Location : Zaandam
City : Zaandam
State : Noord-Holland (NL-NH)
Country : Netherlands (NL)
Requisition Number : 40748
Manufacturing healthy and sustainable food, balancing indulgence and productivity, is challenging. Product life cycles are getting shorter and trends in chocolate and confectionery, and plant-based food solutions are evolving faster than ever.
Within Bunge we dedicate our expertise to understand and identify our customers’ needs and collaborating to help them to choose the right fat, protein, or lecithin solution for their specific food products to balance indulgence and productivity. In order to help our partners and customers, we provide our application and development expertise and capabilities.
In the role of Technical Service Manager Food Confectionery, you’ll be at the heart of this innovation!
As a Senior Technical Service Manager, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining strong technical and commercial relationships with our Key Accounts, with a primary focus on the confectionery industry (especially chocolate), in Europe. You will be the linchpin between our customers, sales, and R&D, ensuring that our high-quality oils and fats are seamlessly integrated into their applications. This role demands strong commercial acumen and a proactive approach to relationship building.
You will be in contact with multiple customers producing confectionery products.
You will be traveling regularly (approximately 25% of the time) to visit customers for projects, innovation meetings, or to assist at line trials.
The other part of your time you are driving your projects with the internal organization, developing and proving solutions with the lab teams and preparing co-creation sessions with marketing and application leads. As a technical expert on our product, you also engage with our customers by organizing customer workshops and training, representing exhibitions and fairs, support building product USPs in application, and you build and maintain presence and visibility in the local technical community and network, e.g. by participating in expert groups, advisory boards to technical institutions.

WE OFFER YOU AN EXCELLENT REMUNERATIONS PACKAGE:

• Excellent start salary and bonus system;
• We stimulate the development of our employees by offering opportunities for training- and development;
• Company pension without individual contribution;
• 25 holiday days;
• Travel compensation (Location of the head office is easy to reach by public transport or own transport);
• Hybrid working policy.
  If this description reflects your profile or ambition, we’re looking forward to see your application and motivation in English by hitting apply.

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