Global Power Platform Leader - Intestinal Health

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Overview

The Global Power Platform Leader - Intestinal Health is the global driver for the Intestinal Health platform at Kemin. This platform represents a significant portion of Kemin business selected to growth at an accelerated rate across multiple business units (BU), and geographies.

The Power Platform Leader will work directly with presidents and leadership members to drive the profitable growth of the platform through strategic marketing, new business development, customer-facing projects and product life-cycle management.

This person is responsible for the overall management and marketing strategy for brand products in their platform. This involves the creation of global strategies and market plans which allow Kemin to grow the sales and profitability of the assigned product line(s), implementing a product development process, reducing product cost, and ensuring worldwide product standards. They also work closely with BU marketing and leadership teams in executing the product marketing strategies and achieve financial and customer objectives.

Kemin Intestinal Health offers the most comprehensive portfolio of high-quality and science-based nutritional ingredients to fuel the potential of livestock & poultry, aqua, pets and people. Our environmentally responsible and tailored solutions boost resiliency.

Our solutions support immunity, gut integrity and microbial balance, and proactively address viral, bacterial, parasitic (and toxin) challenges. In this way, we strengthen animals and people and foster a healthy and sustainable business for our customers.

We Are Kemin

We are visionaries who see things differently and are inspired by the world around us. We have been dedicated to using applied science to improve the quality of life for over half a century. We are a global ingredient manufacturer that strives to sustainably transform the quality of life every day for 80 percent of the world with its products and services.

For over half a century, Kemin has been dedicated to using applied science to address industry challenges and offer product solutions to customers in more than 120 countries. Kemin provides ingredients to feed a growing population with its commitment to the quality, safety and efficacy of food, feed and health-related products to customers in more than 120 countries.

Established in 1961, Kemin is a privately held, family-owned-and-operated company with more than 2,800 global employees and operations in 90 countries, including manufacturing facilities in Belgium, Brazil, China, India, Italy, Russia, San Marino, Singapore, South Africa and the United States.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading global platform strategy and driving BUs to hit the overall sales and gross margin targets with a focus on accelerated growth and market share.
• Responsible for coordinating the global strategic marketing plan for the platform, including setting uniform positioning and pricing strategy, targeting and segmenting.
• Responsible for life-cycle management of power brands
• Responsible for developing global go-to-market plans for power brands in coordination with the BU plans.
• Foster a collaborative and productive relationship with the BU leadership teams.
• Responsible for supporting BU plans that cascade from the global plans.
• Lead the global new product development strategy for the platform.
• Drive cross-functional and cross-BU product development teams leading to the launch of meaningful new products.
• Coordinate with BUs the global research trials needed to launch, grow and sustain power brands.
• Coordinate the translation of research data into sales and marketing materials to be used globally.
• Coordinate global regulatory strategy with BUs to register products for launch.
• Direct and manage the expense budget of special funding allocated globally for the power platform.
• Analyze and keep track of market developments. Facilitate market research and maintain knowledge on market trends and competitive actions and develop competitive strategies with the BUs to defend and grow market share.
• Provide marketing and product expertise and training to the BUs to support the education of the commercial team for successful sales outcomes.
• Set and manage global branding standards for the assigned power brands to create a consistent corporate image throughout product lines, promotional materials, and events and build global brand equity for the power brands.
• Consult with BUs on advertising and promotion activities for each region.
• Create and make presentations to customers in global and local forums as needed.
• Report on platform key performance metrics to top company leadership on a regular basis.
• Develop and manage global strategic alliances, and develop and support the negotiation of commercial deal terms with alliances.
• Work with Operations to ensure inventory levels match expected product demand.
  

Qualifications

• Masters of Business Administration (MBA), 7+ years of related experience preferred;
• Master’s Degree, preferably in Marketing, or one of the life sciences, (specific science background is dependent upon position/product focus), with 10+ years of related experience;
  

Essential Skills & Experience

• Demonstrated track record of developing products and achieving budget goals.
• Background must include strategic marketing experience.
• Recent experience in a marketing or commercial role with relevant product portfolio is crucial, a technical background is a strong asset
• International experience highly desired.
• Ability to navigate thought a proforma and put together detailed business plans to support capital and operating expense investment
• At least two years of previous management experience.
• Strong cross functional team, leadership and interpersonal skills to be able to work effectively in a diverse team environment
• Strong financial skills; especially the ability to understand financial statements and to analytically evaluate and understand product costs, margin, pricing and market share
• Demonstrated integrity and honesty in all aspects
• A good understanding of the chemical and biological sciences as they apply to the production of company specific products; an understanding of the products Kemin sells and the technology used in the micro-ingredient nutritional portion of the industry.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Accomplished industry knowledge and experience.
• Must have a solid understanding and adherence to the Servant Leadership philosophy
• Experience as an effective product manager, project team player, leader and motivator; and the ability to present ideas effectively and communicate well with customers, peers and all levels of management
• Must be proactive, self-motivated, energetic, business-minded manager with a broad scientific/technical aptitude knowledge base who is able to provide product leadership, set priorities, delegate responsibilities, and meet timetables leading to the attainment of growth goals.
• Demonstrated achievement of product sales objectives and financial targets.
• Requires a marketing mentality combined with marketing training and experience as it relates to marketing products in the industry.
  

What’s In It For You

• A competitive financial package- in addition to your salary, we offer fringe additional benefits.
• Robust health and wellness support- we are proud to offer an on-site fitness center, and free fresh fruit in break areas- to name a few.
• Continued learning opportunities- Kemin offers tuition reimbursement and recently launched a corporate university with online and in-person training opportunities for growth and development throughout your entire career.
• The chance to give back to our world- Through our foundation of servant leadership, we are proud to offer ample service opportunities. Kemin has a valued corporate partnership with both The World Food Programme and Habitat for Humanity, in addition to many local initiatives.
  

More information about Kemin: take a look at our website: www.kemin.com .

Interested? Then please apply for this position and send us your CV with motivation letter (in 1 pdf-file).