Operations Manager Edible Nuts Hongkong

We are currently looking for an exceptional candidate as an Operations Manager of Edible Nuts for the Asian markets. This new opening is primarily focused on trading of edible nuts, both the procurement from origin countries and sales to Industrial-/  and Ingredient– customers particularly in China, but also other Asian markets.

As secondary function, you will also be involved in Operations and Quality Assurance  of edible nuts. The optimal candidate brings a few years of hands-on experience in the dried food sector in Asian markets. Your basis is in our Hongkong-office. You will need to travel about 20 % of your time, both to suppliers in USA and Africa, and customers in China.

• Role objectives:
• Coordinate and operate our trading positions, and Risk-management
• Drive sales activities in China, and other
• Asian countries
• Control and supervise internal processes of all
• operations and back-office works, including trading, qualities, logistics, admin/finance.
• Oversee our processing factory in Vietnam (procurement/processing/qualities)
• Develop and implement growth strategies in our Asian operations
• Active contribution to everyday life of business
• You bring:
• Contacts to buyers/customers within the edible nut industry
• University degree in Business, Economics or related field5-10 of years of work experience in sales and marketing
• Proven hands-on attitude and outgoing personality
• Fluent in English and Business proficiency in Mandarin
• Willingness to travel
• What you can expect:
• High exposure to international community in food and commodity sector
• Exceptional potential to grow within the company
• Interdisciplinary approach to business
• Reporting to our Asian operations director
• We are looking forward to your application !Send us your complete application to:hr@swissgourmet.com, Including:
• CV, diploma and any supporting documents
• About Swiss Gourmet Ltd.:Since founding SWISS GOURMET in Switzerland in 2001, we have quickly become a well known quality supplier of edible nuts and dried fruit.
• With 6 processing factories and 3 procurement & sales offices around the globe, we are present in the most important producer- as well as consumer-markets.
• Our food safety certified factories are supplying the food-/ and ingredient industry with high quality products.

Thanks to our strong vertical integration, we can offer our nut-products "from tree to table" along the whole value chain.

We believe in relationship and trust as the key ingredients to future growth.SWISS GOURMET strives for constant improvement of quality and service, in order to reach our ultimate goal: sharing success with our business partners.