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Would you like to be greeted by the scent of freshly baked bread when you step into the office? At Pågen, we bake with love, using flour from our own mill, carefully selected ingredients, and great care for our products, employees, and consumers.

We are looking for a Junior Product Manager with a couple of years of work experience and some form of project management experience. This is a great opportunity for you who want to make a difference and join a company where you can grow and develop.

Do you have a commercial interest, are you interested in food, and do you have a good technical understanding? Then this is the role for you! As a Junior Product Manager, you will drive various projects within innovation and the development of the existing portfolio. At our company, the Pågen spirit lives in everyday life – we help each other, take responsibility, and welcome you if you have the will and passion to challenge us and make a difference.

The Role

As a Junior Product Manager, you will become part of Pågen's Product Management, responsible for the product portfolio. This is a commercial and analytical product role where numbers, business understanding, and product quality are at the center. You will work in close collaboration with product development, production, marketing, sales, and other parts of the organization. The position is broad with many contact points, and you will have the opportunity to be involved in projects that both develop existing products and drive innovation forward. To succeed in the role, you need to be communicative and team-oriented, with the ability to create engagement and build strong collaborations both within and outside the team.

With a sense for taste and the bakery literally in the house, you will contribute to making our portfolio a little better every day and drive innovation projects. “Can an ingredient be swapped so that the bread becomes both tastier and more cost-effective?” is a question you may ask yourself. You will work with consumer tests, which is important work to be able to meet consumers' needs and be the obvious choice for consumers.

You have a clear focus on the products' profitability, quality, and development. The work involves a lot of numbers and analysis, always with a commercial perspective. It may involve tracking how a product performs, analyzing costs, understanding consumer insights, and contributing to decisions that make the product portfolio even stronger.

You will report to our Head of Product Management Bread.

Main Responsibilities

As a Junior Product Manager, you will among other things:

• work with analysis of the product portfolio's development, profitability, and potential
• lead innovation projects and improvements of existing products
• participate in projects related to product changes
• work with consumer tests and use insights to develop the assortment
• collaborate closely with product development, production, sales, marketing, and purchasing
• contribute with materials, analyses, and recommendations for decisions
• ensure that products are developed with the right balance between taste, quality, cost, and commercial potential

Who are you?

We are looking for you who have worked for a couple of years and want to take the next step in a role where you get to combine analysis, business, and product development. You might, for example, have a background as an agronomist, civil engineer, or economist. The most important thing is that you have an interest in food and a desire to understand what makes a product appreciated by the consumer and profitable for the business.

We believe you have:

• a university education in areas such as economics, technology, food, agronomy, or similar
• a couple of years of relevant work experience, preferably within consumer products and fresh goods
• experience working in projects or driving smaller projects forward
• good analytical skills and an interest in numbers, key figures, and profitability
• commercial understanding and interest in how products create value in the market
• interest in food, taste, quality, and consumer behavior
• good technical understanding and ease in getting into product-related issues
• very good knowledge of Swedish and English, both spoken and written
• experience with Nielsen Data is a plus.

As a person, you are curious, structured, and forward-moving. You have your own drive and enjoy taking responsibility while thriving in collaboration with others and having an easy time engaging and involving your surroundings. You are comfortable switching between details and the big picture and like when analysis leads to concrete decisions and improvements.

Good to know

The position is a permanent full-time employment located at Pågen's headquarters in Malmö. Travel occurs to a lesser extent, primarily to the Gothenburg bakery.

As a natural part of the role, you participate in tastings of both new product ideas and the existing assortment. Contributing to the development of products that end up on breakfast tables and coffee breaks around the country is an inspiring part of the job. No special prior knowledge in tasting is required – but we believe that you, just like us, have a genuine love for freshly baked products.

Pågen is a family business with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and short decision-making paths. Here, everyday life is eventful and the pace is high. What is baked at night is delivered the very next day, which means that collaboration, responsibility, and fast solution-focused decisions are a natural part of the work. We meet and work together at the office every day.

You will become part of an experienced and engaged team with a large collective competence where there is much to learn and good opportunities to develop.

Apply!

In this assignment, we collaborate with ComCube. Include in your application, a CV and a cover letter in English answering:

• Why are you interested in the position of Junior Product Manager at Pågen?
• What do you believe you can contribute most as a Junior Product Manager?

If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact Helena Heijmink, 070-554 03 42, [email protected] or Helena Fransson, 070-554 05 04 who help us in this assignment.

We work with ongoing selection. We only receive applications via: https://comcube.varbi.com/se/what:login/jobID:945090/type:job/apply:1/ (https://comcube.varbi.com/se/what:login/jobID:945090/type:job/apply:1/)

Welcome and read about Pågen at https://www.pagen.se (https://www.pagen.se)