Tea Blender

Job description

Job Title:

Tea Blending & Quality Manager

Department:

Procurement

Profession (Marketing, Finance, etc.):

Supply Chain

Work Level:

WL1E

Location (City, Country):

Dubai

Main Job Purpose:
(A concise statement setting out the main purpose and objectives of the job.)

The Tea Blender is responsible for issuing blends as per SU requirements. The job also requires to evaluate incoming tea quality on an organoleptic basis. Working with their respective cluster Tea Blending & Quality Manager, they will monitor stocks and with the Tea Service Delivery Manager ensure all stocks are tracked till consumption. The blenders will adhere to blend cost targets and forecast.

Key Accountabilities:
(Please describe the responsibilities and end results that would be expected.)

· Responsible for issuing blend sheets to SU's as per plan.
· Responsible for incoming quality evaluation and its use.
· Ensure all inbound tea deliveries are tasted and fully updated in SAP
· Responsible for delivery of quality of all Blends as per the PBBS.
· Support Blend Demand requirements enabling 98.5% Customer Service delivery against the forecast.
· Fully manage Tea Tasting Saleroom to ensure full tasting programme is carried out To be responsible for weekly update and approval of demand plans into APS from Europe
· Monitor stock performance against agree norms
· Deliver high accuracy against blend forecasts
· Own and ensure all static data for Tea specific SAP and APS systems is updated on time and in full.

Professional Skills:
(The minimum requirement from the JSP should be described, incl degrees/qualifications preferred.)

Please refer to Job skills profile

Experience Required:
(Please detail essential and desirable experience, including no. of years.)

ESSENTIAL
·  Fully Operational Tea Taster at least 1-5 years with below requirements
· Is able to assess and evaluate in detail tea samples at differing brew strengths eg consumer strength, technical strength
· Is able to apply and adapt best practice eg Tealingo rules.
· Is engaged in the ongoing development of GTP/Tealingo
· Classifies tea samples into Tealingo items as a matter of course
· Scores above the minimum pass mark in an unguided taste test on average over a 1-year period

·  Fully Operational Tea Blending Skills with below requirements
· Evaluates the new blend per Good Tasting Practice to pass/fail vs a blend specification or standard
· Evaluates blends on both physical, visual and sensory parameters
· Understands and exploits the interaction between different tea types to achieve a blend end result
· Understands and exploits the interaction between base blend and additives such as aroma/flavour (choice, dosage etc)
· Can construct a blend in a live system in accordance with a prescribed recipe and/or specification
· Can make the necessary changes to a blend if it has not passed the evaluation to ensure it meets the specification

·  Fully Operational in Tea Blend SAP
·  Proficient in using the APS planning tool

Travel:
(Please make it clear if the job will require travel within the country or abroad and give an idea of how often the candidate will need to be away from home.)

As per job/site requirements.

Contacts:
(Please list any internal and external contacts arising from the job.)

Internal:
Procurement:
· Tea Portfolio Procurement teams
· Cluster Procurement team, geography

Supply Chain:
· Manufacturing
· Quality
· Inbound Logistics
· Category Quality Manager

IT

R&D
· R&D Programme Mangers
· Tea Standards Manager

Reporting Channel:
(Please show where the job lies within the department, including superior(s) & subordinate(s).)