Food and Pharma Manager

• Responsible for market insight and analysis to get a thorough understanding of the market's trends and  build a market vision.
• Develop and update the market strategies and associated offers to ensure sustained profitable growth while maintaining a competitive advantage.
• Builds a deep understanding of the customer base, including persona definition & its update, identifies the customers' needs in their respective markets and determines potential business opportunities for profitable growth.
• Develop the business case for investment decisions with Business Fundamentals and gas pricing in line with AL investment processes at country and group level.
• Monitoring competitor activity and potential next moves.

• Remains updated with the Market ecosystem (ex regulatory evolutions, innovative breakthroughs, technical and research institutes) and innovations brought through ALTEC, R&D, WBL, & other clusters.
• Develop new offer packages and develop go to market strategies which are rolled out in conjunction with the commercial teams.
• Plan and conduct trials in order to prove the technical feasibility and economic viability of proposed new products/applications/services.
• Supports the sales team with technical visits to priority prospects. 

• Education: University Degree / Master in Engineering/ Business

• At least 6 or more years industry experience
• Demonstrable business acumen
• Investment process experience
• Strong project management skills 
• Business partnering, relationship management and influencing skills
• Good communication skills are essential, particularly in regard to presenting to management and customers
• Ability to deliver through others (Transversally)

• Food and Pharmaceutical and Medgas industry knowledge
• Industry knowledge
• Business development acumen
• Air Liquide business models and approaches

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.