Are you looking for a new challenge in the Food & Drink sector?
Do you want to make a difference, do you enjoy taking responsibility and therefore like working in a small team?
Do you have sales and marketing experience?
Then you've come to the right place.
Prepared Consumer Foods (PCF) Executive
Dublin
Reports To: PCF Senior Manager
Grade: 5
Salary Scale: €50,342 - €69,069
Purpose
Bord Bia has a vision that customers around the globe recognise that Irish food and drink is world-class; that it is high quality, distinctive, and made by a diverse range of creative producers from a unique and fortuitous island location. Our purpose is to bring Ireland’s outstanding food, drink and horticulture to the world, thus enabling growth and sustainability of producers.
In this role, you will implement the Bord Bia PCF plans, by building client relationships that are credible and valued, developing a holistic understanding of the business needs, and influencing internally to deliver the necessary support.
What you’ll do
1. Provide project support to the PCF team as directed by the Senior PCF Manager and client support to our client base as per segmentation, by proactive engagement and liaison through various means, virtual meetings, onsite visits and emails.
2. Develop a deep understanding of the client business, including identifying key challenges / opportunities facing the business; engaging with clients through formal and regular check-ins; capturing and sharing key actions and outputs with appropriate colleagues on CRM.
3. Use the One Bord Bia client plan template and the client engagement model to co-create an annual plan, including identifying and coordinating the delivery of the appropriate services available to them from across Bord Bia.
4. Support the PCF and Events Activation teams to ensure effective and commercially focused participation at trade fairs for PCF clients through appropriate recruitment, coordinating pre-show supports such as workshops and 1:1 supports, coordinating trade engagement with overseas offices and post-show follow up.
5. Promote the understanding of relevant Bord Bia supports and services with clients and encourage their participation, through to supporting the PCF, GBD and capability teams to deliver relevant supports by ensuring tight clear client informed briefs are captured and managed through to delivery.
6. Support the PCF and Insights team deliver insight and market intelligence projects by ensuring clear briefs, proactive engagement to the project end, inclusive of client engagement as needed and ensuring consumer foods team consulted.
7. Produce high calibre sector commentary for trade media articles, and internal and external briefings through well researched and presented documentation on relevant issues.
8. Implement projects/event and initiatives with consumer food clients as relevant such as Brexit supports, grants, workshops, talent academy.
9. Manage assigned budgets in accordance with One Bord Bia procedures.
10. Embed adherence to the One Bord Bia Operating Model.
About You
Essential Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities
Knowledge:
* Minimum of 3+ years’ experience in a relevant discipline; Marketing, Business Development etc.
* Irish food and drink industry knowledge.
* Retail, manufacturing and foodservice landscape domestic and overseas.
* Commercial functioning of food businesses.
Skills & Capabilities:
* Digital first mindset.
* Comfortable with an agile culture focused on continuous improvement.
* Relationship management.
* Presentation development and delivery.
* Analytical writing skills.
* Project Management.
Desirable Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities
Knowledge:
* Food and drink industry experience.
* Route to market.
Skills & Capabilities:
* Data analysis.
Closing Date/Time: Monday, 17 March 2025 @ 12:00pm (GMT/UTC)
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Bord Bía is an Equal Opportunities Employer: We want to see a society where everyone is equal. We know our foundation must be an equitable workplace that recognises the dignity and worth of everyone and gives all our employees the freedom and opportunity to fulfil their potential.
Bord Bia is committed to ensuring that all recruitment candidates have complete and equitable access as can reasonably be provided. If you require any support or accommodation as part of the recruitment process, please contact us directly at humanresources@bordbia.ie.
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