Cape Herb and Spice has grown from entrepreneurial roots into a global player, employing over 500 people and operating over 3 sites in Cape Town. Centered around innovation and quality, Cape Herb and Spice gives any candidate a great opportunity to gain extensive experience and build an exciting career.

The tea division of Cape Herb & Spice is looking for a dynamic project manager to lead tea, and herb & spice projects for a key local customer as well as help grow the tea business internationally by working closely with customers across the globe, with a common goal to deliver innovative tea, and herb & spice products which South Africa has to offer.

Challenges abound in this fast-paced role that offers the opportunity to learn about international business, food and what it takes to be at the top of your industry.

Duties and Responsibilities
• Keep abreast of, and research new concepts, trends, market activity and innovation within the tea and herb and spice categories
• Develop successful, commercially viable products that are sustainable and in line with the trends and intended target market
• Manage and execute all stages of the product development process within given deadlines
• Ensure product conforms to country specific regulations on product and packaging
• Manage sustainable sourcing of new raw materials and packaging from compliant suppliers
• Ensure NPD tea compliance to continuously updated certifications
• Liaison between customer and internal operational departments on all new projects to ensure effective launches
• Schedule, lead and monitor customer weekly meetings and minutes
• On-time product launches
• Effective execution of launches within internal departments

Requirements:
Either an equivalent of the below degrees and 3-5 years’ experience or 5-10 years’ experience will be recognized
Advantageous Qualifications:
-Food Tech
-Food Science
-BCom Marketing/ Business
Advantageous Experience in:
-Customer account management
-Project management
-Product Development

Qualities and attributes required:
-Deadline driven
-Fluency with excel
-Commercially minded
-High attention to detail
-A passionate and knowledgeable foodie
-A good communicator
-A creative thinker
-Team player
-Strong interpersonal skills
-Optimistic
-solution finder