Junior Baker

**DO YOU HAVE THE APPITITE TO GROW YOUR MAGIC?**

Consumers everywhere are increasingly conscious of the quality of the food they eat. Puratos develops, produces, and distributes a unique range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers who demand the very highest quality.

Founded in Belgium in 1919, From humble beginnings to worldwide success, join us on our journey and discover our history and heritage.

We’ve evolved from a father-and-son start-up in Belgium, to a global group with more than 9000 employees, 93 innovation centers, and more than 65 manufacturing operations across 81 countries to date. It’s with great pride that we look back on this century of hard work, courage, and innovation. Thank you for making it all possible and let’s continue building the next 100 years of shared success

Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit, and core value our communities, is what makes working at Puratos so magical.

**JUNIOR BAKER**

**_(_**_Nelspruit, South Africa)_

**POSITION OVERVIEW**

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**
- Bake all products with excellence.
- Train customers bakers on our products.
- Present finished goods.
- Sleep away from home.
- Work with the Sales team to build and grow the business.
- Plan and execute daily and weekly bakery production.
- Build relationships with customers.
- Create new innovative products from existing products.
- Perform under pressure during shows, presentations, and store openings.
- Calculate costings at store level.
- Baking and working closely with the sales team to reach sales target.

**JOB MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**
- Grade 12;
- Driver’s License;
- Experience: Minimum of 1 -2 years as a baker;
- Languages: English is a prerequisite; additional language(s) an advantage;
- Computer literacy: Office computer (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word);
- Other expertise: Business & result driven, strong presentation skills, strong interpersonal skills, team player, creative, innovative.

**REQUIRED COMPETENCIES**
- **Collaborating Effectively**: Ability to think and act as one team in a spirit of trust and respect. Being open to different ideas. Building formal and informal relationship networks.
- **Communicating Effectively**: Developing and delivering communications in diverse modes that generate a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
- **Driving Performance**: Showing ambition and going the extra mile in achieving expected results. Driving sustainable operational excellence through diligent planning, prioritization, monitoring & effective use of resources.
- **Improving Continuously**: Being passionate about achieving high quality standards for oneself and the organization. Constantly looking for and taking advantage of improvement opportunities
- **Managing Customer Needs**: Being able and eager to find out what the internal or external customer wants and needs and to act accordingly. Making the life of the customer easier. Fostering a customer centric culture.
- Ethical, honest and utmost integrity - sharing Puratos values.

**_OFFER_**
- Puratos provides a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment that encourages our people to take initiatives and bring ideas that will contribute to the success of the company. Of course, Puratos offers a competitive package (salary, and market related benefits) but additionally, offers you a position that you can further develop and shape._

**Steps to apply**:

- **Click on attached link to access SuccessFactors.**:

- **Enter your Username and Password.**:

- **Click on Home and select “Careers”.**:

- **Select “South Africa” for Country to filter only for South African jobs that have been advertised.**

**CLOSING DATE: 24 NOVEMBER 2023