You see an opportunity in the market. Perhaps a new concept for the catering industry. An innovative application for the food industry. Or an improvement to an existing product that helps customers work more efficiently. You investigate the possibilities, build a business case, and ultimately bring the idea to market.
As a B2B Product Manager at Verstegen, you work on the further growth of our brand within foodservice, fresh service, and industry. You also guide private label requests from start to finish. You navigate between market insights, innovation, product development, and commercial opportunities. You work closely with colleagues from sales, R&D, category development, operations, supply chain, and marketing.
Are you someone who enjoys spotting opportunities, driving projects, and actually realizing ideas? Then we'd like to get to know you.
You will join Verstegen's B2B team. This team is responsible for the development and growth of the Verstegen product range within the business market.
Together with the Lead Product Manager B2B and your colleagues, you will work daily on new products, range improvements, and commercial growth opportunities. Communication lines are short, the atmosphere is informal, and there is ample room for personal initiative. Good ideas have the chance to become reality here.
While the B2C team focuses on consumers in supermarkets, your focus will be on professional users. This includes chefs, catering establishments, meal producers, fresh food specialists, and industrial clients. You will continuously consider how our products can make their work easier, better, and more flavourful.
As a B2B Product Manager, you are responsible for developing, improving, and successfully launching products and concepts within our business markets. Your responsibilities include:
Identifying market developments, customer needs and commercial opportunities within foodservice, fresh service and industry.
Setting up and managing innovation and improvement funnels for the B2B assortment.
Developing business cases for new products, concepts, and growth opportunities.
Initiating and supervising product introductions, assortment improvements, and packaging projects.
Guiding projects through the entire stage-gate process, from initial idea to market introduction.
Collaborate with sales, R&D, category development, operations, supply chain, and marketing.
Prioritizing projects and monitoring planning, quality, and progress.
Translating market insights into concrete actions that contribute to the growth of Verstegen.
You are curious, enterprising, and analytically strong. You see opportunities in the market, are energized by improvement, and know how to turn ideas into concrete results.
Additionally, you bring:
● A completed HBO degree (Commercial Economics, Business Administration, Marketing, International Marketing & Management, Food Innovation, or similar).
● Approximately two to three years of relevant work experience within product management, category management, marketing, or innovation.
● Experience within FMCG, foodservice, the food industry, or a comparable environment is a strong plus.
● Experience with project management and guiding product introductions.
● Affinity with business cases, funnel management, and stage-gate processes.
● Proficient in both Dutch and English.
● Salary up to €5,435 gross per month based on 37.5 hours per week.
● 8.33% holiday pay and a €900 end-of-year bonus.
● 26 vacation days with the option to purchase 10 additional days annually.
● Good pension scheme.
● Travel allowance of €0.23 per kilometer.
● Opportunities for training and personal development.
● Discount on the entire Verstegen product range.
● Bicycle plan and company fitness scheme.
● An informal working atmosphere within a Rotterdam family business where entrepreneurship is valued.
