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The senior application manager is responsible for leading the team of our local beverage and food application lab in Johannesburg (South Africa), as well as coordinating customer projects andacting as the technical key contact for our customers in the area.
Within the role you will be responsible for managing a successful team, developing, and training individuals, fostering relationships with sales, customers, and team members.
• fully understand the companies Nutrition's product and service portfolio
• create, further develop, and maintain a regional product portfolio
• follow and understand the business strategy of regional and local key accounts. You coordinate and manage the customer product development projects, supporting the development process from the generation of concepts to the creation of laboratory samples and industrial manufacturing. Focus on beverage and sweet food applications
• provide guidance and technical support on final product formulation and manufacturing to our commercial team
• set goals and priorities for the team and balance resources to achieve goals
• build-up, lead, coach, and train a team of technicians. You are a mentor for your team, and you provide objective insight and guidance on career path and progression
• collaborate and communicate between departments across EMEA, including our development headquarters in Germany, other application labs and the commercial team

Key Job Functions

• Supporting the incoming raw material QC team in checking COA’s of incoming goods, requesting any necessary missing documentation to ensure this documentation is received in a timely manner from suppliers & allowing for timely raw material release, planning & organizing any external testing of incoming materials.
• Manage and maintain supplier raw materials specifications and self-audit questionnaires.
• Rigorously ensure that all suppliers and ingredients meet appropriate food safety standards such as allergen and foreign body control
• Risk Assessing suppliers & raw materials (support of HACCP / VACCP systems), developing incoming testing programs
• Ensure new and revised ingredients meet all legal requirements including food labelling laws
• Manage and maintain the authenticity risk register and chains of custody for raw materials Ensure certificates and due diligence documentation is held for all suppliers
• Support NPD by overseeing the approval of new ingredients and suppliers through to kitchen stage by checking suitability and assessing quality and food safety risks
• Maintaining supplier approval documentation
• Set up new suppliers and maintain current suppliers on FPI.
• Manage supplier sites on FPI by ensuring all certificates are up to date and supplier information is accurate.
• Close off all supplier audit findings on FPI in collaboration with the supplier.
• Ensure suppliers are compliant with our ethical requirements
• Carry out horizon scanning, communicating risks appropriately
• Monitor supplier KPI performance, work with the Supplier Technologists to continuously review current ways of working and look for improvements
• Undertake the completion of customer and Brand specifications and associated documentation to meet required critical paths.
• Ensure that all specifications and artwork are accurate and comply with all relevant legislation, as per the critical path.
• Review and comment on relevant artwork platforms, ensuring timescales are met to achieve project.
• Developing & maintaining buying specifications
• Assisting with training of staff within QC & warehouse as necessary
• Review & develop procedures & SOPs as part of annual system reviews and in accordance to business needs / changes
• Non-conformances:
o Daily checking of rejection area & resolving NCR’s
o Recording, reporting & resolving non-conformance situations. Performing root cause analysis to prevent recurrence of issue.
• Perform any ad hoc duties as identified by the QA manager.

The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Advisor will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the program monitoring and evaluation framework and information system to track delivery against targets, outcomes and impacts.
They will lead the analysis of data collected for assessment of progress and areas of improvement, and overall data management, including health systems maturity monitoring.
They will guide reporting processes amongst technical staff and consolidate program reports, and promote learning and knowledge sharing of best practices and lessons learned.
They will support all the technical staff in MEL functions and will manage any MEL related staff in the program.

The senior application manager is responsible for leading the team of our local beverage and food application lab in Johannesburg (South Africa), as well as coordinating customer projects and acting as the technical key contact for our customers in the area.

Within the role you will be responsible for managing a successful team, developing, and training individuals, fostering relationships with sales, customers, and team members.
You:

• fully understand the company’s Nutrition's product and service portfolio
• create, further develop, and maintain a regional product portfolio
• follow and understand the business strategy of regional and local key accounts. You coordinate and manage the customer product development projects, supporting the development process from the generation of concepts to creation of laboratory samples, through to industrial manufacturing. Focus on beverage and sweet food applications
• provide guidance and technical support on final product formulation and manufacturing to our commercial team
• set goals and priorities for the team and balance resources to achieve goals
• build-up, lead, coach, and train a team of technicians. You are a mentor for your team, and you provide objective insight and guidance on career path and progression
• collaborate and communicate between departments across EMEA, including our development headquarters in Germany, other application labs and the commercial team

Coordinates the development of Data Driven Project Documents including M&E frameworks. Informing Programming using Data and Evidence.
Leads project teams in the development and implementation of M&E systems and oversee routine program monitoring activities.
Ensure the quality and relevance of the project’s monitoring and evaluation design.
Develops and implements databases, data collection systems, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality.
Support circulation and promote dialogue of monitoring results with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
Manages critical analysis of strengths and weakness of the processes, lessons learned, and guiding principles.
Ensure that performance indicators for the projects are appropriate to their respective hierarchical level along the results chain.
Develops baseline data for each project component and for all project indicators.
Develops a plan for project-related capacity-building on M&E and for any computer-based support that may be required.
Ensures the quality of M&E related data to be collected throughout the program implementation.
Crafts dashboards for monitoring and evaluation framework.
Assist the Team Leads in preparing other relevant reports, concepts informed by data. Act as a focal point to organise and manage monitoring reviews, evaluations and/or data analytics.
Manages and develops data collection systems, data analytics frameworks and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality.
Interprets data and analyze results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports.
Analysing spatial data through the use of mapping software, discovering patterns and trends through spatial mapping of data, designing digital maps with geographic data and other data sources.
Engages internal and external stakeholders on data analytics and identify opportunities for synergies on data needs.
Works with teams to define key priority research questions, identify priority sectors specific to projects, and working with teams in formulating research designs.
Design and run evidence-based experiments respective projects – providing feedback to teams on new products and models. Designing trials, executing trials and conclusively developing scaling methodology of successful products.
Meets with M&E staff, discusses and agrees medium and short term objectives and develops work plans.
Provide supervision, advisory support and feedback to M&E staff.
Carries out on-going evaluation of M&E staff, identifies performance strengths and deficiencies, and arranges for necessary action.

Operate HPLC and GC equipment safely.
Equipment is Moisture analyzer, and Analytical balance. As well as running and analyzing the data that is collected through the HPLC and GC.
Maintains equipment and instruments in good operating condition recognize any malfunctions and troubleshoot as needed.
Performing sample preparation.
Report data for the testing/screening of samples.
Maintaining strict inventory records of all materials, chemicals and equipment used in laboratory.
Perform preparation and cleaning of equipment and work space efficiently.
Analyzing data accurately and timely.