European Marketing Manager – Yakult Europe

European Marketing Manager - Yakult Europe - WerfSelect

European Marketing Manager – Yakult Europe

European Marketing Manager – Yakult Europe

Are you ready for a broad, international leadership role in marketing with a powerful, iconic

brand? Are you looking for a position where your extensive experience in FMCG and your

talent for connecting, convincing, and inspiring are fully leveraged? Let’s talk.

In this overarching marketing position, you help bring the vision ‘One Yakult’ to life. You drive

effective marketing strategies across Yakult’s European countries, ensuring they all align with

one shared commercial ambition. This is a broad, international leadership role that touches

every aspect of the marketing profession.

Success means your team leads with strategy in all countries, not just offering support. You

initiate new ideas that gain buy-in across local teams and significantly contribute to Yakult’s

You achieve this by sharing successes and actively engaging with local managers. While you

lead the central team based in the Netherlands, you also involve marketers across borders.

You lead based on expertise, because you know that’s what it takes to create one Yakult.

Full ownership of the marketing policy from A to Z — including branding, product

Translating strategy into impactful activities that drive Yakult Group Europe’s

Leading your team with vision and energy.

Collaborating with various departments: Sales, Marketing, Science, PR, Regulatory,

Acting as a sparring partner for local MDs and Marketing Managers, helping them

create initiatives that contribute to Yakult’s growth in their respective markets.

Strengthening and safeguarding the brand across Europe.

Creating shared ambition is your strength. You inspire, persuade, and bring people

with you. You are a brand builder and strategic marketer with a clear vision. You have a

proven track record and insights that go beyond marketing alone — you connect the

dots across departments and help the entire organisation move forward.

You’re persuasive through smart insights and real examples, and you listen just as

You’re a team player and a people manager. You’re a strong communicator with a

You’re skilled in coaching and developing (junior) professionals.

You honour existing culture and beliefs, but you also bring fresh perspectives and

take initiative that naturally contributes to success.

You bring substantial experience with consumer brands. Ideally, you’re familiar with

You’re digitally savvy and understand new technologies, channels, and marketing

intelligence (research, data analysis, reporting). You don’t have to be an expert in

everything, but you are capable of forming clear, well-founded opinions.

You have at least 10 years of relevant FMCG experience, preferably in food.

Ideally, your experience also includes sales and trade marketing.

You communicate easily in English, both verbally and in writing. Dutch is a plus, but not required.

In addition to a unique and strategic role, Yakult offers a competitive benefits package,

including an annual bonus. European travel is part of the job. While this is a full-time position,

Yakult Europe B.V. is located in Almere and has served as the European headquarters and

Every day, over 40 million people in 40 countries drink Yakult. It’s a key part of a healthy

lifestyle — even top athletes drink it daily. The company’s philosophy, ‘Working on a healthy

society’, was born 90 years ago when Dr. Minoru Shirota launched the first bottle of probiotic

Yakult is currently available in thirteen European countries and has six local sales and

marketing organisations (Belgium, Germany, Austria, the UK, Italy, and the Netherlands).

This vacancy is exclusively managed by WerfSelect . Interested? Contact Marja van Velzen,

senior recruiter, via [staat bij de werkgever] or [staat bij de werkgever].

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