Junior Commercial Manager

Junior Commercial Manager - Milk Based Beverages - Norway

Are you a gifted marketing and sales professional, who can set the direction and execute the Milk Based Beverages ambition in Norway? Then you could be the person we are looking for as Junior Commercial Manager. You will join a dedicated group of sales and marketing professionals who create the basis for our brands and partner brands. This is a role where you will drive the daily business and build strong brands and bring new innovations to the marketplace. 

You will report directly to MBB Commercial Director International Toke Rasmussen (in Denmark) and your base will be with our local organisation in Oslo, Norway.   

About the role?

As Junior Commercial Manager you will be operationally responsible for business establishment and business execution.  Whilst you have an immediate KPI of delivering the results pursuant to the MBB Norway ambitions; you will also focus on the development for the future. In brief, your job spans commercial strategies, campaign concepts, budget management, customer insights, local strategies proposals and reporting.  

Your prime objectives will be to obtain, establish and execute marketing and sales plans based on local category insight into consumers, shoppers, customers, channels and competitors. You drive the annual business plans and have P&L impact for your area within MBB which involve brands like Starbucks® Iced coffee and Cocio®. 

Who are you?

To be successful in this role we believe you have a minimum of 2-3 years as Brand Manager or junior Marketing Manager in the beverage category of an international FMCG company with well-known brands and possess a B.Sc/MSc. in Marketing, Business Economics or similar.

This background has given you the skills to bring our products to market and drive well-known consumer brands like Starbucks® Iced coffee to further success. You excel in the relationship building discipline and thrive in the role as initiator and the mastermind behind your marketing and sales activities. Moreover, you have an open and positive mindset, a communicative behavior and proficiency in written and spoken English. If you have experience with beverages it will be seen as an advantage. 

What do we offer?

We are committed to professional development and promoting from within. Our positive and collaborative culture will bring out the best in you. And you will join a market leader who produces nutritious household-favorite brands in a way that makes things better for our customers, the farmers who own us and the whole world.

Arla Foods Norway is the subsidiary of Arla Foods. In Norway we are 18 employees and together we can build on our turnover of approx. 450 mill NOK. We have gained significant market positions within several categories on the Norwegian market and represents well-known and strong brands like Apetina® Cooking cheese, Castello® Specialty cheese, Arla® cheese, Starbucks® Iced coffee, Cocio® Chocolate milk and God Morgon® Juice. Please see arla.no for further information.

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Application and contact

Please apply as soon as possible, and no later than the 22^nd of February. We will process applications on a continuous basis and close the job opening once the right candidate has been found. For questions, please contact MBB Commercial Director International Toke Rasmusen on +45 89 38 15 94.  

COVID-19 Notice:
We are busy producing dairy products so we can continue #fillingtheshelves and #feedingthenation. Recruiting talent to Arla thus stays one of our top priorities also during these difficult times. Necessity is the mother of invention, so we have moved to virtual hiring and onboarding processes for most of our recruitments to enable candidates and our recruitment teams to get close while respecting social distancing. If at the final stages of a recruitment, a candidate would prefer to meet in person, we take all the necessary precautions to ensure everyone's safety.