LEAF & BLENDS MANAGER (m/f/d)

Leaf & Blends Manager (m/f/d)

Job ID: 100718 / Location: Trier / Start: 07.07.25 / Contract type: permanent

To strengthen our Leaf & Blends team in the R&D area we are looking for a Leaf & Blends Manager (m/f/d) in permanent employment. 
 

Your job mission: 
Leaf & Blends holds responsibility for leaf grades and blends specifications. The role is to maintain and develop leaf grades and blends for our products in line with market and legislative requirements in accordance with R&D HQ guidelines and PD corresponded manuals. Leaf & Blends Manager is responsible for assigned leaf/blend maintenance and development in line with team and company objectives.  

Who are we? 

JTI is a leading international tobacco company with locations in more than 130 countries and world-famous brands such as Winston, Camel and American Spirit. With our brands Nordic Spirit, Logic and Ploom, we also focus on growth through innovations in the field of reduced risk products. In Germany, we are the largest employer in our industry with over 2,000 employees. 

As a multiple award-winning top employer, we offer an open and inclusive working environment with exciting tasks in a challenging environment. Flexible working concepts, diverse development opportunities and international career paths are part of our everyday life. Visit us at www.jti.com to find out more about JTI and what it's like to work for us.

Your tasks:

• Maintain leaf grades/blends in one or more factories ensuring quality and cost targets as well as ac-curacy and adherence to requirements and timelines
• Provide support of a "troubleshooting" nature, dealing with grades and blends issues in factories under the direct responsibility
• Develop and blend tobacco materials ensuring a blend concept, quality and cost targets, company/legal requirements and in order to meet consumer expectations
• Manage multiple leaf & blends projects, providing timely updates on progress, meeting goals and deadlines
• Contribute to company planning for leaf usage, inventory positions and purchase requirements in accordance with strategy agreed within R&D and with key stakeholders
• Provide expertise in the qualification of all tobacco types/varieties and collaborate with applicable functions in order to maintain all aspects of the JT Group's quality levels for quality consistency
• Maintain and develop leaf category descriptions and specifications and initiate item creation/maintenance within SAP
• Ensure that routine jobs are followed to defined work process in accordance with ISO processes management document, develop and improve L&B processes and tools ensuring alignment within L&B and cross-functional alignment as applicable

Your profile:

• Relevant educational background: University degree, preferably in agronomy, engineering or chemistry, or equivalent education
• Practical experience: At least five years of business practice in the tobacco industry in an international environment and excellent knowledge of tobacco supply and leaf buying and selling business
• Valuable knowledge: Understanding and demonstrated knowledge of grading, physical, chemical, sensory properties of main types of tobacco. Very good knowledge of four key elements of cigarette design with in-depth knowledge of the primary processing and sensory role of casing and flavor. Solid knowledge of the most common PC software applications incl. SAP and Process Management tools. Fluent in English, both written and spoken
• Special strengths: Excellent analytical and strategic thinking as well as good communication and presentation skills
• Suitable personality: A high level of team orientation

Your benefits

• Your team: You will work in an open and international working environment with approx. 60 nations at the Trier site.
• Your remuneration: Above-average pay including 13th and 14th monthly salary and bonus as well as annual reviews. Individual company pension scheme and capital-forming benefits.
• Your meals: Our subsidized company canteen and numerous snack and coffee vending machines ensure your physical well-being.
• Your appreciation: You will receive regular feedback from us and, as your personal safety is important to us, we also protect you in your private life with our JTI accident insurance.
• Your work-life balance: You should enjoy your work! That's why we offer you 30 days of vacation for personal relaxation. You also have the option of doing mobile work in Germany for 50% of your working hours per month.
• Your development: We focus on your personal development. We support you with a wide range of internal training courses as well as external training and development opportunities that are tailored specifically to you

Have we aroused your interest?

Apply directly with your complete application documents (CV, cover letter & references) stating your earliest possible starting date (Job ID 100718).

Diversity & Inclusion

We want everyone at JTI to be themselves and develop their full potential, because each and every one of us makes a valuable contribution to the success of the company and the location in Germany. We live and promote diversity, equality and inclusion accordingly. We have local employee groups and networks, such as the PRIDE Chapter Germany or the togetHER network for female employees, in which committed colleagues are involved, and we support a wide range of projects in our local area. For this and many other activities in the area of diversity & inclusion, we have already been awarded the Global Equality Standard by Ernst & Young.

Sustainability & Commitment

We have particularly close ties to the Trier region and the greater Cologne area through our two locations and want to make a significant contribution to a high quality of life, e.g., through annual clean-up campaigns on the Rhine and Moselle and as a long-standing partner of the Cologne Green Foundation, we are committed to the preservation and expansion of the city's green spaces. Renewable energies are also part of our sustainability goals, which is why we are investing in the expansion of the Bescheid Süd wind farm, located 20 kilometers east of our Trier site, in order to secure green electricity for the region and for our production at the Trier plant. We are constantly reducing the amount of plastic used in the packaging of our classic tobacco products, thus saving tons of plastic waste.

Find out more about us at: https://www.jti.com/de/europe/germany/top-arbeitgeber