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Manager Nutrition
What are you going to do now?
Are you our new Manager Nutrition?
Are you passionate about leading international teams, streamlining collaboration at a European level, and ensuring nutrition is recognized as an important added value? Then we are looking for you!
🚀 Your mission: Ensuring the efficient management of our international nutritional team and improving processes and team performance within Duynie.
Duynie is seeking a passionate Manager Nutrition to lead our international team with members from, among others, the Benelux, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Slovakia. Additionally, you will provide support to a wide range of other European countries where Duynie is active. You will work from our offices in the Netherlands but will also frequently be on-site abroad. The challenge in this structure lies in streamlining collaboration at a European level. As the Manager Nutrition, you will be the key link between the nutritional team and the rest of the organization. You will ensure that nutrition is recognized as an important added value for Duynie and will challenge country directors to follow the right technical paths.
In this broad role you will be responsible for the following tasks:
- Developing and implementing strategic plans to improve processes and team performance;
- Leading an international team of nutritionists from various European countries;
- Streamlining and optimizing European processes such as roughage value calculations, matrix values, and the use of our software to enhance efficiency and effectiveness;
- Driving synergy within the departments so that all team members and colleagues from different countries actively collaborate on common goals;
- Actively developing and rolling out new feed concepts, with attention to commercial and qualitative support;
- Acting as the key link between the team and other stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and collaboration;
- Maintaining our high standard of reliability towards our customers;
- Monitoring industry trends and regulatory changes for compliance and innovation;
- Regularly providing updates and reports to senior management on team progress and process improvements.
What are you taking with you?
We are looking for a Manager Nutrition with the following characteristics:
- A completed education in animal husbandry or a similar field;
- At least 4 years of experience in a managerial role;
- A passion for nutrition and sustainability;
- Attention to detail while also seeing the bigger picture;
- Reliability combined with a commercial mindset;
- Experience with ration calculation programs is a plus;
- Strong communication skills in English, preferably also in Dutch and German (or willingness to undergo training).
Additionally, you recognize yourself in the following competencies: empathetic, honest, commercial, resilient, and innovative.
What do you get in return?
In addition to a challenging job within an organization - where you can be proud of its sustainable character 🌿 - we offer the following employment conditions:
- A challenging role in an organization you can be proud of due to its sustainable character;
- A salary between €5,340.38 and €7,749.10 gross per month based on a 40-hour workweek (adjusted based on relevant experience);
- 30 vacation days per year based on a 40-hour workweek;
- Profit-sharing scheme;
- €23.75 gross per month contribution towards health insurance;
- Flexible working hours and the possibility to work partially from home;
- Extensive opportunities for training and development;
- A pleasant workplace with great coffee, free fruit, and soft drinks.
Excited? We look forward to receiving your application! You can apply by clicking the application button below. If you have any questions about the vacancy, please call Berend Benraad (recruiter) at 06-39812039.
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Procedure
- Getting to know you
If you are a good fit for the vacancy, the HR Specialist Recruitment will contact you. This is to get an initial impression and to answer any questions from both sides.
- The first conversation
During the first interview you will come into contact with your potential future manager and of course someone from HR will be present to get to know you better as a person.
- Case
A case may be part of the procedure. This will look at how you would deal with certain practical situations. Often the case can be made from home and sometimes you make the case before the start of the 2nd interview on location.
- The second conversation
How good you are still in the procedure! During this conversation we will go into more detail. In addition, these people also want to get to know you a little better, so that we know for sure that we have a good match.
