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• Position: Beverage Development Specialist (Mixologist) - West Africa



• Job Type Full Time



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND



• Experience 4 years



• Location Lagos




• Job Field Sales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development 
  
  

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