COSUCRA Group Warcoing, (www.cosucra.com), is a Belgian family business incorporated in 1852 and active in the production of natural food ingredients.

Cosucra is based in Pecq (Warcoing - between Courtrai and Tournai), and offers solutions for a healthy diet through a specialist sales network in more than forty-five countries worldwide.

“Together we are creating a sustainable future for everyone by passionately sharing our talents”.

In order to reinforce our Marketing Team we are looking for a new Product Manager.

As Product Manager your main mission will be managing the marketing mix for two ranges of products: pea cell-wall fibre (SWELITE™) and pea starch (NASTAR™). Other missions will be supporting sales team and work on sustainability programs within our Corporate Social Responsibility team.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Propose and monitor the marketing mix of ranges pea cell-wall fibre (SWELITE™) and pea starch (NASTAR™):

  • Based on the technical capabilities and the market needs, you steer the positioning of your range towards the most attractive segments and regions. Through your tight links with the other departments (supply, operations, …), you are able to put the offer in adequation with the capabilities.
  • Together with the regions, you fix the prices and optimize the margin of your range.
  • In collaboration with Communication department, you set up the communication strategy of your range and you are responsible of the roll out of the media plan. You elaborate efficient sales tools and provide the appropriate training to sales team and distributors.
  • You define KPIs for your range and design a dedicated dashboard.
  • You identify opportunities (ingredients and concepts) and monitor the action plan at short, medium and long term. Continuously proposing innovative ideas, you develop together with the application lab concepts in line with global food and nutrition trends.
  • You realize market surveys about ingredients, segments and competition for your range and are able to report key points depending on the objective and the audience.
• Support the sales team and distributors to promote innovation and strategic projects: exhibitions, workshops, conferences.
• Participate to the elaboration of the Corporate Sustainability strategy and manage the deployment of this policy across the ranges together with other Product Managers.

ABOUT YOU

• You have a great ability to work in team and have a collaborative approach in solving problems.
• Your fuel is to manage projects in relation with internal and external partners.
• You have excellent communication skills.
• You are creative, analytical and assertive.
• You are well-organized and able to deal with stressful situation.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE POSITION

• You have a 1^st experience in product management in the food sector. Experience within the food ingredients sector and BtoB business is an asset.
• You have a technical background or technical affinities by experience.
• Sustainability is not just a word for you, you intend to change planet’s future by your action.
• You are fluent in English. You also speak French or are open to learn it (for internal communication). Any additional language is an asset.

COSUCRA (www.cosucra.com), is a Belgian family owned business established in 1852 and based in Warcoing (Belgium), in Walloon Picardy. Originally active in sugar production, the group has undergone a major transformation over the last twenty years to become a pioneer in the production of healthy ingredients derived from chicory and pea.
Its pioneering vision on natural ingredients allows COSUCRA to hold an industrial and commercial leadership position in its market. And a constant investment in Research and Development is supporting its major strategy: innovation! Currently, COSUCRA is exporting its products to more than 50 countries.

Chicory is an ancestral agricultural production in Belgium, North of France and the Netherlands. Inulin is a dietary fiber present in many fruit and vegetables but in chicory you will find the highest concentration. FibrulineTM is a range of high quality inulin gently extracted by Cosucra from Chicory root.

To strengthen our team, we are currently looking for a:

Product Manager chicory root fiber

You propose and monitor the marketing mix of your range:

• Based on the technical capabilities and the market needs, you steer the positioning of your range towards the most attractive segments and regions. Through your tight links with the other departments (supply, operations, …), you are able to put the offer in adequation with the capabilities.
• Together with the regions, you fix the prices and optimize the margin of your range.
• In collaboration with Communication department, you set up the communication strategy of your range and you are responsible of the roll out of the media plan. You elaborate efficient sales tools and provide the appropriate training to sales team and distributors.
• You define KPIs for your range and design a dedicated dashboard.

• You identify opportunities (ingredients and concepts) and monitor the action plan at short, medium and long term. Continuously proposing innovative ideas, you develop together with the application lab concepts in line with global food and nutrition trends.
• You realize market surveys about ingredients, segments and competition for your range and are able to report key points depending on the objective and the audience.
• You travel with sales managers and distributors to promote innovation: exhibitions, workshop, conferences.

• You have a great ability to work in team and have a collaborative approach in solving problems.
• Your fuel is to manage projects in relation with internal and external partners.
• You have excellent communication skills.
• You are creative, analytical and assertive.
• You are well-organised and able to deal with stressful situation.

Requirements for the position

• You have a relevant experience in product management in the food sector. Experience within the food ingredients sector and BtoB business is an asset.
• You have a technical background or technical affinities by experience.
• You are fluent in English. You also speak French or are open to learn it (for internal communication). Any additional language is an asset.
• You are attracted to new marketing technologies.

Tags: product management, product manager, marketing, chemistry, bioengineering, bioengineering, chemical, food.

• A regular full-time open-ended contract.
• A challenge and the opportunity to work in an action-packed industrial and technological environment.
• Excellent prospects for furthering your career and personal development.
• Unusual professional experience in a fast-moving business environment and culture advocating the taking of initiative and independence among its employees.
• An attractive salary package.

Cosucra does not accept unsolicited referrals or resumes from any source other than directly from candidates. We will not consider unsolicited referrals and/or resumes from vendors including and without limitation, search firms, staffing agencies, fee-based referral services and recruiting agencies. The submission of referrals or resumes by anyone other than a candidate directly to Cosucra employees is strictly prohibited. Unsolicited referrals and resumes sent to Cosucra are deemed gratuitous, and the company will not be obligated or bound in any way to pay any referral or other fee if a person referred to us from a source other than a candidate is hired.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, resumes will be accepted from approved vendors who have written agreements in place with Cosucra, and then only to the extent such agreement covers a specified position and, if required by such agreement, the submission of resumes by the vendor has been authorized in writing by Cosucra for such specified position. Any resume submitted in the absence of a signed agreement will become the property of Cosucra and no fee shall be due.

Our company 

Bluecrux is a team of 100+ business consultants with a passion for supply chain & operations. We believe in personal commitment, customer focus and simply “going for it”. And we’re growing fast, so we want to keep the wheel turning. 

By joining bluecrux, you will work within a broad range of industries – including life sciences, food & beverages, chemicals, manufacturing and service logistics. 

Our planning squad makes the different aspects of planning tick and click. By enhancing the organizational, process and system setup of our clients, we make their supply chain planning a true asset. Furthermore, the squad is constantly on the lookout for improvements to increase the satisfaction of our multinational clients.  

As a Senior Consultant Planning, you possess the innate talent for recognizing planning-related problems and are easily triggered to solve them.

Your role 

• You assume a coaching role and guide your team towards their goals. Besides, you take full responsibility for the project and keep track of deliverables, milestones, resources and costs. 
• You organize client workshops in order to detect the client’s needs and the challenges that are tied to their planning and broader supply chain. 
• You manage to gather all necessary information, without losing yourself in details. In this process, you make sure all stakeholders are involved and aligned.  
• Towards your client, you’re a strategic partner. Together, you work out how supply chain-wide transformation can drive growth, reduce costs and spark innovation. 
• You co-create and design the playbook together with the client. It documents the new way of working both on process and on organizational level.  
• You provide guidance during the entire implementation process and make sure it happens in a smooth and structured manner. 
• You’re responsible for the follow-up of the project in order to ensure client satisfaction. 

Our company 

Bluecrux is a team of 100+ business consultants with a passion for supply chain & operations. We believe in personal commitment, customer focus and simply “going for it”. And we’re growing fast, so we want to keep the wheel turning. By joining bluecrux, you will work within a broad range of industries – including life sciences, food & beverages, chemicals, manufacturing and service logistics.

In the light of industry 4.0, our operations team helps our clients to set up for success in a digital world, guiding them on their journey of digital transformation, using automation and technology solutions at the very forefront of innovation. Our goal is to shape the future of business operations, enabling our clients to achieve their business goals. 

You will become part of the driving motor of the digital transformation within Bluecrux.  

Your role 

• You guide the operations squad towards the development and implementation of operational strategies that solve our clients complex operational challenges and most critical problems. 
• You take full responsibility for the project and keep track of deliverables, milestones, resources and costs.
• Responding to the global digital challenge, you will build business prototypes and transform digital opportunities into technology investments that translate into business results. 
• You will work to configure organizations so they can achieve rapid improvements in digital operations & innovation, revenue,  costs and customer experience. You help build the smart factory of tomorrow. 
• You will take on an advisory role during the digital transformation within operations and the accompanying functional design. You will ensure technology and business solutions represent business requirements. 
• You will define and architect solutions for our clients. This will include estimating the components required to provide a comprehensive digital solution that meets and exceeds the client’s expectations delivering tangible business value. 
• You will provide advice, guidance and training to clients in the use of digital technologies to improve operational performance. You understand and translate customer needs into business and technology solutions and/or solutions that deliver business value quickly.  

Our company 

Bluecrux is a team of 100+ business consultants with a passion for supply chain & operations. We believe in personal commitment, customer focus and simply “going for it”. And we’re growing fast, so we want to keep the wheel turning. 

By joining bluecrux, you will work within a broad range of industries – including life sciences, food & beverages, chemicals, manufacturing and service logistics.

Our transformation squad guides companies during their transformation processes in the supply chain and operations field, more specifically the design, mapping and implementation of all involved processes. Moreover, the transformation squad conducts ERP- (e.g. SAP S/4HANA) and end-to-end implementations.  

Your role 

• You are fully responsible for transformation projects from A to Z.  
• Design: You provide a detailed outline of the processes, the organization, IT-systems, people, roles and responsibilities. 
• Implementation: You make sure business and IT are aligned when formulating business requirements and the translating them into technical requirements. 
• Training: You enable end-users to easily adapt to the new system by coaching and training them. 
• You assume a coaching role and guide your team towards their goals. Besides, you take full responsibility for the project and keep track of deliverables, milestones, resources and costs. 
• You ensure a fluent communication of the project progress to all relevant stakeholders. 
• You take the impact on people, behaviour and IT into account and elaborate a communication plan that keeps employees up to date on why, how and when and where change will be implemented. 
• You guide the organization towards the ‘go live’ of the newly implemented system.  

Our company 

Bluecrux is a team of 100+ business consultants with a passion for supply chain & operations. We believe in personal commitment, customer focus and simply “going for it”. And we’re growing fast, so we want to keep the wheel turning. 

By joining bluecrux, you will work within a broad range of industries – including life sciences, food & beverages, chemicals, manufacturing and service logistics. 

Our planning squad makes the different aspects of planning tick and click. By enhancing the organizational, process and system setup of our clients, we make their supply chain planning a true asset. Furthermore, the squad is constantly on the lookout for improvements to increase the satisfaction of our multinational clients.  

Your role 

• You organize client workshops in order to detect the client’s needs and the challenges that are tied to their planning and broader supply chain. 
• You manage to gather all necessary information, without losing yourself in details. In this process, you make sure all stakeholders are involved and aligned.  Towards your client, you’re a strategic partner. Together, you work out how supply chain-wide transformation can drive growth, reduce costs and spark innovation. 
• You co-create and design the playbook together with the client. It documents the new way of working both on process and on organizational level.  
• You provide guidance during the entire implementation process and make sure it happens in a smooth and structured manner. 
• You’re responsible for the follow-up of the project in order to ensure client satisfaction.