Job Description

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the role

Reporting to the Head of Marketing, DaVinci Gourmet APMEA, this role will work closely with regional and sub-regional marketing, commercial, RDA, insights and customer-facing teams to develop menu applications, innovation concepts and activation tools that are practical, differentiated and commercially relevant. The role requires strong beverage and foodservice understanding, the ability to convert insights into actionable menu solutions, and confidence in partnering with internal teams, distributors and customers to bring DaVinci Gourmet innovation to life across APMEA.

Location: Singapore
Reporting to: Head of Marketing, DaVinci Gourmet APMEA

Key responsibilities

Develop and manage the regional DaVinci Gourmet menu and innovation agenda across APMEA, ensuring alignment with brand priorities, customer needs and commercial growth opportunities.
Translate market, customer, consumer and beverage trends into menu concepts, seasonal platforms, innovation ideas and customer-ready applications that support local market activation.
Develop customer-ready menu solutions, beverage recipes, application guides, selling tools and training materials that help commercial teams, distributors and customers understand and apply the DaVinci Gourmet portfolio effectively.
Build beverage application and training capability across APMEA by developing structured learning programmes, demonstration formats and practical toolkits for internal teams and distributor partners.
Support regional and market activation plans with differentiated menu ideas, innovation stories, customer experience content and product application recommendations.
Work closely with sub-regional teams to adapt innovation and menu platforms to local customer segments, channels, taste preferences and market maturity levels.
Engage customers and distributors through menu presentations, application demonstrations and innovation discussions that support new business opportunities.
Maintain a strong understanding of beverage trends, competitor activity, category development, customer menus and emerging foodservice occasions across APMEA.
Track performance and feedback on menu activations and innovation launches, using learnings to improve future concepts, tools and activation approaches.
Collaborate with marketing, commercial, RDA, insights, market teams and external partners to ensure menu, innovation and training outputs are commercially grounded, creative, scalable and aligned to DaVinci Gourmet's brand positioning.
Leverage Kerry's global menu expertise, tools and best practices to raise application fluency and consistency across APMEA markets.

Qualifications and skills

6-8 years of relevant experience in food and beverage, ideally within foodservice, beverages, coffee, ingredients or related B2B/B2B2C environments.
Strong understanding of beverage menu creation, product application and innovation, with the ability to translate trends, insights and customer needs into practical concepts, selling tools and activation materials.
Confident communicator with experience presenting concepts, product applications and customer solutions to internal stakeholders, distributors and customers.
Barista-trained, with 2-3 years of hands-on café operations experience preferred and practical barista and mixology capability across beverage preparation, recipe development, café workflow, equipment care, demonstrations and customer training relevant professional or food-safety certification is an advantage.
Proven project management capability in a regional, cross-functional or matrix environment.
Fluent English is required an additional language relevant to APMEA is an advantage.
Able to travel across the region as required.
Bachelor's degree in business, Marketing, Food Science, Culinary Arts, Hospitality or an equivalent discipline.