Marketing Manager 40 - 32 hours @FSSC
Vacancy at FSSC
The FSSC Foundation is a non-profit organization and independent scheme owner with a mission: to give confidence and make an impact in the consumer goods industry.
More than 37,000 organizations worldwide are certified to the FSSC 22.000 Scheme for Food Safety Management Systems, including premium A brands. The FSSC 24.000 Social Sustainability scheme was published about a year ago. Both schemes contribute to FSSC's vision to create a better world by helping organizations contribute to the SDG’s. FSSC employs about 50 professionals, half of them work from the Netherlands, the rest from other locations in the world.
The Marketing Manager will report to Atie van Olst, Marketing & Communications Director.
Vacancy Marketing Manager
This is not a remote position. FSSC expects you to live in and be legally allowed to work in the Netherlands
The ultimate objective is to contribute to the position, awareness, and reputation of the Foundation FSSC as the leading brand Certification Scheme owner.
Key result areas
Strategy:
- Align the FSSC strategic marketing aspects with the MarCom Strategy
- In close cooperation with the Communication Manager, translate the MarCom strategy into annual MarCom plans
- Take a key role in safeguarding value innovation, based on FSSC’s brand identity, and a customer-centric approach
Management:
- Contribute to balanced planning for marketing activities as part of innovative projects, and for ‘running the business’ within the MarCom team
- Be responsible for event management
- Use the insights gathered for Market & Marketing Intelligence as input for the marketing strategies
- Oversee all MarCom KPIs including brand awareness, reputation, and sentiment
Operational:
- Implement customer-centric marketing campaigns and activities
- Initiate, monitor, and execute brand and market research and internal and external stakeholder surveys
- Take the lead in organizing our in-person events
The ideal candidate Marketing Manager has
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in marketing
- 8+ years of relevant experience, preferably in an international B2B organization
- A strategic mindset and analytical skills
- Experience with market research and website usability
- Knowledge of, or feeling with, the world of auditing & certification related to food safety or social sustainability
- A team player attitude
- Intercultural awareness
- Strong written and verbal presentation skills
- Fluency in English; read, write, and speak English at a high proficiency level.