Job Description

DO YOU HAVE THE APPETITE TO GROW YOUR MAGIC?

Consumers everywhere are increasingly conscious of the quality of the food they eat. Puratos develops, produces, and distributes a unique range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers who demand the very highest quality.

Founded in Belgium in 1919,From humble beginnings to worldwide success, join us on our journey and discover our history and heritage.

We’ve evolved from a father-and-son start-up in Belgium, to a global group with more than 9000 employees, 93 innovation centers, and more than 65 manufacturing operations across 81 countries to date. It’s with great pride that we look back on this century of hard work, courage, and innovation. Thank you for making it all possible and let’s continue building the next 100 years of shared success!

Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit, and core value our communities, is what makes working at Puratos so magical.

Based at City of Polokwane to further strengthen our local Sales team, we are currently seeking a:

TELESALES – (Polokwane, South Africa)

Reporting to the Sales Manager, the successful candidate for this key function will be responsible for:

• Liaising with all customers, must drive to achieve sales against budget, manage and execute all sales plans against business strategy.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Product knowledge of bakery, patissirie and chocolate industry.
• Follow a daily customer calling cycle to obtain, capture, process and follow-up on orders.
• Prepare and control quotation and follow-up therefore.
• Ensure customer data and contract pricing are kept updated.
• Assist customer with queries
• Coordinate with other departments for the orders processing, information processing and requests from customers.
• Other tasks assigned by Manager.

PROFILE

• Matric (Grade 12) and a National Diploma in Sales/Marketing or Food Science
• Experience: 3-5 years in Sales and Bakery sector; B2B is preferable; Food sector (FMCG Market) is preferable
• Languages: English is a prerequisite
• Computer literacy: Office computer (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
• Other expertise: Business & result driven, presentation skill, strong interpersonal skills: establishes easily contacts, sales and negotiation skills, team player.

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

• Collaborating effectively: spontaneously helps team members, networking, sharing info/results.
• Communicating effectively: actively listening, negotiating, reporting provides clear explanations that are easy to follow.
• Driving performances: results-driven, planning & prioritizing, solving problems
• Improving continuously: adapts flexibly to changes, open to learn from feedback
• Managing customer needs: understanding customer environment builds and maintains relationship of customers, implement most suitable solutions that meet customer expectations.

OFFER

Puratos provides a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment that encourages our people to take initiatives and bring ideas that will contribute to the success of the company. Of course, Puratos offers a competitive package (salary, and market related benefits) but additionally, offers you a position that you can further develop and shape.

Interested persons who meet the requirements may apply at

www.chipkinspuratos.co.za

CLOSING DATE: 26 July 2026

NB: For our internal employees please use Success Factors to put in your application(s) except for Warehouse and Production Floor staff. Thank You.

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