Barista - Commercial Flavour Genius - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Kerry

    Kerry
    Kerry Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    2 weeks ago

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    Description
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    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