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Country Manager - Food Ingredient Manufacturer | HORECA

Job description

Key Responsibilities

  • Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute comprehensive business strategies that align with the global goals while addressing local market dynamics.
  • P&L Responsibility: Oversee the Profit and Loss (P&L) for the Hong Kong operations, ensuring financial targets are met while optimizing costs and maximizing profitability.
  • Sales and Business Development: Drive sales growth by identifying new market opportunities, developing key accounts, and expanding relationships with distributors and F&B partners. Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers and stakeholders.
  • Team Leadership: Recruit, lead, and develop a high-performing cross functional team, fostering a result-oriented and collaborative culture.
  • Financial Oversight and Operational Excellence: Ensure efficient day-to-day operations, including supply chain management, logistics, finance and accounting, HR and administration. Monitor the preparation of budgets, forecast and sales performance reports to ensure an accurate tracking of performance metrics.
  • Cross Geographical and Functional Collaboration: Work closely with other departments, including marketing, product development and manufacturing, as well as with leaders of other markets, to align initiatives and drive cohesive business strategies.

Qualifications

  • Degree holder in Business, Food Science or a related discipline.
  • Minimum 7-10 years of management experience in the food ingredients or related industries, with a strong experience in driving business growth and market development in the Hong Kong market.
  • Strong client network in various HORECA sales channels in Hong Kong.
  • Excellent leadership skills and a proven track record of leading high performing teams to achieve business goals.
  • In-depth understanding of the market and able to identify emerging trends, latest customer reference and competitive landscape for strategy development
  • Result oriented with strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively with different stakeholders.
  • Proficiency in English and Cantonese is required.

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