Product Manager Pharma (80% - 100%)
With approximately 480 employees, KLK Kolb is one of the leading alkoxylation companies in Europe and offers a wide range of surfactants, chemical specialties, paper process chemicals and customer-specific products for various industries. KLK Kolb is a member of the global KLK OLEO Group. We sell our products worldwide and currently have three manufacturing sites in the heart of Europe (Hedingen/CH, Moerdijk/NL, and Delden/NL).
Are you an independent, entrepreneurial, and result-oriented personality who would like to work in an internationally growing company? Then we look forward to receiving your application documents for the position of
Your new role
- Your focus will be the introduction of new products into the pharmaceutical excipient market. This includes the process of introducing those products, in close collaboration with sales, business development and R&D, innovation, and production.
- Ensure regular knowledge transfer between R&D and sales on your portfolio and manage legal, regulatory, and toxicological data, functionality, literature, and patent research with relevant functions (e.g., QA and regulatory affairs.
- Provide on-going business decision support in organic growth and investment within current and future product portfolio.
- Manage the whole product life cycle of those products, including target group analysis, competitor analysis, trend analysis, pricing policies (e.g., value-based pricing), product marketing and sales support.
- Periodical portfolio evaluation, check plan-actual comparison, and take corrective actions if necessary to assure sustainable and profitable growth of the portfolio.
- Provide technical input and assist in creating marketing documentation such as posters, brochures, flyers, presentation, and trade fair material; conduct training sessions and deliver technical presentations at trade fairs and events.
- Assure in day-to-day operations that introduced products have adequate technical complaint handling within the departments and participate in quality-related product topics for continuous improvement (incl. CAPAs, change management, audits, and customer questionnaires.
- Support new customer acquisitions including lead generation in Pharma, Veterinary and Diagnostics
- Attend seminars, conventions and trade fairs including booth supervision, if requested
- Accompany sales managers on business trips and provide technical support.
Desired skills and experience
- Degree from University of Applied Science (FH) or University/ETH qualified in a natural science discipline (Pharmaceutical Science, Biotechnology, Chemistry etc.) with prior knowledge working in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Experience in marketing or another customer-related activity, ideally in the field of surfactants for pharmaceutical and biotechnological excipients as well as diagnostic applications.
- Excellent people skills with a confident demeanor.
- Strong commercial acumen and a passion marketing related topics.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build strategic relationships and lead cross functional internal teams to ensure customer expectations are met.
- Self-organized with high team competences to achieve optimal results for our customers in cooperation with other internal departments.
- Connected thinking, able to grasp complex information and communicate in a concise manner.
- Fluency in English and German, other languages are a plus.
- Willingness to travel in Europe (case-by-case)
Our offer
- A challenging, versatile, and responsible job in a rapidly growing international company.
- Working place/employment can be Hedingen/Switzerland or remote in France or Germany.
- A professional, established organization with an open, international, and creative working environment.
- Personal and professional development opportunities.
- Attractive employment conditions.
We are interested in a long-term, successful collaboration. You too? We are looking forward to receiving your
application by email to Ms. Marianne Pantli at: Write an email
Arbeitsort
Maienbrunnenstrasse 1
8908 Hedingen
Kontakt
Marianne Pantli
HR Manager
Website
Hedingen / CH-8908 Hedingen
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