Jobs at Nurture Brands

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the full employee lifecycle across both businesses
• Lead industrial relations, disciplinary processes, and CCMA matters
• Ensure full labour law compliance across operations
• Drive end-to-end recruitment aligned to workforce planning and employer brand positioning
• Foster a positive workplace culture by implementing employee engagement initiatives
• Implement and manage an effective performance management system
• Oversee payroll review, benefits administration and HR reporting
• Prepare and submit EE reports and support BBBEE objectives
• Compile the annual Workplace Skills Plan that supports HR and company strategy, and submit Annual Training Report to SETA within deadlines
• Compile and manage the annual training budget as well as levy
  payments and grant rebates
• Implement training, learnerships and skills development initiatives
• Manage and develop a small HR team
• Manage costs against budget
• Act as a trusted advisor to operational leaders, providing practical, business-aligned

Requirements

What We’re Looking For

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Human Resources or related field

Experience

• 5–8 years’ generalist HR experience
• Strong industrial relations and labour law exposure
• Experience within FMCG / manufacturing environments
• Proven experience operating in a hands-on HR management role
• Exposure to employer branding, employee engagement.

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 Key Responsibilities

Sales Leadership & Team Performance

• Lead, coach and motivate national sales teams
• Set and drive clear sales targets and KPIs
• Build a high-performance, accountable sales culture
• Conduct regular coaching, field accompaniment and performance reviews
• Align JNB and CPT operations for consistency and discipline
• Proactively address performance gaps and capability development

Revenue Ownership & Target Delivery

• Own and deliver national sales targets
• Translate commercial strategy into actionable regional objectives
• Monitor daily, weekly and monthly performance
• Drive corrective action where required
• Ensure alignment to agreed product and range priorities

Food Service Growth

• Personally call on key food service accounts
• Grow basket size and deepen restaurant relationships
• Lead onboarding of new food service customers
• Ensure full-service support from onboarding through ongoing servicing
• Work closely with Brand and Trade teams to support menu placement and product trials

Retail Execution & Merchandising

• Drive execution excellence in-store
• Ensure compliance to call cycles and store coverage
• Monitor and resolve execution issues in market
• Collaborate with Trade Marketing to ensure commercial plans are implemented effectively

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Participate in forecasting and demand discussions
• Provide customer and market insight to Trade Marketing and Brand
• Align with Supply Chain, Operations and Finance
• Act as the voice of the customer internally

Requirements

What We’re Looking For

Essential

• 8–10+ years FMCG sales experience
• Proven national or regional sales leadership experience
• Strong retail and food service channel knowledge
• Track record of delivering revenue growth
• Exceptional coaching and people leadership capability

Advantageous

• Experience in food manufacturing or chilled categories
• Understanding of route-to-market and distributor dynamics
• Exposure to national merchandising structures