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Do you have a commercial interest, an interest in food, and 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.

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.

The Role Involves

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 meet consumers' needs and be the obvious choice for them.

You have a clear focus on the profitability, quality, and development of the products. The work involves a lot of numbers and analyses, 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 report to our Head of Product Management Bread.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

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

• work with analyzing the development, profitability, and potential of the product portfolio
• 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 decision-making
• 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 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 degree in fields such as economics, engineering, food science, 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-driving. 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 taste tests 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 taste testing is required – but we believe that you, just like us, have a genuine love for freshly baked products.

Pågen is a family-owned company 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, making collaboration, responsibility, and fast solution-focused decisions a natural part of the work. We meet and work together at the office every day.

Apply!

In this assignment, we collaborate with the recruitment agency ComCube. Please include, in your application, a CV and a cover letter in Swedish 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 regarding the recruitment process or the position, you are very welcome to contact Helena Heijmink, 070-554 03 42, [email protected] or Helena Fransson, 070-554 05 04, who help us in this assignment. You apply for the position by clicking the "Apply for the job" button.

Note that we work with continuous selection. We only accept applications via the application link. Warmly welcome with your application!

About Pågen

At Pågen, we bake with love – it is about having care for raw materials and products, employees, consumers, and our shared resources. Pågen is a fifth-generation family business that has been baking bread since 1878. With two bakeries where skilled bakers bake day and night, and with Sweden's largest sales force, Pågen supplies both export markets and the country's stores with fresh bread every day. As a leading bakery with products like packaged fresh bread, yeast coffee bread, crispbread, as well as sausage and hamburger buns, we are now taking the step into the future and building Europe's most modern bakery. More information about Pågen can be found at https://pagen.se (https://pagen.se).

Employment Type: Permanent.