Beverage Development Specialist (Mixologist) - West Africa

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the role

Creates innovative drink concepts for Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Develops unique operationally sensible concepts for key accounts. 

Cover the West  African market and assist the Regional Sales Manager – West Africa to drive demos to end customers, conduct Masterclasses, Trainings, distributor sales team and barista trainings and drive the penetration of DaVinci gourmet in the region.
 

Key responsibilities

• Builds and maintains on-trend beverage concept library to support national brands.
• Assists with new product development efforts, custom and branded, from concept to commercialization.
• Responsible for creating gold standard and approving benchtop and scale-up samples prior to presentation to customer. 
• Responsible for internal beverage training: on premise applications, coffee, chai, and smoothies. 
• Assists with creative brainstorming and copy writing for beverage related concepts – to help merchandise concepts at store level.
• Assists with new product development efforts, key shows and key account calls as needed.
• Develops relationships with beverage equipment suppliers and partners.
   

Qualifications and skills

• Requires 4+ years experience in beverage industry, particularly on-premise/bar segment and coffee market. 
• Bachelor’s degree required. 
• Knowledge of Mixology is essential  
• Must have knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices and procedures, including beverage equipment.  
• A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. 
• Travel required (50%). 

 
Key attributes:

• Adept in mixology; professional; understands full workings of alcohol and coffee bar
• Presentation skills – articulate, entertaining
• Creativity. Ability to think out of the box in developing solutions for customers and communicating/selling ideas internally.
• Communication skills – ability to build rapport easily
• Well-rounded assortment of industry contacts and relationships, preferably with key operators and leading spirit companies.
• Strong organizational and project management skills