Clover has been recognised for its excellence in its products, brands, human resources, social responsibility, finance, and environmental affairs, and we pride ourselves on building an inclusive, diverse workforce that makes every aspect of Clover, Way Better. Our success lies in its people and the dedication that they bring to the Clover business. At Clo...
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Job Advert Summary
- Clover is looking for a Manager: Business Development to investigate via different channels to find partners to expand food operations in the South and Sub-Saharan Africa region and establish new and maintain ongoing potential partner relations.
Requirements
- Honor's degree
- Relevant experience in applying job related concepts, techniques and processes at the required level
- Experience in working with senior management
- People management experience
- Business English: Fluent
- Computer literacy (Advanced)
- Code 08 Driver's license
- Travel off-site/ overnight stay
- Work shifts/weekends/public holidays
Competencies
- Coach and develop people
- Ability to influence
- Proactive and action orientated
- Solves problems through effective decision making.
- Clear and sound reasoning ability
- Maintains high standards
- Build high performing teams
- Business acumen
- Lead and drive change for improvement
- Interpersonal effectiveness
- Managing people for performance
- Commitment and motivation
- Administrative capabilities
- Thinking and reasoning logically
- Customer orientated
- Communicates effectively
- Application of financial principles and practices
- Ability to plan and organize
Duties and Responsibilities
Establish and identify new business relations
- Ensure effective business relations are established and a point of interest is initiated
- Prepare post meeting summary and business analysis/due diligence and establish if further discussions are necessary and present to business project team
- Provide information required for financial analysis and business case from potential partner
- Maintain ongoing relations and communication with unsuccessful potential partners to ensure possible change in interest
- Maintain relationship until completed and successful transition
Investigate different channels to find partners to expand food operations in South and Sub-Saharan Africa
- Conduct technical due diligence exercises
- Evaluate potential Co-Packers and/or joint ventures
- Ensure reliability, right cost and quality
- Ensure legal compliance
Manage projects in new countries
- Draw up a master plan for the proposed project
- Prepare the estimated cost to apply for required CAPEX in terms of Production and Supply Chain
- Nominate members for the project team
- Report regularly on project progress
- Submit final proposal for approval
- Do tracking to meet with set due dates
- Provide support to ensure successful transition to either Co-Packer management or Clover integration
Investigate the current internal market to establish potential
- Evaluate suitable partners to meet Clover standards
- Ensure acceptable quality, equipment and service levels
- Evaluate the potential for production capacity
- Liaise with internal team members
- Determine and motivate delivery potential on required products
Report on assignments
- Give ongoing feedback on progress and barriers
- Ensure progress and provide accurate information to Management
Manage staff
- Ensure optimal utilisation of staff
- Apply consistent discipline
- Train and develop staff
- Conduct warehouse meetings and ensure effective communication to all
- Liaise and communicate with management in all departments
- Set objectives, manage and measure performance of subordinates
Deadline:22nd January,2026
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Job Advert Summary
- Clover is looking for Research & Deveopment Specialist: Formulation to coordinate product formulation and render technical advice. This position will be based at Clover -Clayville branch in Olifantsfontein.
Requirements
- Degree
- Relevant experience in applying job related concepts, techniques and processes at the required level
- Business English: Fluent
- Computer literacy (Intermediate)
- Basic understanding of product technology and formulations
Competencies
- Proactive and action orientated
- Approaches situations with an open mind and solves problems creatively
- Acts with honesty and consistency
- Build high performing teams
- Collaborate with others to achieve a common objective
- Commitment and motivation
- Administrative capabilities
- Thinking and reasoning logically
Duties and Responsibilities
Manage the product formulation process
- Set up, maintain specifications and provide advice
- Assist with product formulations
- Ensure product specifications are recorded on Entropy
- Provide input for BOM update
- Stay abreast of all new developments
- Do ongoing research on new techniques
- Advise regarding quality and production issues
- Liaise with suppliers
- Ensure compliance to legislative issues
Optimize trials
- Conduct regular branch visits
- Maintain first-hand knowledge of production
- Coordinate trials at production facilities and in pilot plant
Provide training
- Provide training to colleagues
- Compile and update training material
- Provide advice and support to Product Technologists
Deadline:22nd January,2026
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Job Advert Summary
- Clover is looking for a Support Manager: Distribution for the Distribution department to Support the business in the development and maintenance of the integrated distribution system at Clover Head Office in Roodepoort.
Requirements
- Degree
- Relevant experience in applying job related concepts, techniques and processes at the required level
- Experience in working with senior management
- Professional registration
- Business English: Fluent
- Computer literacy (Advanced)
Competencies
- Coach and develop people
- Proactive and action orientated
- Solves problems through effective decision making
- Maintains high standards
- Achieves Results Effectively
- Business acumen
- Collaborate with others to achieve a common objective
- Managing people for performance
- Brings a strategic contribution
- Application of financial principles and practices
- Communicates effectively
- Ability to apply numerical principles
- Ability to plan and organize
- Apply expertise and technology
Duties and Responsibilities
Assist with business process development i.r.o. ERP system
- Do high level business process analysis, propose changes, develop specifications for new and other systems
- Test the system and changes to the system to ensure it satisfy the business need
- Implement the appropriate changes and new developments
- Update system documentation
Train users and render a support service
- Perform system month end and credit control month end processing
- Perform system balancing process
- Perform system housekeeping functions
- Compile training manuals
- Train new key users
Provide support to distribution operations
- Support the administrative processes at branch level
- Investigate stock losses and assist to implement preventative action
- Audit branch admin process
- Assist with operational process changes and implementation
- Manage and support system interfaces with Principals and other Clover systems
- Ensure branch checklists are updated and audited regularly
Perform ad hoc reporting and projects
- Manage projects on request
- Assist with ad hoc investigations and problem solving
Deadline:22nd January,2026
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Job Advert Summary
- Clover is looking for Research and Development Specialist: Packaging to manage all packaging-related topics such as Development & Design, Innovation, Optimisation, Compliance and Technical support. This position is based at Clover Head Office in Roodepoort.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- Business English: Fluent
- Code 08 Driver's License
- Good knowledge of packaging raw materials, technologies and functionality
- Knowledge of relevant printing processes
- Understanding packaging principles & optimisation strategies
- Project Management experience
- Travel off-site/Overnight Stay
- Computer Literacy (Intermediate)
- Working with Senior Management
Competencies
- Solves problems through effective decision making.
- Clear and sound reasoning ability
- Brings a strategic contribution
- Lead and drive change for improvement
- Customer orientated
- Thinking and reasoning logically
- Communicates effectively
- Ability to plan and organize
Duties and Responsibilities
Design & Developing of packaging material
- Propose clear packaging recommendations in line with marketing briefs, considering technical feasibility, value analysis, risks, cost, accessibility, timing, food safety, etc.
- Provide the necessary drawings, dummies, worksmaps and all relevant specification requirements
- Be the technical packaging expert & support to all relevant departments (Marketing, Procurement, Production, Quality, Logistics)
- Coordinate and supervise packaging material trials and manage all the packaging aspects of projects
- Define the key criteria of packaging quality and the means to control
- Drive a zero waste & environment friendly culture
- Participate in shelf life predictive modelling, relevant shelf life testing and/or consumer tests
- Stay abreast of local & international packaging launches & trends and communicate opportunities within the Business
- Establish frequent strategic innovation sessions with Marketing to share local and global innovations, ideas and trends
- Build strong networks with key packaging suppliers with the objective to obtain information on innovation, new technology and application
- Ensure the development of packaging in line with the Marketing brief and company's business plans, cost targets and delivering on defined consumer expectations
- Build strong cross-functional relationships with Marketing, Procurement, Production, NBD, Quality and other relevant internal functions
Liaise with packaging material suppliers
- Investigate & develop knowledge on new pack materials & ingredients, functionalities, technologies, printing processes, packaging equipment, innovation and saving opportunities
- Build efficient and professional relationship with suppliers to strengthen technical networks
- Co-ordinate communications amongst suppliers, procurement, production and quality teams
- Mitigate risk for Clover by evaluating & auditing potential new and/or alternative suppliers
- Assist with supplier quality audits and incident investigations
- Responds to packaging quality issues and work cross functionally with both Supply Chain & Packaging Suppliers to resolve
- Ensure regulatory adherence and compliance
Ensure compliance with the operational requirements of the factory
- Create packaging item codes, load and maintain the BOM's
- Draft, issue, maintain and control packaging material specifications, pallet configurations and colour standards
- Ensure pack material designs & quality aspects comply with operational requirements and constraints of the factories
- As the packaging technical support, assist and even lead the process of fault finding (including corrective actions), in co-operation with Production, Procurement, Logistics, Quality and PIT teams, for existing packaging with continuous specification deviations
- Participate with Engineering and Production in setting up and commissioning of new packaging lines/equipment
Support & implement continuous improvements/optimisations of current packaging & processes within factories and external manufacturers according to organizational needs
- Continuously evaluate & improve the design & quality standards of the product ranges, through local and international benchmarking
- Take part in technical projects including technical assistance, sourcing, quality improvements, compliance, and productivity cost savings. Also managing timelines, uncovering roadblocks, defining critical paths and identifying resource constraints
- Continuously search for and identify new fields of cost saving and/or other optimisation or packaging efficiency improvements
- Evaluate, control and implement new packaging optimisations
- Provide first line support to external factories by acting as the resource for packaging knowledge & expertise to eliminate the root cause of assistance requests
- Undertaking long-term projects with other departments, e.g. reducing waste by improving efficiency
Deadline:26th January,2026
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Job Advert Summary
- The purpose of this position is to assist with the operation of downstream equipment within the Powder Tower Factory, ensuring smooth production flow, adherence to safety standards, and support to operational efficiency.
Requirements
- Grade 12 or equivalent NQF4
- Diagnostic competency assessment
- Business English: Fluent
- 2-5yrs relevant experience (FMCG/Food Production) in applying job related concepts, techniques, and processes at the required level
- Work shifts/weekends/public holidays
Competencies
- Achieves Results Effectively
- Acts with honesty and consistency
- Commitment and motivation
Duties and Responsibilities
- Prepare, start up, monitor & maintain and shutdown packaging equipment within the scope of authority
- Monitor critical parameters and solve problems
- Capture data (control sheets)
- Prepare the work area for maintenance and reinstate after maintenance is complete
- Issue job cards for non-scheduled maintenance
- Complete daily and weekly production maintenance schedules
- Sample and test packaging quality
- Monitor critical parameters and solve problems
- Capture data (control sheets)
- Maintain safety, health and environmental standards and good manufacturing practices
- Work in a safe manner at all times
- Ensure downstream plant cleanliness
- Adhere to energy saving principles
Deadline:27th January,2026
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