Technical Sales Representative - Food Technologist

Express Employment Professionals; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 250,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Express Employment Professionals in Johannesburg is seeking a motivated individual to promote and sell food products and services. The role involves conducting trials, providing customer training, and developing new products for butchers and factories.

The ideal candidate will possess a degree in Food Science, excellent communication skills in Afrikaans, and a strong work ethic. Willingness to travel is essential, along with an aptitude for mechanical tasks.

Qualifications

• A degree in Food Science or equivalent.
• Driver’s License required.
• Ability to take initiative and communicate effectively.
• Willingness to travel and strong work ethic.
• Mechanical aptitude and resilience.

Responsibilities

• Conduct product application trials and develop new markets.
• Provide technical advisory services and customer training.
• Evaluate products on site as requested by clients.
• Develop new products for butchers and large factories.
• Research potential new markets and analyze sales leads.

Skills

Initiative

Communication

Relationship building

Professionalism

Attention to detail

Resilience

Mechanical aptitude

Teamwork

Education

Degree in Food Science or equivalent

Job description

Overview

The main purpose of this role is to promote and sell the company's products and services to existing and potential clients.

Requirements

• A degree in Food Science or equivalent.
• Driver’s License.
• Ability to take initiative.
• Communication and Relationship building ability.
• Professionalism and reliability/ strong work ethic.
• Willingness to Travel.
• Quality orientation/ attention to detail.
• Resilience, energy, self- motivation.
• Mechanical aptitude.
• Excellent Communication in Afrikaans.

Competencies

• Communication.
• Teamwork.
• Quality orientation.
• Professionalism.
• Initiative.
• Team Management.
• Resilience.
• Service excellence.
• Problem solving.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Application trials - Trials on new products and development of products and new markets.
• Customer training - Customer service value added technical advisory services.
• Testing & evaluation of products as required by clients (on site).
• New product development for Butchers and large factories that may be required in order to generate new markets.
• General customer service value adds and advisory technical services and back up to clients in liaison with Senior Food Technologist.
• Technical advisory services to butchers (this includes consulting on product quality, production capacities and efficiencies, implementation of quality control/assurance systems) in order to increase production output and shelf of products.
• Researching potential new markets for potential new business, analysing and reporting on sales leads linked to client.