Technical Sales Representative - Factories
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
The main purpose of this role is to promote and sell the company's products and services to existing and potential clients in the food manufacturing industry.
Requirements:
- A degree in Food Science or Equivalent
- 6 months to 2 years experience within a food production environment
- Drivers License and own car
- Communication and relationship-building ability - Proficiency in Afrikaans is beneficial
- Professionalism and reliability/ strong work ethic
- Willingness to Travel
- Mechanical aptitude
- 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 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) to increase production output and shelf of products.
- Researching potential new markets for potential new business, analysing and reporting on sales leads linked to the client.
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