Product Strategic Manager, Bakery
At Glanbia Nutritionals Inc., our portfolio centers around dairy and non-dairy nutritional ingredients. We co-innovate and deliver ingredient solutions and precision premixes for use in the mainstream food and beverage, infant and clinical, and functional nutrition markets. We are the number one provider of whey-based nutritional ingredients globally and the number one producer of American-style cheddar cheese.
The Product Strategic Manager, Bakery is responsible for driving the strategic growth and tactical execution of Glanbia’s Bakery portfolio through product management across all categories. You will lead and liaise with cross-functional teams internally and externally to effectively manage and deliver on initiatives and strategies and will serve as a key link between technology partners, customers, and all relevant Glanbia functions. This is a flexible, hybrid position from Chicago, IL.
Responsibilities :
Responsible for the innovation strategy and pipeline of Bakery products – from overall strategy to execution of specific New Product Development (NPD) projects.
Responsible for developing business cases and clear financial return expectations for various business initiatives.
Collaborates with the Insights team and other sources to build deep market knowledge of the business from a customer, consumer, and competitive standpoint in order to fully define the new target markets and opportunities.
Works with other departments to facilitate delivery of innovation, customer collaboration and operational improvement projects.
Maintains relationships with key customers and participates in joint customer calls with sales as the product expert, with a focus on building demand for innovation related products with our customers.
Be a member and leader of cross functional teams where necessary.
Act as liaison for internal customers (sales, finance, customer service, and purchasing, marketing, operations) for day-to-day product related strategies.
Provide sales trainings and sales support where needed.
Vet new global market opportunities (technologies, expansions, partnerships, etc.) identified by the core team and provide recommendations.
Develop go-to-market strategies for the portfolio and work with Marketing to execute globally.
Maintain value based pricing for portfolio by understanding key market insights and competitive set, in addition to working closely to with Glanbia Finance to understand true costs and margins
Direct key inventory decisions for stock levels and work closely with logistics team to maintain at a global level
Education, Experience:
Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific background (Food Science, Food Business, Food Biology, Food Chemistry or similar).
2-5 yrs. related experience within the food and/or ingredients space
Effective collaborator able to work in project teams and across changing structures within a high-growth business.
Proficient with MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
Occasional travel to plants and food expos
Are you someone who likes to make it happen, make it better and make it fun? If so, our company offers you an excellent opportunity to do really interesting work and develop a career in a dynamic and innovative environment that is all about making you and our business successful.
Our protein systems have transformed the bar and beverage categories — bringing increased levels of protein, cleaner labels and greater product functionality to market. We have a direct presence in 21 countries, with manufacturing facilities in the US, Germany and China, and international sales and technical offices around the world.
At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.