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Commercial Marketing Manager with UTZ CERTIFIED

Sustainable Innovations™ – Partnerships for a Better Tomorrow. Do you want to work on the cutting edge of business and non-profit, where ideals and pragmatism meet? Come and join our team at UTZ CERTIFIED – Good Inside.

Job Description

UTZ CERTIFIED is the largest certification program for responsible produced and sourced coffee. While we are not-for-profit, we organize our activities in a business-like structure. UTZ CERTIFIED provides coffee brands the assurance of good social and environmental practices and traceability. In the next years we have the ambition to become the leading certification program for sustainable cocoa, tea and other (food) commodities. In the light of growth and expansion we are looking for a:
Commercial Marketing Manager

The Commercial Marketing Manager is responsible for:

• Playing an active role in positioning the new products (cocoa, tea palm oil, soy)of UTZ certified as a label;
• Developing, coordinating and implementing UTZ CERTIFIED’s new-products marketing and communication strategy in the US and Canada;
• Building effective links between business support and marketing/communications & new-products managers;
• Initiating and maintaining contact with clients;
• Designing of brochures and promo materials;
• Developing and maintaining sales support materials;
• Building and maintaining customer relations;
• Understanding and analyzing customer needs.
  

Qualifications and Requirements:

We are looking for an experienced commercial marketeer to join our team. He/she will have excellent marketing and communication skills and initiative, and an ability to bridge the entrepreneurial drive of UTZ CERTIFIED with our non-profit foundation status. Additional qualifications include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing and Communications or related field and/or equivalent education/experience in the sales and marketing field;
• At least three to five years experience with sales and marketing in FMCG or bulk commodity business;
• Experience in cocoa, tea or bulk commodities business or actual market knowledge is a big plus;
• Excellent communication skills, strong copy-writing skills;
• Excellent influencing and negotiating skills;
• Strong drive; enthusiastic; energetic; pro-active and responsive. A real hands-on mentality;
• A strong team player with inter-personal and inter-cultural sensitivity, able to work well across functions;
• International experience (a must);
• Familiarity with certification and sustainability issues (a plus)
• Demonstrable affinity for non-profit business and Corporate Social Responsibility;
• Fluency in English, French, Spanish a big plus. Dutch and German are assets.

UTZ CERTIFIED provides an exciting, international work environment, and opportunity to work from home, telecommute, and keep a manageable carbon foot-print. UTZ CERTIFIED offers competitive compensation and benefits.

The Commercial Marketing Manager reports to the General Manager of North American Operations. This is a full-time position.

Interested?

To apply for this position, please email

. Please include your resume and letter of interest, and indicate UTZ CERTIFIED Commercial Marketing Manager in the subject line.

For more information about UTZ CERTIFIED - Good Inside, please visit www.utzcertified.org.