Operational Marketing Manager

Main Functions

He/she will be primarily responsible for leading operational marketing activities related to animal environment solutions and yeast-derived product lines. The ideal candidate has significant marketing and communication skills as well as experience in a scientific industry or a scientific background. 

He/she will have frequent interactions with product managers, technical deployers and the sales team. In addition, he/she will have to interact with global and local marketing teams to ensure consistency of actions and processes.

The tasks associated with this position mainly include marketing objectives :

• Implement the external communication strategy and carry out communication actions through the different channels: website, newsletter, promotional articles, social networks, press and specialized media, etc.
• Participate in defining marketing communication action plans while managing 360° communication campaigns.
• Support product managers and technical support teams in the content and development of promotional/technical presentations and sales tools.
• Participate in the organization of customer events.
• Ensure internal communication related to the portfolio: internal communication for new tools, organization of webinars, library of internal documents.
• Ensure a link with local Lallemand teams to adapt/use the right promotional actions.
• Manage and track marketing budgets.
• Contribute to market intelligence: market trends, competition file.
• Monitor and report key performance indicators (KPIs) for marketing activities.

Technical skills

Required

• Master requis en agriculture, agronomie, marketing/communication ou domaine connexes.

Personal abilities

Required

• 5 years of professional experience – international context
• Organized
• Rigorous
• Autonomous
• Creative Business oriented

Other

• Team spirit – good interpersonal skills

General criteria

Required

• 10% travel required (to be confirmed).

Organization

Lallemand is a privately held Canadian company founded in the late 19th century, which develops, produces, and markets microorganisms for various markets. The administrative offices of the parent company are in Montreal, Canada. Today, Lallemand employs more than 5,000 people working in more than 45 countries on 5 continents.

Lallemand Animal Nutrition is committed to optimizing animal performance and wellbeing with specific microbial product and service solutions. We develop, produce and market silage additives, probiotics, antioxidants and yeast derivatives for animal nutrition, as well as microbial solutions for animal environment. We serve all livestock markets: ruminant, swine, poultry, aquaculture as well as equine and companion animals. We like to define ourselves as a “field-led science supported” company. As such, our solutions are supported by a strong commitment to R&D and technical support with a team of experts in the field. Our solutions are marketed in over 80 countries around the world, through our own sales teams or local distributors.

Please take note that accommodations will be provided in all parts of the hiring process. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.