Consumers everywhere are increasingly conscious of the quality of the food they eat. Puratos develops, produces and distributes a unique range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers who demand the very highest quality.
Founded in Belgium in 1919, Puratos is growing rapidly with over 9000 employees in 75 countries, with a consolidated turnover of over 2 billion in 2019. Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit and core values continue to propel our global ambitions. This, coupled with our commitment to our communities, is what makes working at Puratos so magical.
Position Overview
Based at Gauteng, in order to further strengthen our local Sales team, we are currently seeking a:
TA JUNIOR (BAKERY MANAGER) (Gauteng Branch, South Africa)
Reporting directly to the Sales Manager, the successful candidate for this key function will be responsible for:
- Baking and working closely with the sales team to reach sales target
- Demonstrating finished goods in assigned channels
- Bake all products with excellence
- Train customers bakers on our products
- Present finished goods and sell concept solutions present to a minimum of ten (10) people
- Sleep away from home
- Work with the Sales team to build and grow the business
- Plan and execute daily and weekly bakery production, and implement at store level
- Build relationships with customers
- Give technical advice
- Facilitate and train groups of people (maximum of 25 people) and be able to control them
- Create new innovative products from existing and newly developed products
- Perform under pressure during shows, presentations and store openings
- Present to different calibre of people (management, in-house staff, bakers)
- Calculate, teach and implement costings at store level
- Apply skills by putting recipes together using baker percentages
- Grade 12;
- Drivers License;
- Experience: Minimum of eight (8) years as a baker and confectioner, of which at least 3 years in a supervisory role (managerial role advantageous); B2B is an advantage; food sector (FMCG market) is an advantage;
- Languages: English is a prerequisite; additional language(s) an advantage;
- Computer literacy: Office computer (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word);
- Other expertise: Business & result driven, basic mathematics, strong presentation skills, strong interpersonal skills, team player, creative, innovative.
- Collaborating effectively: spontaneously helps team members, networking, sharing information/results.
- Communicating effectively: actively listening, reporting, provides clear explanations that are easy to follow.
- Driving performances: results-driven, persistent, planning & prioritizing, solving problems
- Training acilitating effectively: facilitation skills, flexible, strong presentation skills, grounded, openness, persistent.
- Improving continuously: adapts flexibly to changes, open to learn from feedback
- Managing customer needs: understanding customer environment, builds and maintains relationship of customers, implement most suitable solutions that meet customer expectations.
Puratos provides a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment that encourages our people to take initiatives and bring ideas that will contribute to the success of the company. Of course, Puratos offers a competitive package (salary, and market related benefits) but additionally, offers you a position that you can further develop and shape.
Interested internal employees who meet the requirements may apply on SuccessFactors:
https://performancemanager5.successfactors.eu/login?company=C0000032578P&loginMethod=PWD
Steps to apply:
- Click on attached link to access SuccessFactors.
- Enter your Username and Password.
- Click on Home and select Careers.
- Select South Africa for Country to filter only for South African jobs that have been advertised.
www.chipkinspuratos.co.za
Closing Date: 09 March 2023
