and English skills; French is a plus.

Why Covetrus?

With us, you can combine your expertise with product management and commercial responsibility. You can expect plenty of creative freedom, short decision-making paths, collaboration with renowned international industry partners, and a committed team that wants to further develop our Petcare business together.

Flexible working models including home office are also part of it.

Keen to bring animal nutrition and product management together?

Then we look forward to getting to know you.