Manager Marketing & Communication

Job Description:

Nutreco is a member of the SHV family committed to Feeding the Future through sustainable and innovative practices. Nutreco operates through two business lines: Skretting a global leader in aquafeed solutions and Trouw Nutrition specializing in animal nutrition and livestock productivity.

Within Global Marketing branding plays a critical role in ensuring clarity consistency and impact across all customer touchpoints worldwide. As part of our Global Marketing team you will play a key role in translating business priorities into impactful marketing communications that strengthen our brand support commercial growth and engage customers worldwide.

About The Role:

As Marketing & Communication Manager you will lead the development and execution of marketing communication initiatives that clearly articulate Trouw Nutritions value propositions and support business objectives.

You will work closely with species category commercial innovation and regional teams to translate business needs into a strong communication strategy and build effective communication plans campaigns and customer-facing materials. You will be responsible for ensuring that communication activities are aligned with business priorities customer needs and brand standards while maintaining a high level of quality and execution excellence.

This role requires a proactive and commercially minded professional who can effectively manage stakeholders challenge unclear requests guide teams in ambiguity and drive projects from concept through delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

Marketing Communication Leadership

• Develop marketing communication strategy and execute plans aligned with agreed business and marketing priorities.
• Translate business priorities into clear communication frameworks campaigns and activation plans.
• Define communication objectives messaging approaches channel strategies and success measures for key initiatives.
• Ensure consistency of messaging and customer experience across communication channels working closely with branding digital marketing and business teams.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen brand visibility thought leadership and customer engagement.
• Translate complex technical scientific and commercial topics into clear and compelling customer-focused communications.

Stakeholder Management

• Partner with species category commercial innovation and regional teams to understand business priorities and translate them into effective communication strategies and plans.
• Challenge and refine requests to ensure clarity of objectives target audience value proposition and expected outcomes.
• Facilitate alignment across multiple stakeholders and functions particularly in complex or ambiguous situations.
• Coordinate cross-functional contributors and manage delivery against agreed priorities timelines and quality standards.

People Management

Lead coach and develop a high-performing Marketing & Communications team.

Establish clear priorities responsibilities and success measures for team members.

Build effective communication processes governance structures and quality standards to improve efficiency and consistency.

Foster a culture of ownership collaboration accountability and continuous improvement.

Performance & continuous improvement

• Track and evaluate campaign and communication performance using agreed KPIs.
• Use insights and feedback to improve effectiveness efficiency and business impact.
• Leverage customer market and campaign insights to continuously enhance communication impact and business value

What Were Looking For:

• Background in Marketing Communications Business or a related field.
• Min. 8-10 years of experience in marketing communications or a related marketing role.
• Proven experience developing and executing communication strategy planning campaigns and customer-facing content.
• Experience working in a complex cross-functional or matrix organisation.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to translate technical or scientific information into customer-relevant messaging.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Excellent project management and organisational capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of business objectives.
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Experience in managing diverse team members.
• Experience with marketing automation CRM sales enablement and content management platforms is preferred.

Expectations of the Role

The Marketing & Communication Manager is expected to:

• Act as a strategic communication partner to business stakeholders.
• Create clarity and direction in situations where objectives priorities or requirements are not fully defined.
• Translate complex business challenges into structured communication strategies and actionable plans.
• Balance stakeholder needs with business priorities available resources and expected impact.
• Build trusted relationships while constructively challenging assumptions and requests when required.
• Drive execution excellence through clear planning governance accountability and follow-through.
• Develop a high-performing team and foster a culture of ownership collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Maintain high standards of quality professionalism and customer focus across all communication activities.

Why Join Us
As part of Nutreco and the SHV family youll benefit from:

• Global career opportunities.
• A collaborative and inclusive culture.
• Professional development and continuous learning opportunities.
• The opportunity to lead meaningful work that contributes to Feeding the Future.

Join us and help transform strategy into market impact. Own your marketing legacy. Own it.

#trouwnutrition #ownit

Our organisation:
Nutreco is a global leader in animal nutrition and fish feed. Our advanced nutritional solutions are at the origin of food for millions of consumers worldwide. Quality innovation and sustainability are guiding principles embedded in the Nutreco culture from research and raw material procurement to products and services for agriculture and aquaculture. Experience across 100 years brings Nutreco a rich heritage of knowledge and experience for building its future.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Nutreco is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race color religious creed sex national origin citizenship status age physical or mental disability sexual orientation marital parental military status or any other status protected by applicable local law. Please advise us at any point during the recruitment and selection process if you require accommodation. Nutreco is committed to compliance with all applicable legislation including providing accommodation for applicants with disabilities.

Required Experience:

Manager

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1