DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR (France-Export)
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Directly attached to the General Management and with the support of functional services, the future incumbent will have to:
1/ Draw up a new development strategy for his department. A member of the management committee, he participates more broadly in the strategic thinking of the company.
2/ Translate this department’s strategy by:
o The possible design of additional offers in response to new market needs, with the support of the R&D team, the Quality Manager, and the Production team but also external partners.
o Marketing of products, with:
– Determination of the various key points: definition of costs and pricing policy, sourcing of raw materials, logistics, purchasing and subcontracting, distribution process, associated communications,
– Management of commercial actions:
a / Definition of objectives (and necessary means) and monitoring of the results of salespeople and export partners
b / Attendance at events in support of local sales forces.
This management distinguishes:
– The domestic market: identification, management and development of key contacts (distributors, manufacturers),
– Export markets: market study (culinary cultures, forces present, potential volume), detection, study and selection, contracting then monitoring of importers / distributors but also of manufacturers.
3/ The ability to guarantee production by ensuring the ‘Cost – Quality – Deadline’ triptych and respecting food safety requirements and more broadly the systems and other procedures, in particular validated by audits of partners (customers, BRC, etc.)
4/ The management, with the support of the HRD, directly six department heads (recruitment, training, evaluation, support, setting of objectives then monitoring their achievement) and ‘indirectly’, around thirty permanent employees.
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