Commercial Manager

Job description / Role

Commercial Manager - Flavoured Milk

- Plan and execute the strategy for well-known and still to be known brands
As Commercial Manager you will be operationally responsible for business establishment and business execution. As such you will focus on the development for the future as well as the ongoing execution of plans. In brief, your job spans idea generation, commercial strategies, campaign concepts, budget management, customer insights, local strategies proposals, reporting, sales and invoicing.
- Your prime objectives will be to obtain, establish and execute marketing and sales plans based on local category insight into consumers, shoppers, customers, channels and competitors.
- You drive the annual budget plans and have P&L responsibility for your area.

Requirements

- Excellent and extensive marketing and sales skills
- Should know the ins and outs of the entire marketing processes as a marketer and have extensive hands-on sales experience at store and trade headquarter level. On top of that, you have at least 7 years hands-on FMCG experience. You have filled your toolbox with a wide range of solid standard and modern tools and know how to operate in a sales and marketing matrix set-up.
- Should have sharpened your business talent in a job as Key Account Manager or Brand Manager in an FMCG company. This background has given you the skills to bring our products to market and drive well-known consumer brands to further success.
- Should excel in the relationship building discipline and thrive in the role as initiator and the mastermind behind your marketing and sales activities. Moreover, you have an open and positive mindset, a communicative behaviour and proficiency in written and spoken English.

* If you speak Arabic and have experience with beverages, it will be seen as an advantage.

About the Company

Puck®, Lurpak®, The Three Cows®and Castello® – names like these make us a vital, natural part of modern life in over 100 countries around the world.

At Arla, we do so much more than make some of the worlds favorite dairy products. We make healthy taste delicious, mornings worth getting up for and family dinners unforgettable. Being part of all this and one of the biggest high-tech dairies in the world, means that youre not just realising your potential. It means that you play a vital and natural part of everyday life, making a difference to both consumers and colleagues around the world.

Arla is a cooperative owned by 13,500 farmers from seven different countries, and as a cooperative company, our mission is to secure the highest value for our farmers milk while creating opportunities for their growth.

We believe that milk is nature\\'s best food product, and we are proud to process milk into yogurt, cheese, butter, milk powder and many other dairy products to the benefit and delight of people in more than 100 countries. We are the worlds 5th largest dairy company with operations in 30 different countries and in 2014 we produced around 25 billion milk glasses. Lining up all the glasses would be enough to circle the Earths equator 47 times!

At Arla we are all a part of a global team with great ambitions, challenging tasks, and plenty of development opportunities. We combine traditional craftsmanship and world-class technologies, making sure we consider nature in every aspect of our supply chain from the farm to your kitchen. By pursuing growth for Arla we share a higher purpose of making the world a healthier, more inspiring place to wake up to, and being a part our company means, that youre not just learning special skills. Youre creating special moments.