Barista - Commercial Flavour Genius

About the role

As our Barista - Commercial Flavour Genius you will be responsible 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 Riyadh, KSA

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.

• 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