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Fourier Recruitment

Product Manager - (Feed Additives) - EastRand

Fourier Recruitment

  • R56,000 - R84,000 per month
  • Permanent Management EE position
  • Gauteng
  • Posted 18 May 2024 by Fourier Recruitment
  • Expires in 18 days
  • Job 2567660 - Ref LC_030111322043
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About the position

The Product Manager  reports to the Sales Manager. The main purpose of this role is to propose, implement, and monitor new product marketing plans to achieve future sales and profit objectives for allocated products



 



  • Actively drive, promote and support all sales activities of the Feed Additive Range

  • Be the first “go-to” person for technical issues and requests on the relevant products

  • Training and technical support to internal staff with good presentation skills, follow up on possible areas of knowledge development requirements and address

  • Organize, follow-up and take control of feed additive field trials and prepare relevant documentation

  • Identify new business opportunities for new products, re-launches, packaging changes, and range extensions, and proposes initial plans to exploit these opportunities

  • Prepares product marketing plans and discontinuation plans to ensure that the new product range is in tune with market opportunities

  • Prepares sales and profit estimates for future products

  • Liaises with internal departments and external agencies to ensure full communication and success of marketing plans

  • Keep up-to date commercial and technical brochures, leaflets, presentations, labels, packaging, certificates and other means of communication for the products

  • Constantly monitors performance of the product portfolio to ensure it meets organization objectives.

  • Safeguard the quality of the products in cooperation with the quality department, and follow-up on customer complaints



 



 


Minimum Requirements:

  • Master’s degree, BSc Animal Science or Nutrition / Veterinary  / experienced and several years of experience in product management

  • 5 years related experience

  • Intermediate PC skills with strong knowledge of spreadsheet and word processing packages

  • Excellent Communication skills (verbal and written)

  • Willingness to travel 25% of the time

  • Coordinates with internal and external parties (Sales, R&D, Procurement, agencies, key customers, etc.)

  • Implements the overall product-marketing policy into a profitable product portfolio


Desired Skills:

  • Bachelor’s in Animal nutrition / Veterinary
  • product management
  • Additives / Animal Feed

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Fourier Recruitment

About the agency

At Fourier we are passionate about adding value to our customers through the optimisation and automation of their business environment. This passion resonates in our efforts to translate strategy into conceptual solutions, the detail design of these solutions and the successful implementation thereof. Fourier has become renowned for our successful execution of both small and large-scale projects across a variety of industries as well as our ability to deliver and unlock value. Fourier’s business philosophy is built around our process thinking and execution focus whilst building long-term relationships with our customers. True to the Fourier slogan, we are: … passionate about seeing our customers improve; … Focused on adding measurable value, and … building a legacy of world-class delivery. Passion At Fourier we have a passion for assisting our customers to excel and achieve their full potential. We actively participate in this from the strategic level down to the day-to-day operations. Fourier has passionate employees with the following key competencies: Business Consulting, including: … Business process design and optimisation/re-engineering; … Front and back office operations improvement (incl. forecasting, scheduling, etc.); … Business improvement through the elimination of non-value add activities and optimisation of organisations through techniques such as Lean, JIT, Six Sigma, TOC and others; … Business modelling and decision support through simulation and other techniques; … Creating visibility for performance measurement through business intelligence solutions, and … Financial modelling and sensitivity analysis. Information Management, including: … Information Systems/applications analysis and design; … Enterprise Architecture modelling; … Business Process Automation with Workflow systems (Tibco, IBM, Microsoft); … Business Intelligence Systems (Warehouse) Analysis, design and implementation, and … Bespoke Development (Physical design, coding and testing). Resource Placements, including: … Capacity fulfilment; … Project subject-matter-experts fulfilment; … Continuity planning; … Skills fulfilment. Value Add: Fourier only employs graduates from either an Industrial Engineering or Computer Science background with a number of specialists with Masters Degrees. This strong academic training, together with the years of experience makes for a world-class team that can identify areas for improvement and deliver exceptional value. Furthermore, Fourier’s exposure to different industries allows for unlocking further value through cross-pollination between industries. World-class: At Fourier we partner with our customers on the journey towards maturity and excellence through providing a world-class consulting service. Customers that have experienced our world-class services include: Total Facilities Management Company (TFMC), Nedbank, FNB, ABSA, Standard Bank, Delloites, Telkom, South African Breweries (SAB), ABI, CIMS and various others. Our Credentials: Fourier, a privately owned organization founded in 1999, has been audited by a SANAS accredited BBBEE verification agency and is a level 2 contributor. Since its inception, Fourier has maintained stable and strong organic growth and employs around 40 people.

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