Commercial Project Co-ordinator

Reporting: Business Development Executive - Cape Herb and Spice

Are you a driven and adaptable individual seeking an exciting opportunity?

Join our team as a Dynamic Project Coordinator (and Account Manager, in-training) in the realm of new business development. The role offers a unique blend of travel, exposure to the food industry and the chance to work with individuals possessing diverse talents. This position is ideal for someone who is passionate about food and commercially minded, otherwise passionate about sales and client relationship building and is looking for hands on experience in the food industry.

**Key Responsibilities**:
Working very closely with the Business Development Executive, your role will be to see through profitable opportunities across current as well as new, retail, and industrial markets, local as well as global, across wet and dry condiments, tea and gifting categories in support of the current product development and sales teams.

You will develop the knowledge and necessary skills to begin handling the commercials on select customers over time.

**Key Functional Areas**:

- Acquire an in-depth understanding of our products, capabilities, and capacity together with the needs and requirements of our customers to align these optimally and build a prosperous business relationship.
- Market and Trends Research as well as Category Analysis.
- Compilation of Category Reviews per division per key customer.
- Cross division and departmental liaison.
- Manage support functions to ensure customer needs are met (e.g., NPD, Procurement, QA, Operations)
- Execute a thorough and consistent communication plan both internally & externally, strengthening and building a great customer relationship through efficiency, trust, reliability, and mutual respect.
- Instrumental role in building on the catalogue of existing customer base.
- Support all tasks aimed at Business development.
- Maintain margin by monitoring of costs and pricing, together with Cost accountants.
- Assist in developing and implementing sales and customer growth plans, strategies, and action plans.
- Work internally with supply chain/operations to ensure optimum stock availability.

**Required Prior Learning/Experience**:

- Degree in Sales/Marketing, Consumer Science or similar.
- 2-3 years relevant work experience.
- A maximum of 5 years’ experience in an FMCG environment.

**Required Knowledge and Skills**:

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Good computer skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Commercial mindset.
- Business Acumen.
- Good organizational skills.

**Personal Characteristics**:

- Self-motivated.
- Energetic.
- Optimistic.
- Customer
- service oriented.
- A ‘People-person.
- Detail orientated.
- Ability to perform in a high pressure, fast paced environment.
- Great Time management.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Ability to critically evaluate information.

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