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Are you passionate about sustainable cultivation, business development, and product innovation? Do you want overall responsibility for the assortment, profitability, and growth? Then we have an interesting position for you!

At Hasselfors Garden, we are looking for a dynamic and innovative Senior Category Manager for our fertilizer and grass seed area.

What We Offer

At Hasselfors Garden, you are offered an important and developmental assignment within an international and long-term group. You will become part of an organization with high competence, a strong collaborative culture, and a clear focus on sustainability and innovation.

We are characterized by lack of hierarchy, engagement, and a warm work environment where you receive full support from day one to succeed in your role. You will work closely with knowledgeable colleagues in Sweden, Finland, and Estonia, as well as with a broad network of international experts.

The position offers the possibility of hybrid work, where you can combine office work in Örebro with remote work. Travel to production facilities and partners occurs.

About the Role

In the role of Senior Category Manager with us, you will be responsible for product and assortment development in the area of fertilizers for Hasselfors, Algomin, as well as private label, taking into account the market and our customers' needs and wishes. You will have the main focus on the Swedish market but in the long term also to some extent for Norway and Denmark.

You drive and develop the category in line with the company's and brand's goals and strategy and are responsible for the product's entire lifecycle – from idea and development to launch and phase-out. You follow trends and conduct market analyses to adapt our product portfolio to market needs. In the role, you will also be involved in the marketing of your product, in close collaboration with our sales and marketing team, to ensure successful products. You also ensure that we follow laws and regulations; good support in these matters is available internally within the company.

You also follow up and analyze sales at the product level and change and improve as needed in relation to our profitability goals and strategies. You drive product development (NPD) such as recipe development, cultivation trials, and the implementation of circular and recycled raw materials. You analyze the results and ensure that packaging labels are correct on our products.

You will belong to Kekkilä-BVB's Nordic brand, marketing, and product team and report to the Vice President in the area. In your daily work, you work closely together with our internal functions such as sales, production, purchasing, customer service, quality, and marketing.

Who Are We Looking For?

We are looking for you who have an academic education in a relevant field and experience in technical product and recipe development.

If you also have knowledge and/or experience in fertilizers, substrates, or related areas, as well as knowledge about raw materials and their impact on cultivation results, chemical legislation, and fertilizer regulations, we consider it meritorious.

To succeed in the role, we believe you have the ability, experience, and interest in developing commercial product concepts and a business mindset where long-term profitability is in focus. If you also have a good understanding of profitability, branding, and the consumer market, we consider it meritorious.

As a person, you are curious, active, and thrive in change. You have good structure and collaboration and project management skills, are solution-focused with an open attitude and a desire to learn new things, renew, and take responsibility. You are analytical and business-minded with a long-term perspective on profitability and enjoy working close to the customer.

You speak and write Swedish and English fluently, have a driver's license (Category B), and experience working in business systems and knowledge of the MS Office package and Power BI.

We also want you to be able to sign up for our values: Focus on customer success, Succeed together, Courage to renew, and Trust through respect.

About Hasselfors Garden

Hasselfors Garden AB is part of Kekkilä-BVB, Europe's leading player in growing substrates. Today we export plant substrates for professional greenhouse growers to over 100 countries. To consumers and the green space industry, we offer advice, plant substrates, and soil in the Nordic countries and Central Europe. As part of being a clear choice for our customers, Kekkilä BVB has put sustainability first in the entire consumption chain. The company's slogan "Care for life" shows how our growing substrates enable food production, green cities, and sustainable cultivation. Kekkilä-BVB is the market leader in the Nordics with well-known brands such as Kekkilä Garden and Hasselfors Garden. Kekkilä-BVB is part of Neova Group. Read more about Kekkilä-BVB at https://www.kekkila-bvb.com/ (https://www.kekkila-bvb.com/). For Hasselfors Garden, everything started in 1603 in Hasselfors, Närke. The company has a long and solid history that makes us one of the ten oldest companies in Sweden. Visit us and read more at https://www.hasselforsgarden.se/ (https://www.hasselforsgarden.se/).

Does it sound exciting?

We collaborate with Oak Consulting in this recruitment. If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact HR consultant Maria Roseen at 070-259 05 07.

Selection will take place continuously, so welcome with your application as soon as possible, but no later than June 7th.