Job Summary
Main Purpose of the Job:
The main purpose of this role is to promote and sell the company's products and services to existing and potential clients.
Requirements
- A degree in Food Science or equivalent.
- Driver’s License.
- Ability to take initiative.
- Communication and Relationship building ability.
- Professionalism and reliability/ strong work ethic.
- Willingness to Travel.
- Quality orientation/ attention to detail.
- Resilience, energy, self- motivation.
- Mechanical aptitude.
- Excellent Communication in Afrikaans.
Competencies
- Communication.
- Teamwork.
- Quality orientation.
- Professionalism.
- Initiative.
- Team Management.
- Resilience.
- Service excellence.
- Problem solving.
Key Responsibilities:
- Product Application trials - Trials on new products and development of products and new markets.
- Customer training - Customer service value added technical advisory services.
- Testing & evaluation of products as required by clients (on site).
- New product development for Butchers and large factories that may be required in order to generate new markets.
- General customer service value adds and advisory technical services and back up to clients in liaison with Senior Food Technologist.
- Technical advisory services to butchers (this includes consulting on product quality, production capacities and efficiencies, implementation of quality control/assurance systems) in order to increase production output and shelf of products.
- Researching potential new markets for potential new business, analysing and reporting on sales leads linked to client.