Head of Commercial Strategic Partnerships - Beverage Solutions

Kerry Group • Beloit, WI

2d • $129,000 - $239,500

About The Position

As the Head of our Commercial Strategic Partnerships, you will support our beverage EUM (End Use Market) in North America to build a market leading reputation in beverage solutions, helping to develop commercial relationships with some of North America's biggest and leading third-party manufacturers. You will also provide leadership for the sales function of the team, proactively leading with insight and showing customers the value of Kerry's capability.

Requirements

• Degree in Food Science, Food Technology or Food Marketing or Business/ Business Management.
• Minimum 12 years of experience in beverage creation and execution in-store across a store network.
• Must have a strong technical background in Beverages from a Taste / Flavour and/or Beverage Solutions environment to be able to understand consumer needs and be the link to R&D.
• Strong verbal and written communication, comfortable presenting to small and large audiences.
• Comfortable working across multiple departments in a deadline-driven environment.
• Active team leader, self-starter, and multitasker who can quickly adjust priorities.
• Availability to travel up to 50%.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the knowledge and centre of excellence for beverage in-store execution to support our commercial teams to deliver for our customers.
• Create and lead LTO programmes with our Foodservice Customers to drive growth, profitability and a point of difference for the channel.
• Overall leadership and responsibility for the in-store Application Function.
• Be a hands-on leader, showing through action and outcomes for your own projects to lift up others accounts.
• Lead interaction and workflow between project team functions making it easier and more valuable for our customers to do business with Kerry.
• Support continued improvement in our NPS Score through leadership in beverage design and in-store execution
• Stay well-informed of changes in the competitive landscape to enable design of differentiated beverage solutions and positioning customized to our portfolio.
• Lead with R&D team to deliver overall cross functional excellence and consistent ways of working to ensure our work delivers results
• Lead thought leadership in Beverage Applications to support our aspirations to be the go-to supplier of choice for beverage solutions.

Benefits

• Kerry offers a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, Employee Share Plan, Life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees