Location : Zaandam 

City : Zaandam 

State : Noord-Holland (NL-NH) 

Country : Netherlands (NL) 

Requisition Number : 40748 

 

 

Manufacturing healthy and sustainable food, balancing indulgence and productivity, is challenging. Product life cycles are getting shorter and trends in chocolate and confectionery, and plant-based food solutions are evolving faster than ever.

Within Bunge we dedicate our expertise to understand and identify our customers’ needs and collaborating to help them to choose the right fat, protein, or lecithin solution for their specific food products to balance indulgence and productivity. In order to help our partners and customers, we provide our application and development expertise and capabilities.

In the role of Technical Service Manager Food Confectionery, you’ll be at the heart of this innovation!

As a Senior Technical Service Manager, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining strong technical and commercial relationships with our Key Accounts, with a primary focus on the confectionery industry (especially chocolate), in the Dutch and the German market. You will be the linchpin between our customers, sales, and R&D, ensuring that our high-quality oils and fats are seamlessly integrated into their applications. This role demands strong commercial acumen and a proactive approach to relationship building.

 

You will be in contact with a broad range of customers producing Chocolate food solutions.  You will be traveling regularly (approximately 25% of the time) to visit customers for project and portfolio updates or to assist at line trials.

 

The other part of your time you are driving your projects with the internal organization, developing and proving solutions with the lab teams and preparing co-creation sessions with marketing and application leads. As a technical expert on our product, you also engage with our customers by organizing customer workshops and training, representing exhibitions and fairs, support building product USPs in application, and you build and maintain presence and visibility in the local technical community and network, e.g. by participating in expert groups, advisory boards to technical institutions.

 

What do we expect from you?

As the description might have given away, for this role you will need to be a specialist in food product development and in oils & fats for the food industry.

We expect you to have finished an education in Food Science or equivalent and have at least 5 year’s experience in Technical Sales. 

Your mentality and experience are commercial, result-oriented and most of all you are service-minded, pro-active and responsive. You have in-depth knowledge of chocolate, the relevant laws and regulations, and the market. In a dynamic environment, you can quickly adapt to seizing opportunities and increase customer satisfaction. To achieve this, you’ll be a great teammate and have developed sound project management skills. Fluency in English is required, Dutch and/or German language skills are a strong advantage.

 

We offer you an excellent remunerations package:

Excellent start salary and bonus system; We stimulate the development of our employees by offering opportunities for training- and development; Company pension without individual contribution; 25 holiday days; Travel compensation (Location is easy to reach by public transport or own transport. We have our own parking lot); Hybrid working policy.

 

If this description reflects your profile or ambition, we’re looking forward to see your application and motivation in English by hitting apply.

 

In case of questions, please get in touch with Debora de Vries (Talent Acquisition Specialist at Debora.devries@bunge.com)

 

Acquisition by agencies is not appreciated, we do not use agencies at this moment for our recruitment. Open proposals of candidates are at own risk.

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Bunge (NYSE: BG) is a world leader in sourcing, processing and supplying oilseed and grain products and ingredients. Founded in 1818, Bunge’s expansive network feeds and fuels a growing world, creating sustainable products and opportunities for more than 70,000 farmers and the consumers they serve across the globe. The company is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri and has 25,000 employees worldwide who stand behind more than 350 port terminals, oilseed processing plants, grain facilities, and food and ingredient production and packaging facilities around the world.

Bunge is an Equal Opportunity Employer.