An industry-leading client of ours is currently looking for an experienced and ambitious Technical Manager to join their team.

Requirements: 

• Relevant qualification: Degree in Food Science, Food Technology, or Biochemistry
• Extensive knowledge of flour milling and related applications.
• Extensive knowledge of plant bakeries and related products.
• Understanding of R&D processes
• Customer relationship skill set
• Translation of customer requests into production solutions
• Strong fault-finding abilities

Duties & Responsibilities

• Milling Technical Capabilities (30%)
• Develop technical capabilities within the front-end technical team
• Develop the Technical capability and skills strategy
• Identify required skill sets, evaluate against current skills, and execute the development plan and tools
• Implement and measure the effectiveness of a technical team
• Support National and Regional Technical team
• Customer technical support (50%)
• Assist with R&D on the Supreme brand for In-Store (SC, PnP, Spar & Others).
• Support channel teams with technical issues and develop relationships with key customer stakeholders
• Development of bespoke premixes for In-store retail.
• Develop innovation funnel with key retailers
• Lead and support Channel Customer teams technically in the Industrial channel and QSR Channels
• Lead the technical agenda for these channels and develop the required technical skills within the team
• Customer support regarding technical / quality problems and troubleshooting at the plant level – customer operational excellence
• Assist in developing specialty flours and forward integration projects
• Assist in retaining and gaining customers in the industrial channel by adding technical value
• Partner with Marketing to develop and execute a CRM programme to build the Supreme Brand
• Lead and support the innovation programme for key strategic customers and Supreme branded products
• Food Solutions and Industrial Customer Quality (10%)
• Review current operational systems and identify improvements, develop new systems, and execute
• Oversight of all Food Solutions quality issues and operational excellence

Projects (10%)

• Provide support to Technical exec and/or lead for Milling innovation and capability projects (forward integration/innovation capex and execution/product improvement initiatives – both production)

If you meet the above requirements and want to make a career-changing move, apply today by emailing your CV to: [email protected]

Alternatively, you can visit our website to find your next opportunity – www.rporecruitment.co.za  or give us a call at 021 180 0776 and ask for Nikki. 

Please note that correspondence will only be conducted with shortlisted candidates for this position.