Country Manager at Corporate Staffing

Responsibilities

Responsibilities as a Technical Sales manager:

• Analyze market and product range of suppliers to find new potentials.
• Create strong relationship with food producers.
• Develop sales strategies for specified ingredients (business development).
• Visit customers in Kenya, analyze their needs, create value proposition.
• Advice ingredients applications and develop tailor-made recipes for customers where required.
• Attend production trials at customers / make small-scale trials in the application kitchen. 
• Make price offers / follow-up of projects & payments from customers.
• Align sales strategy for suppliers’ product groups under the supervision of Springboard managers.
• Check legal requirements (certification, registration, labelling, and import).

Responsibilities as a Country manager (Director): 

• Keep good relationship with suppliers of the company.
• Control business processes within the company (logistics, contracts, administration, warehouse, usage of internal computer program).
• Financial control (payments, exchange rate, costs of the company).
• Coach and motivate employees.
• Generate profit of the company.

Qualifications & Experience 

• Bachelor or Master Degree in Food Technology.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in food industry (Production / Sales).
• Ability to solve technological problems and the passion for developing food products.
• Exceptional communication and analytical skills, highly organized, reliable, ability to motivate and guide employees.
• Good negotiation skills, positive thinking. 
• Fluent in written and spoken English. 
• Prepared to travel.
• Located in Nairobi.
• Business acumen.
• Skilled computer user.