[Immediate Start] Interim Portfolio Specialist_Taste

5 days ago


Tullamore, Ireland Kerry Group plc Full time

Requisition ID: 56102
Position Type: FT Fixed Term
Workplace Arrangement:

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the role

- To drive & manage the overall sustainable performance of a Taste portfolio.
- Determine how we best develop, configure assets, working capital, manufacturing & supply chain networks to deliver on our strategies and commercial plans.
- Determine appropriate levers to be addressed to enhance margin (PIP) (e.g., Plant Transformation Activity, Process Technology Improvements, etc.)
- Maintain market relevant collections / identify and drive innovation big bets alongside Taste Business Development managers.
- Mobilise & integrate cross-functional teams to define and manage the execution parameters specific to the technologies that enable successful delivery against EUM/BU strategies, profitability and growth targets.
- Provide deep technical knowledge and competitor intelligence of products on a regional scale, collaborating with Global Taste Portfolio Managers to ensure that EUM strategies are differentiated in the Market.

Key responsibilities

- Define and drive Sub Technology strategy, including usage and alignment with Taste and EUM strategy.
- Driving performance of the product through customer differentiation and margin, leveraging the breadth and depth to build value for EUMs across the European sub-regions and ensure the product offering is equipped to stay ahead of competition.
- Conduct regular reviews of the Collections to understand where Taste technologies can be applied and conduct relevant technology and application validations.
- Drive Technology credibility internally and to the market.
- Product Managers acts as a key expert in Technologies (regionally) to;

- Determine the optimized composition of the Finished Good Portfolio aligned to Strategy.

- Determine efficient Business Terms (Minimum Order Quantity (MOQ), Lead Times and Stocking Policy (Made to Order, Made to Stock).

- Determine and communicate Target Margins and Pricing guardrails.

- Determine how we best configure assets, manufacturing & supply chain networks.

Qualifications and skills

- Bachelor’s degree in a business or technical field (or equivalent experience).
- Extensive experience and knowledge of the food and beverage industry, desirable if experience is within a flavour house or deep knowledge of Taste technologies.

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