Company Description
A key global player in fermentation for more than a century, Lesaffre, with a €3 billion turnover, and established on all continents, counts 11,000 employees and 96 nationalities.
On the strength of this experience and diversity, we work with customers, partners, and researchers to find ever more relevant answers to the needs of food, health, naturalness and respect for our environment. Thus, every day, we explore and reveal the infinite potential of microorganisms.
To nourish 9 billion people, in a healthy way, in 2050 by making the most of our planet’s resources is a major and unprecedented issue. We believe that fermentation is one of the most promising answers to this challenge.
Working together to better nourish and protect the planet.
Job Description
Within our entity Lesaffre Kenya, you will ensure product quality and support innovation by conducting baking tests, monitoring performance, handling non-conformities, and providing technical support for new product development. You will contribute to increasing sales of Lesaffre yeasts and ingredients, through market knowledge.
Your missions :
- Conduct comparative yeast tests and regular baking trials
- Control the quality of improvers, mixes, and release agents before market release
- Report non-conformities and follow up on deviations
- Maintain records and quality reports
- Ensure high hygiene standards in the baking lab
- Suggest continuous improvement ideas
- Handle customer complaints and prepare technical reports
- Support R&D teams in product development projects
- Assist the sales team with industrial, craft, and in-store clients
- Identify customer needs and turn them into technical projects
- Collaborate with bakers and formulators on product development
- Lead technical trainings and product demonstrations
- Report visits and trials in the CRM system
- Share field feedback with internal teams
- Present results and recommendations to clients
Qualifications
- Diploma or bachelor’s degree in food science or in the bakery industry. Experience in craft baking, product testing, industrial bread production and laboratory analysis
Technical Skills :
- Strong knowledge of confectionery and cake decoration
- knowledge and practices of the Kenyan breadmaking market
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Soft Skills :
- Ability to prioritize daily activities to meet client/internal needs within established timelines in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to monitor and report on assigned tasks, goals, and objectives
- Listening to different perspectives and showing flexibility
- Ability to work with different personalities/teams, build collaboration and consensus
- Customer oriented ideology
- Sense of confidentiality
Additional Information
Frequent travel across Kenya, often for several days at a time
