Company Description
Job Description
Qualifications
Additional Information
With more than 1,000 passionate professionals located across 6 European offices, we believe our success comes from working together and leveraging our international strengths. Expect a hybrid work setup: 60% in-office, 40% remote, collaborating with colleagues across locations.
Our benefits:
20% discount in our zooplus shop
Internal and external training
Team events
#LI-Hybrid
✈️ 28 Annual Vacation Days
Private Medical Health Insurance
More than 20 years ago, zooplus was one of the first to bring the pet category into the world of eCommerce. Today, we stand strong as Europe’s leading online pet platform, delivering moments of happiness to more than 9 million pet parents each year.
We're on a mission to create joy for pets and their parents, driven by our core values of Care, Courage, Openness, and Simplicity. At the heart of everything we do, they inspire us to grow, raise the bar for our customers and fuel a pet-first business.
Job Description
- Assess nutritional, digestibility, and palatability aspects of pet food ingredients, understanding their impact on organoleptic parameters and cost.
- Complete and manage product briefings and specification sheets for accurate pricing and pre-production samples. Communicate specifications to suppliers, manufacturers, and buying office.
- Monitor production timelines, quality, and customer satisfaction, taking appropriate actions and communicating with stakeholders as needed.
- Approve development samples and main production, considering EU consumer-rights policies and marketing claims.
- Collaborate with suppliers and internal teams to optimise product costs and achieve margin growth targets.
- Analyse top-selling products, flavours, and trends, demonstrating a clear understanding of own brands within the category of expertise.
- Support cross-functional projects, including quality assurance, customer care, and innovation initiatives.
- Manage qualitative issues in cooperation with suppliers, ensuring product safety, marketability, and accurate labelling.
- Direct and clarify testing needs for items/ranges, liaising with internal and external stakeholders for execution.
Qualifications
- University degree in Agricultural Engineering, Life Sciences, Nutrition or a related field.
- Nice-to-have: specialization in Animal Nutrition (Masters, Diplomma or related courses)
- Previous work experience in a similar role, preferably in the retail sector.
- Strong knowledge of feed norms plus EU manufacturing & labelling guidelines for pet food
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to work effectively in a team and communicate well
- Proactive with strong problem-solving skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, Sharepoint and Copilot
- Proficiency in English - a C1 level is essential.
Additional Information
With more than 1,000 passionate professionals located across 6 European offices, we believe our success comes from working together and leveraging our international strengths. Expect a hybrid work setup: 60% in-office, 40% remote, collaborating with colleagues across locations.
Our benefits:
20% discount in our zooplus shop
Internal and external training
Team events
#LI-Hybrid
✈️ 28 Annual Vacation Days
Private Medical Health Insurance
- Hybrid working model (up to 40%Home Office per month)
zooplus is committed to equal opportunity. We value and embrace diversity and inclusion of all Team Members.
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