Junior Technical Advisor (Bakery Manager) - East London at Puratos

Reporting directly to the Sales Manager, the successful candidate for this key function will be responsible for:

• Baking and demonstrating finished goods in assigned channels and teach on how to use the Company’s products.
• Working closely with the sales team to reach Sales target
• To coach and mentor new recruits and all the colleagues within the department

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Bake all products with excellence
• Train customer bakers on the Company’s products
• Present finished goods – to a minimum of ten people – and sell concept solutions
• Work with the sales team to build and grow the business.
• Plan and execute daily and weekly bakery production, and implement thereof 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 and facilitate the group(s)
• 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 percentage
• Perform other duties as per operational requirements

PROFILE

• Grade 12 (Matric)
• Minimum of 8 years as a baker and confectioner, of which at least 3 years was in a supervisory role (managerial role advantageous); B2B is an advantage; food sector (FMCG market) is an advantage.
• Experience leading leaders, providing coaching, developing talent, and building a high-performance team
• Computer literacy: MS Office suite (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
• Knowledge of basic arithmetic – must be able to calculate, teach and implement costings at store level, and apply skills
• Over and above normal working hours, occasional overtime is required
• Sleep away from home
• Experience in growing a business
• Culture awareness and experience of diversity
• Business fluent in English (written & verbal)

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• Finds and implements creative and innovative solutions for business challenges
• Develops and shares strategic business and market insights and translates these into solutions for the business
• Promotes our company culture within the wider organization. Facilitates the understanding of the organizational structure and proactively connects key stakeholders