Job Description

DO YOU HAVE THE APPITITE TO GROW YOUR MAGIC? Consumers everywhere are increasingly conscious of the quality of the food they eat. Puratos develops, produces, and distributes a unique range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers who demand the very highest quality.
Founded in Belgium in 1919, From humble beginnings to worldwide success, join us on our journey and discover our history and heritage.
Wexe2x80x99ve evolved from a father-and-son start-up in Belgium, to a global group with more than 9000 employees, 93 innovation centers, and more than 65 manufacturing operations across 81 countries to date. Itxe2x80x99s with great pride that we look back on this century of hard work, courage, and innovation. Thank you for making it all possible and letxe2x80x99s continue building the next 100 years of shared success!
Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit, and core value our communities, is what makes working at Puratos so magical. JUNIOR BAKER (Bloemfontein, South Africa)
POSITION OVERVIEW Based at Bloemfontein, to further strengthen our local Sales team, we are currently seeking a Junior Baker reporting directly to the Sales Manager, the successful candidate for this key function will be responsible for:
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Bake all products with excellence.
• Train customers bakers on our products.
• Present finished goods.
• Sleep away from home.
• Work with the Sales team to build and grow the business.
• Plan and execute daily and weekly bakery production.
• Build relationships with customers.
• Create new innovative products from existing products.
• Perform under pressure during shows, presentations, and store openings.
• Calculate costings at store level.
• Apply skills by putting recipes together using baker percentage.
• Baking and working closely with the sales team to reach sales target.

• Grade 12;
• Driverxe2x80x99s License;
• Experience: Minimum of 1 -2 years as a baker;
• Languages: English is a prerequisite; additional language(s) an advantage;
• Computer literacy: Office computer (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word);
• Other expertise: Business & result driven, strong presentation skills, strong interpersonal skills, team player, creative, innovative.

• Collaborating Effectively: Ability to think and act as one team in a spirit of trust and respect. Being open to different ideas. Building formal and informal relationship networks.
• Communicating Effectively: Developing and delivering communications in diverse modes that generate a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Driving Performance: Showing ambition and going the extra mile in achieving expected results. Driving sustainable operational excellence through diligent planning, prioritization, monitoring & effective use of resources.
• Improving Continuously: Being passionate about achieving high quality standards for oneself and the organization. Constantly looking for and taking advantage of improvement opportunities
• Managing Customer Needs: Being able and eager to find out what the internal or external customer wants and needs and to act accordingly. Making the life of the customer easier. Fostering a customer centric culture.
• Ethical, honest and utmost integrity - sharing Puratos values.