Technical Key Account Manager – Butchery/Meat Operations

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

• Help and assist our clients customers by making of product, training, provide guidance and problem solving (factories and butcheries)
• Create new product lines and grow business/Gross Profit of the business
• Learn and apply client classifications
• Plan on building market share across all categories
• Drive and achieve, volumes and budgets across all categories
• Build solid long-standing client relationships
• Absolute focus on customer and service
• Develop new relationships through field visits
• Develop agreements for factory accounts
• Implementing suggested savings and tracking the value of the saving
• Cost control, waste elimination, production flows and effective process controls
• Driving Capex projects and managing Budgets
• New Product Development – developing and pitching new products to our clients customers

Key Competencies:

• Discipline and time management
• Planning and proactive approach
• Customer service and relationship building skills – essential
• Communication and persuasiveness
• Resilience
• Business Acumen
• Commercial experience – essential
• Butchery and Factory operations experience – essential

Essential Requirements:

• B. Sc. Food Science or any other food related qualification or extensive Butchery/Meat processing experience
• MBA – advantageous
• 5 -10 years’ experience in sales within a food manufacturing environment /FMCG
• 5 – 10 years Commercial experience
• 5 – 10 years Butchery Operations knowledge/experience
• Butchery equipment knowledge/experience – advantageous
• 5 – 10 years Meat processing experience
• Experience in managing key account customers

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