Marketing & Business Development Director

Key Responsibilities
Welcome diversity and apply as you are! At Adisseo, we cherish the value of diversity whatever it may be. Feeding more than 9 billion people by 2050 in a high-quality, affordable, safe, and sustainable way is one of the major challenges facing humanity and it is the “raison d’être” of Adisseo.

By joining Adisseo, you will:

1. Join committed women and men who make a difference every day to contribute to this challenge.
2. Integrate into a dynamic international environment.
3. Discover a world of opportunities for every stage of your career, being an actor in your professional journey.

Don’t hesitate any longer and apply now!

As a member of the regional Europe/CIS management team, your role is to lead all marketing and technical related teams and activities to support sustainable business development in line with Adisseo’s strategy in each product category. This encompasses:

1. Daily line management of the team.
2. Overseeing market intelligence studies and reports.
3. Market communication and events.
4. Local support to the business.
5. Product registration and compliance.
6. Coordination and cooperation between product categories and regional business areas to maximize the solution approach.

Key Responsibilities and Accountability:

1. Develop and align business strategies on a product category level.
2. Develop the regional business strategy with regional colleagues.
3. Coordinate new customers or new product development projects with Sales, R&D, and production; manage and optimize the product portfolio.
4. Manage product registration and authority approval to ensure legal compliance of the business model.
5. Define the promotional strategy together with Area and Regional management; prepare and monitor the promotion budget.
6. Coordinate and prepare business budgeting.
7. Ensure timely product and application technology transfer to the Region and provide strong technical service to the Sales team.
8. Contribute to the local distribution management policy and monitor implementation.
9. Develop the pricing policy for each product category to support business growth and optimize company profit.
10. Drive new business development via technical and marketing efforts.
11. Identify new approaches in e-commerce and explore how these may assist in growing the business and optimizing business management.

Main Skills Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree or above, major in Animal Nutrition, Chemistry, Biology, Business or related. MBA degree is a plus.
2. At least 10 years of working experience in sales, marketing, animal nutrition, or business development; international/regional people coordination experience is preferred.
3. Excellent marketing sense and strategic view of the business.
4. Autonomy, transparency, customer-oriented, and result-driven.
5. Strong people management and leadership skills to lead a team with different profiles.
6. Excellent coordination competence in a multifunctional organization and strong influential power.
7. Capacity to interact with senior management in both global and local management teams.
8. Deep understanding of multi-species animal nutrition.