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:

As our Barista - Commercial Flavour Genius you will be responsibile for creating innovative drink concepts for coffee based beverages as well as cocktails/mocktails. Develops unique operationally sensible concepts for key accounts as well as Independent coffee Shops.

To be based in Dubai, UAE

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.
• Conducts masterclasses in the region to provide insight to customers and industry leveraging current and future trends
• Promotes the brand through social media engagement as well as all other media channels
• Develops relationships with beverage equipment suppliers and partners.
• Compete in Barista / Mixology Events as the ambassador to the brand

Qualifications and Skills:

• Requires 4+ years experience in beverage industry, particularly HORECA segment and coffee market.
• Fluent Arabic Speaker
• Would suit prior Barista Competitors with ambition to create a career in the Beverage Industry.
• Undergraduate degree desirable.
• Must have knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices and procedures, including beverage equipment.
• A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Travel required (40%).

Key attributes:

• Adept in barista and mixology skills; professional;
• 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

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