Beverage Development Specialist (Mixologist) - West Africa at Kerry Group Plc

Kerry Group Plc - Founded in 1972 in Co. Kerry, Ireland, the Kerry Group has annualised sales in excess of €7 Billion and supplies over 18,000 food ingredients and flavour products to customers in more than 140 countries worldwide. We have established over 150 manufacturing sites, operate in over 30 countries, and employ 25,000 people worldwide.

Kerry has been present in the Asia-Pacific region since 1997 and has grown its business to become a supplier of choice for our regional and local customers. With over 4,500 employees across the Asia-Pacific, Middle East & Africa (APMEA), Kerry has many exciting opportunities at our many Development & Application Centres, Sales Offices and Manufacturing sites. Spread over 18 countries - and growing - Kerry plays a large role in supplying food & beverage solutions to this diverse region.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Beverage Development Specialist (Mixologist) - West Africa

Requisition ID: 55151
Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

• Creates innovative drink concepts for Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Develops unique operationally sensible concepts for key accounts. 
• Cover the West African market and assist the Regional Sales Manager - West Africa to drive demos to end customers, conduct Masterclasses, Trainings, distributor sales team and barista trainings and drive the penetration of DaVinci gourmet in the region.

Key Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains on-trend beverage concept library to support national brands.
• Assists with new product development efforts, custom and branded, from concept to commercialization.
• Responsible for creating gold standard and approving benchtop and scale-up samples prior to presentation to customer. 
• Responsible for internal beverage training: on premise applications, coffee, chai, and smoothies. 
• Assists with creative brainstorming and copy writing for beverage related concepts - to help merchandise concepts at store level.
• Assists with new product development efforts, key shows and key account calls as needed.
• Develops relationships with beverage equipment suppliers and partners.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree required. 
• Requires 4+ years experience in beverage industry, particularly on-premise/bar segment and coffee market.
• Knowledge of Mixology is essential  
• Must have knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices and procedures, including beverage equipment.  
• A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. 
• Travel required (50%). 

Key Attributes:

• Adept in mixology; professional; understands full workings of alcohol and coffee bar
• Presentation skills - articulate, entertaining
• Creativity. Ability to think out of the box in developing solutions for customers and communicating/selling ideas internally.
• Communication skills – ability to build rapport easily
• Well-rounded assortment of industry contacts and relationships, preferably with key operators and leading spirit companies.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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