Strategic Marketing & Technical Manager

Get ready to Own professionalization as a Strategic Marketing & Technical Manager at Nutreco, an SHV company. As global leaders in animal nutrition and aquafeed, our shared purpose of Feeding the Future is making a positive global impact for generations to come. Join us in this transformational role and Own your playbook, Own your impact and Own your career growth.

In this fast-paced, collaborative role, the Strategic Marketing & Technical Manager will integrate both brands’ species perspectives into a unified Asia Pacific strategy, balancing global priorities with local needs. You’ll create a strong Trouw Nutrition identity, inspiring both colleagues and customers, while fostering collaboration across the Company, portfolio managers, and global marketing teams.

You will lead for designing and implementing marketing programs, pricing strategies, and technical products and services management to drive business growth. This role involves developing and executing short- and long-term marketing strategies, managing the product portfolio, and ensuring alignment with business goals while overseeing new product development and technical specifications. Additionally, the role requires cross-functional collaboration to ensure market success and sustained business growth.

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

• Defines the strategic 'how to win,' including competitive positioning, value proposition, and resource allocation, while guiding Portfolio Managers in tailoring strategies to products, developing tactical plans, and coordinating execution with operational companies and sales teams.

• Drive Commercial Excellence for the trading business, collaborating with local teams to identify the most effective Route to Market, and implement pricing strategies.

• Creates annual marketing plans and manages marketing budget, ensuring alignment with business objectives, oversee its execution, and monitors key performance indicators (KPIs).

• Conducts market research, analysing customer insights, competitor activities, Identifies new business opportunities, and brand repositioning.

• Defines product positioning strategies and commercial specifications through pricing, branding, to ensure market fit of new and existing products and services.

• Organises, develops, and manages the marketing, product program management, animal species expertise, and services teams to meet business challenges.

• Provides leadership in integrating marketing insights with technical product development.

• Brainstorm new creative ideas for promoting our products/services while maintaining brand consistency across all marketing channels.

• Organises and develops the marketing team to meet business challenges.

Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Marketing, Business, Product Management, or a related field.

• 15 - 20 years of marketing experience, preferably within a related industry and across multi-country/emerging markets.

• Strong strategic thinker with the ability to focus on the commercial realisation of concepts/ideas. Skilled in project management to ensure timely execution of short-term plans.

• Ability to manage cross-functional teams and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.

• Culturally sensitive, with a proven ability to work effectively across diverse, international environments.

• Strong financial and budget management skills.

• Excellent communication and leadership capabilities.

• In-depth knowledge of CRM software and project management tools

If you are ready to lead with vision, navigate complexity, and drive impactful change in the Apac Export region, we want to hear from you. Together, we can feed the future!

How and why to find out more
We can offer you a meaningful career where you'll take pride in the role you play every day in Feeding the Future. If you are interested in joining us, get ready to Own your progress, your potential, and your career. We aim to review all applications within five business days and will get back to you as soon as possible.
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Our organisation:

Trouw Nutrition is the global leader in innovative feed specialties, premixes and nutritional services for the animal nutrition industry. Trouw Nutrition provides species-specific nutritional solutions consisting of feed concepts, products and nutritional know-how. The unique combination of products, models and services Trouw Nutrition offers, boosts productivity and supports animal health through all life stages, contributing to our customers' peace of mind. Trouw Nutrition's nutrition solutions have met the need of farmers and home-mixers, feed producers, integrators and distributors. Trouw Nutrition has locations in 25 countries and around 5000 employees.  Our mission is Feeding the Future.

Equal Opportunity Employer: 

Trouw Nutrition is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, military status or any other status protected by applicable local law. Please advise us at any point during the recruitment and selection process if you require accommodation. Trouw Nutrition is committed to compliance with all applicable legislation, including providing accommodation for applicants with disabilities.