Industry Manager: Food and Nutrition

6 months ago


Randburg, South Africa IMCD Full time

**Industry Manager: Food and Nutrition**

**Background and Role**:
The IMCD Group is a global leader in sales, marketing and distribution of specialty chemicals and ingredients. With a network of global locations and warehouses in EMEA, America and the Asia-Pacific region, IMCD offers its partners tailor-made solutions for supra-regional distribution management. With its headquarters in Rotterdam, IMCD has more than 3,300 employees in over 50 countries advise leading global manufacturers with their outstanding expertise.

IMCD South Africa is looking for an experienced Industry Manager who will play a crucial role in our ambition to become more technically insights driven and market/consumer, trends/customer focused. The Industry Manager will be based at the IMCD ‘s Randburg office, reporting into the BU Manager: Food and Nutrition.

**Main Tasks and Responsibilities**
- Distribution of speciality food ingredients, with specific focus on developing the Nutrition Market Segment.
- Maintaining the existing customer base, as well as identifying new opportunities.
- Development and expansion of all market segments
- Creation and submission of offers, including price responsibility.
- Independent processing of customer inquiries including complaints.
- Technical advice to customers on the development of formulations, including appropriate sampling.
- Report maintenance and documentation in the CRM system (Salesforce)
- Responsibility for budget and requirements planning
- Collaboration and participation in trade fairs and customer seminars as technical insight days.
- Stock Management:Working closely with Principal Managers to ensure an optimal stock holding.
- Have a relevant tertiary qualification in Food Technology with between 3 - 5 years relevantsales experience.
- Experience and knowledge of regulatory requirements in the Food Industry.
- In-depth knowledge of Functional Food Ingredients.
- Experience in Nutritional Ingredients an advantage
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Be resilient, and able to multi-task and work under pressure.
- Be solution-focused.
- Have high independence and self-motivation.
- Be a team player - supporting colleagues when needed and working as part of a team is essential to our success.
- Being highly numerate - giving quotes, placing orders, preparing reports or working with spreadsheets. Being able to spot discrepancies, working with percentages and in general be comfortable working with numbers.
- Be computer literate.
- Experience in a multinational company on operational level will be an advantage.
- Enjoy travel.

**Primary Job Location**

275 Oak Avenue, Ferndale, Randburg

**Travel**

Regional to visit customers as well as international to attend supplier training.

**IMCD Offers**

A market related CTC salary with attractive benefits and working conditions.

A corporate culture that promotes performance and is based on partnership with flat hierarchies.


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