Technical Manager - Turkey

Thursday, June 9, 2022

Skretting is looking for a technical manager to join its team in Turkey.

Responsibilities:

• Control expenditure within budget for new product development and promotions.
• Identify new business opportunities for new products, re-launches, packaging changes, and range extensions, and propose initial plans to exploit these opportunities.
• Identify opportunities for products (feeds and services) that deliver innovation to customers.
• Define the commercial specifications for new products and improvements to existing products.
• Set priorities in the development and formulation of new products or new applications of existing products.
• Prepare product marketing plans and discontinuation plans to ensure that the new product range is in tune with market opportunities.
• Undertake experiments to determine customer benefit and acceptance of new products (feeds and services).
• Prepare sales and profit estimates for future products.
• Manage internal programs relating to product design and development.
• Implement new products ensuring the relevant documentation is in place.
• Liaise with internal departments and external agencies to ensure full communication and success of marketing plans.
• Create and keep up-to-date commercial and technical brochures, leaflets, presentations, labels, packaging, certificates and other means of communication for Nutreco products.
• Constantly monitor the performance of the product portfolio to ensure it meets organization objectives.
• Engage with commercial customers and fish production professionals and promote the benefit of Skretting product innovation in the local and export market.
• Promote products through presentations at events, launches or externally organized conferences as well as input into magazines and website.
• Document the benefit of products (feeds and services) for the local & export market and support the sales team with product knowledge training.
• Lead the Local Kaizen-Continues Improvement Team.

Requirements: 

• Experience in aquaculture or animal nutrition, animal science or animal health, by preference in the fish feed industry
• Ability to work collaboratively to coordinate projects across different business functions (eg. finance, quality, sales, production)
• Sound business judgment and strong quantitative analytical skills.
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• Sales experience to understand the product and its markets
• Vast knowledge in aquaculture.
• Good communications skills.
• High level of English.
• Travel frequently is required.
• Minimum of five years of experience.

For more information and to apply, visit careers.nutreco.com.