Product Manager

**Posting Period**
- From September 22, 2025
to November 03, 2025

**Country or region**
- France

**Location**
- Blagnac, Midi-Pyrénées

**Business Unit**
- Specialty Cultures

**Department**
- Research and Development

**Entry date**
- As soon as possible

**Job Status**
- Permanent - Full time

**Minimal required work experience**
- 3 years

**Minimal education level required**
- Level 5 (BAC+2)

**Work schedule**
- Day package

**Salary**
- To be determined

**Benefits**
- Competitive social benefits

**PRODUCT MANAGER - MEAT**:
**MAIN FUNCTIONS**:
Reporting to the Category Manager, the Product Manager is responsible for managing the lifecycle of LSC's meat crop portfolio, from product design and development to market launch and post-launch monitoring.

This position involves working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure successful product development and marketing.

PRODUCT DEFINITION AND LAUNCH
- Contribute to the product development strategy in collaboration with the sales, R&D and production teams
- Define product positioning (price, image, value proposition)
- Define and supervise the creation of products and packaging with the production and quality teams
- Document products and promote R&D data in sales and customer presentations
- Define a communication plan and create marketing tools in conjunction with the Marketing Manager

SUPPORT TECHNIQUE CLIENT
- Provide technical and scientific support to sales teams, and occasionally participate in customer visits
- Identify customer needs/expectations and translate them into internal actions
- Supervise and monitor customer trials with the sales team

PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
- Monitor and analyze sales performance and customer feedback in conjunction with sales teams
- Monitor market trends and competing offerings to adapt product development strategy
- Contribute to the definition of marketing actions in line with the business development strategy
- Translate and adapt product materials according to markets, customer needs and geographical areas
- Participate in conferences, seminars and trade fairs, and occasionally speak as a speaker
- Write articles for industry trade magazines

RELATIONSHIP WITH INTERNAL R&D / EXTERNAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTES
- Participate in the definition and prioritization of the R&D plan for the meat crop portfolio
- Facilitate the creation of product documentation by transforming R&D data into customer/user-oriented messages
- Act as a liaison between customers, sales teams and R&D to respond to technical requests

Participation in the establishment and monitoring of the budget and profitability of the meat product category.

**TECHNICAL SKILLS**:
**Required**
- Autonomy, adaptability and confidence
- Technical and synthesis skills, with attention to detail
- Orientation business
- Enthusiastic and dynamic team spirit
- Excellent organizational and communication skills
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary and international team

**PERSONAL ABILITIES**:
**Required**
- Master's degree (Bac +5) in food science, biotechnology or biochemistry
- Strong interest or experience in technical marketing or product portfolio management
- Fluency in English (oral and written)

**GENERAL CRITERIA**:
**Required**
- Position ideally based at one of the main LSC sites in France: La Ferté-sous-Jouarre (77), Rennes (35) or Blagnac (31)
- Teleworking possible
- Travel up to 30%, mainly in Europe and America

**ORGANIZATION**:
Lallemand is a privately held Canadian company founded in the late 19th century, which develops, produces, and markets microorganisms for various markets. The administrative offices of the parent company are in Montreal, Canada. Today, Lallemand employs more than 5,000 people working in more than 45 countries on 5 continents.
- Please take note that accommodations will be provided in all parts of the hiring process. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance._