About Kerry:

Kerry is a world leader in taste and nutrition systems serving the food and beverage industry, and a leading supplier of added-value brands and customer branded foods to the Irish and UK markets.

We have annualised sales in excess of 5 billion Euro and employ over 23,000 people globally.

Founded in 1972 in Listowel, Co. Kerry, the Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions and has succeeded in achieving sustained profitability.

We supply over 15,000 food, food ingredients and flavour products to customers in more than 140 countries worldwide.

We have established manufacturing facilities in 24 different countries and international sales offices in 20 other countries across the globe.

Kerry has been present in the Asia-Pacific region since 1997 and has grown its business to become a brand of choice for our regional and local customers.

From our Regional Headquarters and Global Technology Innovation Centre based in Singapore, Kerry employs nearly 3500 talented people at manufacturing sites and sales offices in 16 countries across the region.

Kerry prides itself on continuous innovation, technological creativity and business excellence in every area of the business, striving to enhance leadership positions in our consumer foods business and across global food and ingredients markets.

We are looking for people with ambition, vision and a commitment to excellence in a dynamic business environment to achieve and sustain this growth on a long-term basis.

In return, we offer stimulating and rewarding careers from employee to management to leadership levels in a global food organisation.

Being a truly global company, our employees in Asia-Pacific have opportunities to develop their careers in a global environment, with training, career development and international opportunities across the Kerry world.

About the Role:

- The position will focus on the 'End Use Market - Food Group' to develop, position and promote a market driven portfolio of all food technologies and solutions for Indian Subcontinent.

- The Category Manager - Food will need to work very closely with the Commercial Director, Business Development teams, the Creation and Application teams, as well as the key stakeholders and be the key marketing contact for Food group (subject matter expert & support).

- He/she will need to plan, lead and execute the marketing initiatives supporting Kerry's food growth objectives and areas of focus.

- The incumbent will be dealing with the category products including pricing analysis, dealing different product portfolio, new product innovation and different segments/cohorts of customers.

- The role will also be responsible for Managing all External and Internal Communications and supporting the Marketing Director.

Key Responsibilities:

- Build an understanding of Kerry's (EUM- Foods) portfolio, its strengths, and main differentiation points, identify weakness and gaps to fill, with the business development teams.

- Build an understanding of the market, its clients' needs and insights, to support the development of a robust market driven portfolio based on the overall marketing strategy and area of focus.

- Build relevant tools for internal as well as external audiences, such as flavour toolboxes, flavour trends, positioning and benefit statements.

- Be a subject matter expert within depth understanding of the market trends, of our relevant technologies and their selling propositions, dynamics and players and support sales team.

- Develop strong working relationships with the Sales team (Key account Managers and distribution team) to ensure the overall technology push, messaging and key selling arguments are made relevant in a local context with local insights and inputs.

- Work closely with the APAC strategic marketing teams to keep abreast of the developments, best practice sharing and to ensure we position Kerry as the food ingredients and Nutrition Company.

- Work with marketing communication team and consumer insight team to address needs for the Taste initiatives.

- Manage the process to facilitate information/knowledge sharing and transfer.

- Management of communication assets such as brand guidelines, digital content, trade materials, packaging and partnerships (conceptual events, co-promotional events and print).

Person Specification:

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

- Minimum bachelor's degree or business-related field.

- Additional MBA.

- 7 - 8 years 'relevant experience in Marketing in the food flavor and ingredient industry or FMCG/Food industry with Category experience in B2B space.

- Strategic Subject matter expert with strong commercial and technical acumen.

- Highly effective in bringing together market and industry intelligence from various sources to lead development of business strategies.

- Possess excellent leadership and communication skills - credible at senior level and able to facilitate and collaborate across a diverse stakeholder base and locations.

- Ability to anticipate internal and external customer insights to secure buy-in and execution of initiatives and strategies.

- Design - Brand Identity and Standards thought leadership/guardianship.

- Design - Produce concepts/templates/presentations.

Competencies Required:

- Proactive and Innovation lead mindset.

- Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, continuously evolving business environment and has creative and resourceful approach to problem solving.

- Formulates concise initiatives from ideas to complete solutions.

- Creates, executes and drives new initiatives, and formal plans.

- Exhibits organizational inference and decision-making.

- Self-Directed: Maintains a "take charge" attitude, proactive, persistent, drive and focus on finding a way to accomplish objectives with a strong sense of accountability.

- Flexible: Adapt to multiple demands, aligning to priorities, ambiguity & change.

- Deep understanding of categories with an ability to analyse data, trends, build concepts and present to internal and external customers.

- Building Alignment.

- Communication.

- Social media savvy and engaged across different on-line platforms.

- Passionate about the food and beverage industry.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka

Reporting to: Marketing Director - India Subcontinent