[Hiring] Manager, Commercial, Private Label @Ingredion Incorporated

Role Description

As Manager (m/f/d), Commercial, Private Label, you will build Ingredion's relationships with Europe's leading retailers and connect them with their co-manufacturers and our sales teams to turn ideas into products. This is a strategic commercial role without a personal sales quota: you will define Ingredion's retailer partnership strategy and drive long-term, innovation-led growth across the private label channel. As a newly created role, it offers real scope to shape the position and grow with it.

• Shape and deliver Ingredion’s private label growth agenda in Europe, driving the penetration of our Texture & Healthful Solutions portfolio with leading retailers and their manufacturing partners.
• Define and lead Ingredion’s engagement with key retailers across Europe, building trusted, senior-level partnerships with category, private label, R&D and quality leaders.
• Map and orchestrate each retailer’s co-manufacturer ecosystem – connecting retailers, co-manufacturers and Ingredion’s sales teams to convert opportunities into business growth.
• Translate retailer insights and trends such as sugar reduction, fibre enrichment and clean label into solutions from our Texture & Healthful Solutions portfolio, partnering with technical, innovation and marketing teams on concepts, prototypes and demonstrations.
• Initiate and steer retailer-led innovation projects from idea to launch, ensuring briefs are validated and projects move through the pipeline with the right partners.
• Lead Ingredion’s presence in the European private label community, including industry events such as PLMA, and build partnerships with contract manufacturers and product development companies.
• Own the retailer-linked innovation pipeline – measure impact, keep Salesforce data accurate and report progress to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Significant commercial experience in the food and beverage industry, working for a retailer and/or a private label manufacturer – ideally both.
• Experience in solution-forward commercial roles such as category management, business development or customer development.
• An established network across category management, R&D/innovation and culinary teams at major private label retailers and manufacturers.
• Strong strategic and commercial insight, with a track record of shaping and executing long-term strategies, delivering key projects and driving growth by inspiring and influencing stakeholders across a matrix organisation.
• Proven ability to build relationships at senior level; C-suite exposure is a plus.
• Bachelor’s degree, ideally in business, food science or culinary arts.
• Fluent English; French and/or German are a plus.

Requirements

• Strategic – You anticipate market changes and set clear priorities.
• Customer-centric – You understand and shape retailer needs and build deep, trusted relationships.
• Results-driven – You turn strategy into measurable commercial outcomes.
• Entrepreneurial and curious – You proactively seek out and grow your retailer network.
• Culturally aware and mobile – You work confidently across Europe and travel regularly to customers and Ingredion sites.
• Builder – You enjoy shaping something new rather than running an established territory.

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements that support your professional and personal life.
• A competitive total rewards package, including salary, annual performance-based incentive and a company pension plan.
• Comprehensive benefits and well-being support.
• Career growth through learning, training and development opportunities.
• A culture of connection and appreciation, with employee recognition and referral rewards.