Global Product Manager Salmon Health

Skretting is strengthening its ambition within fish health solutions and is looking for an enthusiastic Global Product Manager Salmon Health with competence and experience within fish health and functional feed. We’re seeking a person that will drive the health product portfolio end to end in collaboration with the Global Salmon Innovation Team, our operating companies and our inhouse research departments.

The Global Product Manager Health will be responsible for the commercial and technical lifecycle of the products. This includes growing profitability by building the market position, identifying growth opportunities, leading the development and deliver new products/applications/services to the customer within the health feed segment. We are looking for a product manager that is genuinely concerned about the fish health situation in the industry and want to assist our customers in ensuring good animal welfare. While experience in product management is valuable, we prioritize candidates who embody our core values and demonstrate the potential to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

 As our new colleague you will be part of the Global Salmon Innovation Team and be located at Skretting head office in Stavanger, Norway.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Identify business opportunities for new products and concepts and proposes initial plans to exploit these opportunities.
• Define specifications for new products and improvements of existing offerings.
• Prepare product marketing plans and forecast sales and profit estimates together with local operating teams.
• Close collaboration with fish health specialists in Skretting’s operating companies and with Skretting’s internal scientist teams.
• Liaises with internal departments and external agencies to ensure full communication and success of marketing plans and safeguard the quality of the products in cooperation with the quality department.
• Initiate and follow up registration of new and existing ingredients.

What we ask

We believe you’ll thrive and succeed best with us if you enjoy working in a dynamic and international environment, where innovative thoughts and solutions are welcomed. You set stakeholder priorities first and have a service-oriented and proactive mindset. You can tackle complex questions and overcome challenging situations with confidence. You have an interest in digging into details of new opportunities, and the ability to turn them into commercial reality in collaboration with others, and balance our long-term strategy, with short-term operational needs of our Operational companies.   

What you bring

• Veterinarian or relevant education in Fish Health or related area
• Relevant practical experience, either within a commercial role or a technical role
• Experience from product development and marketing.
• Experience from project management
• Good communication skills in English, both verbal and written. Knowledge of other languages is an advantage.

What we can offer:

Working for Skretting means working in an international environment with lots of development opportunities. Our values of Trust, Inclusivity, Integrity, Passion and Curiosity are important to us, and our culture is strongly characterized by them. In this role you will be close to the core of what we do; innovation and be able to gain valuable insights into our business. We offer challenging tasks that allow you to grow professionally, competitive terms, a good pension and insurance scheme and a strong innovative and inclusive culture.  We encourage and support extracurricular sport, health and cultural activities. We have a good diversity of nationalities, ages and professional backgrounds and have several social activities that are driven forward by our own employees and our social committee.

Some international travel to be expected.

For detailed information about this position, please contact May-Helen Holme, Innovation Director Salmon (may-helen.holme@skretting.com) or Stine Lerstøl, HR Advisor (stine.lerstoel@skretting.com).

Application deadline: 11.04.2024