Product Manager - (Feed Additives) - EastRand

• Actively drive, promote and support all sales activities of the Feed Additive Range
• Be the first “go-to” person for technical issues and requests on the relevant products
• Training and technical support to internal staff with good presentation skills, follow up on possible areas of knowledge development requirements and address
• Organize, follow-up and take control of feed additive field trials and prepare relevant documentation
• Identify new business opportunities for new products, re-launches, packaging changes, and range extensions, and proposes initial plans to exploit these opportunities
• Prepares product marketing plans and discontinuation plans to ensure that the new product range is in tune with market opportunities
• Prepares sales and profit estimates for future products
• Liaises with internal departments and external agencies to ensure full communication and success of marketing plans
• Keep up-to date commercial and technical brochures, leaflets, presentations, labels, packaging, certificates and other means of communication for the products
• Constantly monitors performance of the product portfolio to ensure it meets organization objectives.
• Safeguard the quality of the products in cooperation with the quality department, and follow-up on customer complaints

• Master’s degree, BSc Animal Science or Nutrition / Veterinary / experienced and several years of experience in product management
• 5 years related experience
• Intermediate PC skills with strong knowledge of spreadsheet and word processing packages
• Excellent Communication skills (verbal and written)
• Willingness to travel 25% of the time
• Coordinates with internal and external parties (Sales, R&D, Procurement, agencies, key customers, etc.)
• Implements the overall product-marketing policy into a profitable product portfolio

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