Food Trend Manager Apac, Innovation Center
1 week ago
**Job Location: Singapore**:
Singapore
**Company description**:
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 38,767 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
**Diversity Statement**:
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
**About the Role**:
The role is aimed to identify, understand, and evaluate key nutritional trends that may be relevant to Ferrero’s mid
- to long-term product innovation roadmap.
**Main Responsibilities**:
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis on nutritional trends in Sweet Packaged Foods for the Asian markets (India and China in priority)
- Map and discover established and emerging food trends and how they are impacted by trend drivers
- Continuously monitor priority nutritional trends to short-term shifts and long-term evolution trajectories, that underpin future opportunities for Ferrero
- Manage spots and gaps between identified trends and Ferrero innovation roadmap
- Work in strong collaboration with internal stakeholders in legal, R&D and strategic development teams to ensure different functional touchpoints are aligned
- Provide food trends with a focus on nutritional trends and contribute actively to cross-functional activities and projects at the Innovation Center and broader strategy and innovation teams
- Develop and actively engage with a high-quality network of external experts in Asian food trends to validate and enrich Ferrero’s understanding of trend evolutions
- Handle the monitoring of food trend KOLs and collaboration with external food trend research agencies
**Who we are looking for**:
- Master's Degree+ in Nutrition, Food Science, or related fields
- 10+ years of relevant experience in FMCG MNC
- Knowledge of F&B categories in the Asian market (product positioning, claims)
- Awareness of food and regulatory landscape for the Asian region
- Strong qualitative and quantitative analysis skillset to enable development of insight and foresight about future trend trajectory
- Proven ability to translate trend insights into concrete innovation opportunities
- Communication and collaboration skills with ability manage multiple stakeholders and synthesize their inputs
- Experience in managing multitasking projects and dealing with different teams (commercial, marketing, R&D, and regulatory) across different time zones
- Strong written and presentation skills
- Proactivity and open-mindness
- Fluency in English, working proficiency in Chinese is preferrable
**How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero**:
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.
Strong analytical mind, attention to details on one hand, and ability to cooperate with employees at all levels and great organisational skills on the other, would be key to success. Employee contribution and engagement at Ferrero is based on the individual, team and organisation dimension, so you should have the ability to work independently, as a part of the team and build good relations with stakeholders at all levels. Being flexible and dealing with a dynamic working environment as well as the ability to embed new knowledge and skills in existing competencies will definitely help you to become high performer here.
Requisition ID
60374
Job function
Research & Development
Country
Singapore
City
Singapore
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