Senior Technical Service Manager Confectionery

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.

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.

• 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.