Caldic touches the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every day. We inspire innovative and sustainable solutions for food, pharma, personal care and industrial formulations markets.

Our solutions are backed by outstanding research & development, customer service, and technical & regulatory support, ensuring they meet customer requirements at every stage of the value chain.

We go the extra mile to deliver value-added solutions for our customers. From formulation to delivery, from ingredient to packing, from supplier to customer, we care about every detail of what we do.

Our business is growing, and we are looking for a

CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Your main duties are commercial sales activities, developing and expanding relationships with customers. You set strategies and targets for long term growth, including planning and forecasting segment sales together with the strong backup from Caldic product managers, supply chain, our new product development team and customer care departments. You ensure the product development and sales of the whole Caldic product range and you are also responsible for prices and quotation for your own customer pool. 

In order to be successful in this role you need to be independent, self-motivated and have a true passion for food industry. You are the face of Caldic to the clients, and you like to gain and analyze the complete market insight as well as indicators and trends. You are capable of entering the product development with your customer and feel proud when a new product is launched on the market as a result of great cooperation.

We expect you to have relevant commercial and technical experience from sales or purchasing within the food industry. You need great communication and networking skills, combined with a commercial mindset and entrepreneurial spirit. Understanding our customer’s processes and production is vital in order to add value to their business development. Traveling is part of the job in order to meet clients in Finland and colleagues in the Nordics.
Fluency in  Finnish and English is required to be successful in the role.

We appreciate visions and understanding of food market in Finland. A degree preferably related to food science and/or chemistry is a strong advantage. Above all, we are looking for a customer oriented and result focused team player, who has a curious mind-set and is eager to develop the business together with our clients.

We offer you a challenging and interesting position to gain knowledge, develop yourself whether through our unique Sales Academy or accessing further training opportunities. Our benefits include an inspiring bonus system, car benefit, luncheon and other vouchers, comprehensive health program with dental and other benefits. 

We work flexibly remote with our office in Espoo, Leppävaara as our base. 

Operaria Headhunting & Recruitment, Markus Fabricius will be taking care of the recruitment process, and your application is expected to be registered via the link below before June 7th. If any questions, please contact markus@operaria.fi or on 0400 603327.