Flavour Genius

**Requisition ID** 48619
**Position Type** FT Permanent
**Recruiter **#LI-SS1
**Posting Type** LI

**About Kerry**:
Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

**About the role**:
Work Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Reporting To: Foodservice Brands Country Manager

**Key responsibilities**:

- Manage demonstration and brand presentation with showmanship.
- Support our distributor to manage Da Vinci Gourmet promotions and customer service - provide recipes development and beverage solutions - to key accounts in order to assure an important brand presence and development.
- Ideally be beverage category trained so able to speak the same language as the target audience, stakeholders ie R&D Managers, Beverage Menu developers across the range of key accounts
- Initiate, develop and follow up with the assistance of Da Vinci Gourmet local sales personnel together with the distributor the sales in each channel, in particular in the food service, coffee shops, hotels, bars and restaurant segment.
- Identify current market trends and opportunities for new product development, to be shared with the internal stake holders.
- Proactively works on channel planning process, to meet performance objectives.
- Commercial account management skills & new product development is a must.
- Proven track recording in menu development, self-motivated and driven.
- Support marketing for social media platforms.

**Performance Measures**:

- Achieves assigned sales quota in designated strategic accounts.
- Meets assigned expectations for profitability -volume, revenue and business margins.
- Achieves strategic objectives defined by company management.
- Ensure high quality service and reporting standards are met.
- Maintains high customer satisfaction ratings

**Qualifications and skills**:

- Certificate/Diploma with minimum 3 years’ relevant experience in Barista, Mixologist or R&D to promote branded products.
- Solid creative beverage development skills
- Able to work from a strategic creative brief and support/lead the strategic development of new concepts and products.
- Ability to provide consultative menu development skills to foodservice operators in individual and group settings, using multiple media options e.g. videos, webinars, and live demonstrations.
- Partner with sales and marketing team in technical activities.
- Highly developed communication skills - extremely comfortable presenting to large audiences, especially in English and Bahasa.
- Have a deep understanding of the importance of brand building.