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Are you ready to take full business responsibility and drive a portfolio focused on profitable growth? Do you want to work close to the business, make data-driven decisions, and influence the direction of well-known products on the Swedish market? As a Portfolio & Brand Manager here, you will have a central role where you both set the strategy and ensure it becomes reality. You will become a key player in our B2C operations, with a large mandate to prioritize correctly, challenge the status quo, and create a strong, relevant, and competitive portfolio for the future.

What you will do

In the role of Portfolio & Brand Manager, you are responsible for defining, developing, and driving category and portfolio strategy from analysis to implementation. You have clear business responsibility and work to ensure that the portfolio remains competitive, profitable, and relevant over time.

You work broadly, focusing on optimizing the portfolio through the right prioritizations, launches, and simplification of the business. You set the direction for assortment, pricing, and long-term development, and make data-driven decisions regarding which initiatives to drive, change, or phase out.

An important part of the role is to analyze the market, consumer, and competition to identify opportunities and risks. You then use these insights to create concrete business plans and activities. You work cross-functionally, close to both sales, production, purchasing, controlling, and activation teams to ensure implementation and results. You act as a link between functions and have regular contact with production through site visits.

The role also includes responsibility for brand strategy and guidelines, where you ensure consistent positioning. This is a role for you who wants to combine strategy and operational work, from business cases and pricing strategy to launches, design updates, and adaptations to new regulations.

You are part of the leadership group for Business to Consumer in Sweden and report to Elin Stoij - Business Director B2C at Lantmännen Cerealia. The position is located at Lantmännen's headquarters in Stadshagen, Stockholm.

What you need to succeed and thrive

You have:

• Experience in portfolio, category, or brand management within FMCG
• Experience working in a data-driven manner and turning insights into business decisions
• Good understanding of profitability, pricing, and financial follow-up
• Experience with the Swedish grocery retail industry
• Fluent Swedish and good knowledge of English

You are:

• Result-oriented and motivated by creating concrete business results
• Independent and confident in driving initiatives from analysis to implementation
• Relationship-building and skilled at getting different functions in the organization on board
• Analytical with a strong ability to turn insights into solutions
• Structured and good at prioritizing in a broad and dynamic role

You share our values – Openness, Holistic View, Drive – and our promise to take responsibility from farm to table.

What we offer you

Lantmännen is a large international group with a unique breadth in our operations. This means we can offer development opportunities with varying focus for both specialists and generalists within different companies and industries in more than 20 countries. We work actively with internal mobility and want to contribute to employees developing and feeling engaged every day. Together we reimagine the world of grain!

Does this sound interesting? We hope so! You apply for the position online, preferably as soon as possible but no later than July 31st. In your application, you have the opportunity to add your CV or LinkedIn profile. For a more objective and inclusive recruitment process, we do not accept cover letters but instead ask you to answer selection questions relevant to the position. The recruitment process includes both psychometric tests and competency-based interviews, with the aim of promoting fair evaluation for all candidates. At Lantmännen, it is important that everyone has equal opportunities for employment and development within the group. As a final candidate, a background check will be conducted via an external provider. If you have questions regarding the position or the recruitment process, you are warmly welcome to contact Talent Acquisition Specialist, Julia Labbart, at [email protected]. We look forward to your application!

Lantmännen Cerealia is part of Lantmännen, an agricultural cooperative and Northern Europe's leading actor in agriculture, bioenergy, and food. The company is owned by 17,000 Swedish farmers, has more than 10,000 employees, operations in about twenty countries, and generates 60 billion SEK in annual revenue. Based on grain, the resources of arable land are processed for a viable agriculture. Some of Lantmännen's most well-known food brands are AXA, Kungsörnen, Scan, Korvbrödsbagarn, GoGreen, FINN CRISP, and Bonjour. The company is founded on knowledge and values that have existed for generations among the owners. Through research, development, and operations throughout the value chain, Lantmännen takes responsibility from farm to table. More about Lantmännen (#)

Lantmännen Cerealia develops, manufactures, and markets a wide range of healthy, nutritious, and sustainable foods, originating from local arable lands. We are active in categories such as flour, oatmeal, breakfast products, pasta, pancakes, crispbread, and a wide green assortment. Some of our most well-known brands are AXA, Kungsörnen, START!, GoGreen, and FINN CRISP. We manufacture food in twelve locations in the Nordic region as well as in Ukraine, and our 1,200 employees share a common goal – to make a positive difference in food. With a focus on the business and care for employees, we offer our staff the opportunity to learn and develop in a fast-changing, positive environment where openness, holistic view, and drive are our common reference points. We believe that our culture, combined with engaging leadership and the right attitude, enables us to achieve strong and sustainable results together. More about Lantmännen Cerealia (#)