Brand Manager to Santa Maria and Paulig

At Paulig we love flavors and we love food! With our products and concepts, we are a natural part of all meals throughout the day – breakfast as dinner. We are constantly striving to find the best flavors around the world and for more people to enjoy these flavors! All employees take a part in getting there – and we are all equally important in that. It's everything from our in-house chefs, to you starting with us as Brand Manager. We hope you want to contribute by seeing opportunities for what we can create with our Brands Asia and Risenta and its product range.

The role



We offer a broad, developing and varied role for someone who are in the beginning of their career. As Brand Manager, you will work at the Global Brand &Portfolio department, which includes the Brands Santa Maria, Paulig Coffea, Poco Loco, Risenta and Gold & Green. Within the department is your team, Healthy World Food &Snacking, which today consists of three experienced Brand Managers and a marketing assistant. Together you work with the Brands Risenta and Asia and have a central function that is responsible for portfolio strategy/analysis, road maps, innovation, product development and communication with a focus on consumer and category insights in the international market.

The role as a Brand Manager, includes project management and together with the team you also have responsibility for the different parts of the portfolios. Each Brand Manager also has an assigned product responsibility. You work closely together to create profitable growth and develop our products, concepts and offerings. Your role is a mix of both strategic and operational tasks linked to product, assortment and communication. In practice, you will work with consumer insights and category analysis to identify opportunities and develop the marketing mix. You will be an important player for us as you partly will run your own projects and also support the other Brand Managers in various multifunctional projects related to assortment improvement, NPD, communication and activation concepts. The role is very dynamic and you will interact with many colleagues in the organization such as R&D, purchasing, finance, local markets and external agencies.

Your experience

We believe that you are in the beginning of your career. Maybe did you just finished your studies?

It is meritorious if you have 1-2 years of experience in a similar role, perhaps as a Junior Brand Manager and/or as a marketing coordinator. It is also a meritorious if you have worked in the food and restaurant industry and/or within FMCG and have a great passion for food! If you have been involved in other non-profit organization/business, that is a big plus.

A requirement for the role is that you have either a university degree or a similar education, within Marketing and/or Economics. Since we are an international organization, it is important that you have good English knowledge in both speech and writing, it is meritorious if you also speak Swedish. You will work a lot in Excel and Powerpoint therefore it is also important that you are an experienced user of it. Furthermore, we would also like to see that you have a great interest in consumer marketing and analys data.

Who are you?

In this recruitment we highly value your personal qualities and attitude. Being driven, results-oriented and curious with a "can do" attitude are qualities that are important for the role. We would like you to be good at planning, project management and driving things forward. Since you have many different projects running at the same time, it is important that you have good planning skills and work well under pressure. You see opportunities in change and have a good ability to adapt to the current situation. Being brave is also an appreciated quality. We also see that you are a confident person who takes responsibility for your work.

Since the role involves contact with others, it is important that you like to collaborate with others and have strong social skills. Finally, it is important that you have a good analytical ability and can easy see the context and connection between activity and business benefit.

What can Paulig offer you?

We offer you a dynamic and open workplace with great opportunities to continue to grow. We are an organization that live our culture which is based on our three values: Stay Curious, Strive for Excellence and Grow Together. Your colleagues are deeply passionate of their work and support each other and we have lovely office in Mölndal. Many of us spend most days in the office and take the opportunity to enjoy the good breakfast and lunch that is available in our restaurant Taste by Santa Maria.

About Santa Maria and Paulig

Paulig is a family-owned food and beverage company, growing a new, sustainable food culture – one that is good for both people and the planet. Paulig provides all things tasty; coffees and beverages, Tex Mex and spices, snacks and plant-based choices. The company's brands are Paulig, Santa Maria, Risenta, Gold&Green and Poco Loco. Paulig’s sales amounted to EUR 920 million in 2020. The company has over 2,000 passionate employees in 13 different countries working around the purpose For a life full of flavour.

Application

In this recruitment Santa Maria and Paulig cooperates with KIMM. For further information about the role please contact Recruitment Consultant Sophia Francke sophia.francke@wise.se. We look forward to receiving your application via www.kimm.se. You apply with your CV or LinkedIn profile and will be asked to kindly answer a few questions. If you go further in the process, you will within two days be invited to carry out two tests (aptitude and personality). We include these tests in all our recruitment processes in order to ensure an objective, open-minded and fair selection work.

All applications and contacts remain confidential. Selection is ongoing so do not wait to submit your application.