01/08/2025
Danish Crown Foods
DNK-Randers, Danish Crown Vej
Product Manager (maternity cover)
Are you our new team member, with a desire to be part of a global team in one of Denmark's largest FMCG companies, where you will have an exciting opportunity to work with one of our biggest categories.
At Danish Crown, we believe that results are created by talented and dedicated people and we have a temporary opening for a 12 month maternity cover where you will be responsible for securing a strong and lean product portfolio within our canned meat category.
Based at our head office in Randers you will be part of Global Categories, Marketing and Innovation in Danish Crown Foods, which drives the global strategy and execution across a number of categories. More specifically, you will be part of our category team consisting of seven dedicated colleagues, working across category, brand and product management in 3 global categories.
Key responsibilities:
As our new Product Manager, you will secure a strong and competitive product portfolio in close cooperation with sales, production and category management. You will also be the first point of contact for all customer and commercial initiated product and packaging adjustments and developments to secure alignment with category manager/director. Your main tasks will include:
- Project management of adjustments and new developments
- Project lead on NPD and Innovation projects including follow-up and status meetings with cross functional team
- Build and secures business cases with commitment from commercial for relevant projects including CAPEX
- Secures speed to market, prioritization of projects and manages expectations towards key stakeholders
- Assortment follow-up and optimization lead to optimise product assortment and cut costs including on-going SKU rationalization, recipe optimisations etc.
Identify and drive product related projects directed towards production optimisation (packaging, optimisation, assortments, etc.) - Ad-hoc projects across the category
We are looking for someone with:
- A master degree within marketing, business or equivalent
- 2-3 years of business experience, preferably in food related FMCG product management
- Experience and proven record working in a matrix organization
Appetite for more?
If you believe this position is for you, please do not hesitate to contact Director, International Category Lead - Global Categories, Marketing and Innovation, Mikael Horsbøll at (+45) 20 58 09 47 to learn more about the position.
We review candidates continuously, so let us know why you are the right candidate for the job and send it together with your CV. Application deadline is August 31st, 2025 at the latest.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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