Description
A Place Where People Matter – Growing our People to Grow Our Business
We’re thrilled that you are exploring career opportunities where you can continue to make a positive difference every day to keep our communities healthy, fed, clean and safe.
Duties
We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Manager to join the Health & Nutrition vertical business in the EMEA region, with a specific responsibility for the commodities portfolios. The successful candidate will be targeted to support strategic market share positions through key supplier relationships and consolidation to deliver double-digit gross profit growth.
Key Responsibilities And Tasks
- Manage and drive a team of Product Managers and Assistants across the EMEA region.
- Develop a strategic vision for the future success of the commodities business with short and medium-term measurable actions.
- Continuously monitor market share by mapping suppliers and competitors’ activity.
- Support product management team in the negotiation of supplier conditions and identify areas for growth with key partners.
- Drive structural gross profit growth.
- Drive a culture of contract management with both sellers and purchasers and ensure the maintenance of positions managed through the PM team.
- Drive strong price management practices through the PM team and ensure effective cooperation with Sales Managers in the region.
- Review current commodity portfolio and make recommendations for change in order to better drive core products.
- Consider investment opportunities in infrastructure or acquisition targets which support the strategic vision for the Health & Nutrition EMEA business.
- Drive Inbound Supplier service performance improvements.
- Optimize Working Capital.
We Are Looking For
The ideal candidate will have previous product management experience in commodities, preferably in the Food industry, as well as people management skills and a strong strategic vision. It is essential that you are self-motivated, focused, flexible, organized, a strong communicator, and possess excellent IT skills. The successful candidate will have proven commercial judgement, attention to detail, ability to work across a wide network, be an excellent team player and influencer. You should strive for excellence in customer service and be an advocate for your team's success.
Univar Solutions is a leading global distributor of chemicals and ingredients essential to safety, health, wellbeing - from life-saving medicines & vitamins to hand sanitizers & industrial materials used for cleaning & construction. Our global team of more than 10,000 employees supports our vision to redefine distribution as most valued chemical & ingredient distributor on planet!
We offer Total Rewards package including market aligned pay/incentives along with diverse benefits offering supporting employees’ physical/emotional/financial wellbeing. Univar Solutions supports sustainable solutions helping keep communities healthy/fed/clean/safe! We are committed diverse workforce/culture inclusion building culture acknowledging/respecting unique experiences/perspectives/expertise every employee provides development/growth opportunities empowering us redefine industry while making difference communities.
Univar Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination based on race/gender/sexual orientation/gender identity/religion/national origin/age/disability/veteran status or other protected classification.