Are you passionate about advancing animal nutrition through scientific insights and looking to make a meaningful impact on animal health and performance?
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences, we deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Health & Biosciences: Channeling our passion for nature and bioscience into sustainable, life enhancing technologies that power innovative solutions across healthcare, food, consumer and industrial markets.
We are looking for a Global Technical Marketing Consultant at our site in Leiden, Netherlands in an onsite capacity.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
Monitor and assess market trends and activities to identify opportunities for business growth. Recommend marketing strategies that strengthen the organization’s trading position and profitability. Track sales volumes and contribution margins across all brands and products to ensure marketing plans are grounded in solid insights and that promotional budgets are allocated effectively. Build and maintain strong relationships with retail customers to stay informed of their business developments and suggest adjustments to marketing plans when needed.
Identify market segments with potential for improved performance and develop proposals to leverage short‑term opportunities while building long‑term partnerships. Share insights and results with sales teams and update account strategies accordingly. Develop trade and retail promotional activities to protect margins and reinforce product and brand positioning. Conduct market research to uncover new business opportunities, emerging trends, and competitor activity.
- Working with Innovation scientists, Regional Sales, Marketing, Customer Service Laboratory and Regulatory functions to gather technical information and produce sales enablement tools (technical reports, in-field sampling reports, sales presentations, and economic calculators) for our nutrition and health products, that articulate product mode of action and customer benefits.
- Collaborate with Marketing team to deliver effective marketing communications via trade press articles, white papers, and webinars/seminars.
- Collect and assess technical information to proactively and reactively counter competitor product claims.
- Development and maintenance of specialist Technical Services (e.g., software tools) to facilitate product differentiation and sales.
- Contribute to innovation and regional trial designs based on marketing strategy and process information from applied research trials involving existing products and applications.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Master’s degree or PhD in Animal Nutrition or a related Animal Science field.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Animal Nutrition.
- Strong knowledge of animal nutrition and nutritional health.
- Solid understanding of feed formulation, data processing, and report preparation.
- Experience in animal trial design and statistical analysis.
- Skilled in preparing technical documents.
- Advanced proficiency in English, both written and spoken; additional languages are a plus.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage effectively at all levels and across multicultural teams.
- Self-directed, well-organized, methodical, analytical, with strong prioritization skills, agility, and a positive, tenacious attitude.
Why Choose Us?
- Opportunity to make a real impact in animal health and performance
- Join a team that values individuality and fosters collaboration.
- Strong focus on employee well-being and engagement.
- Enjoy competitive compensation and benefits designed to support your well-being.
We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
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