Commercial Excellence Manager

FrieslandCampina

Düsseldorf, DEonsitePosted Mar 7, 2026
Posting intelligenceMay be filled, listed long agoReposted 68×, possible evergreen/ghost posting

Skills

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About the role

Beschrijving van de vacature

Functietitel: Commercial Excellence Manager

Vacaturelocatie (kort): Düsseldorf, DEU, 40235

Discipline: Sales & Marketing

Career Site Contract Hours: 32-40

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Koptekst voor beschrijving van de vacature:

FrieslandCampina is one of the largest dairy companies in the world with over 150 years of co-operative tradition. The company processes milk from dairy farms into a wide range of dairy products and milk-based ingredients. FrieslandCampina supplies hundreds of millions of people worldwide with valuable nutrients from milk every day.

FrieslandCampina supplies consumers with dairy products such as milk, yoghurt, condensed milk, dairy drinks, cheese, butter, quark and cream. For professional users in the bakery, confectionery, chocolaterie, kitchen and catering sectors, FrieslandCampina offers a wide range of products, including cream, butter, desserts and fillings. The company also supplies high-quality ingredients to international food manufacturers and the pharmaceutical industry.

Approximately 10,000 member dairy farms in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium supply over 9.5 billion kilograms of milk for processing into dairy products and ingredients. FrieslandCampina has branches in 31 countries and exports to over a hundred countries worldwide. On average, FrieslandCampina employs more than 21,500 people. In Germany, FrieslandCampina Germany GmbH has a head office in Düsseldorf with the functional units Sales, Marketing, Finance, Customer Supply Chain and General Management. For further information please visit: www.frieslandcampina.com

Beschrijving van de vacature:

What we ask:

At least 5-7 years, within in Finance, Commerce or Continuous improvement preferably in dairy;

Highly proficient in spoken & written English and German languages;

Proactive, result-oriented and data driven mentality;

Dare to challenge and eager to learn self starter

Master degree in (International) Business, Finance or Supply Chain;

Strong analytical skills, strong social skills, recent proven track record in change management, data drive improvement initiatives

Excellent social, analytical and influencing skills;

Proficient knowledge of Power BI, MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook);

What we offer:

Unique company culture of Dutch heritage and international presence

We offer great work life balance, and competitive salary & benefits package so you can enjoy it

Flexible working hours and the ability to work from home

Diverse training and mentoring programs to help you grow on your own professional journey

Exceptional support of cross disciplinary movement within the company to broaden your knowledge and growth paths

A friendly and informal working environment, yet professional team members as sparring partners

Autonomy and trust to create longer term impact that helps bring better nutrition to the world

Benefits such as free parking, subsidies for public transport, free products for consumption in our social area

Job Purpose:

Every day, we strive in our Germany Operating company to improve our commercial and financial performance and process. The manager Commercial Excellence is pivotal to ensure that we install rigors commercial drumbeat that ensures continuous improvement in our commercial execution and maximizes value capturing in the market for the short and long term.

Our Purpose:

FrieslandCampina Germany is our dedicated Opco for Hard Discount and Traditional Retail, focusing on all German retailers like Lidl, Aldi, Edeka and Rewe. We are known for our brands Frico, Frau Antje, Chocomel and Valess, but we also offer several Private Label products to our German retail customers across Europe. Products like Cheese, Milk, Drinking Yoghurt, Chocolate Milk, Cream, and many others are sold to our customer to help them to deliver the highest quality to their consumer.

You will be working in a friendly environment with a flat hierarchy, where we like to work hard and deliver, but fun is an important element in our job too. Our office has an open and pleasant atmosphere, which makes you feel part of a big family. Personal and professional development is embedded in our DNA.

This is how your job looks like in a nutshell:

Continuously improving our Tender process and coordinating the Global Hard discount Tender and German Tender, responsible to manage and oversee all tenders running in our German OpCo;

Develop and execute weekly commercial drumbeat meeting that ensures full oversight on key commercial KPI’s and enables all parties involved in the sales process to improve performance with a fact based approach

SPOC BG regarding Commercial Execution

SPOC to supply Chain for Capacity Allocation

Responsible for “one voice” to the market and facilitating Sales with key commodity market and competitive insights (production capabilities, market scarcity, over capacity)

Develop new commercial tools that enable sales to act better and faster in the market such as but not limited to Promo pricing and promo way of working; sustainability maturity models

Connection to other BG’s and OpCo’s for insights and aligned market approach for PL and Branded to maximize milk valorization.

Leading End2End cost optimization initiatives

Leading Strategy into Action process

Voettekst voor beschrijving van de vacature:

The right profile to work for Friesland Campina? There's no golden rule on that. We're always looking for a good combination of everything – a perfect mix of different characters. The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

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Waarom jij bij ons wilt werken:

Een inspirerend doel

Betere voeding voor de wereld en een goed inkomen voor onze boeren, nu en voor toekomstige generaties.

Een coöperatieve cultuur

Gekenmerkt door wereldwijde samenwerking, respect en gedeeld succes.

Een tastbare impact

Ruimte voor jouw ambitie, met autonomie en een duidelijke focus.

Jouw groei is onze groei

We investeren in jouw persoonlijke en professionele ontwikkeling via trainingen en opleidingen.

Heb je vragen?

Neem gerust contact op met onze recruiter

careers@frieslandcampina.com

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