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Who We Are

Tiger Brands Limited is the largest JSE listed, branded food company in South Africa. Tiger Brands is respected for its innovation and high performance culture. Tiger Brands prides itself in employing confident individuals who demonstrate energy, passion, commitment, drive and have an innovative mindset. Tiger Brands' success is all about our brands and the passionate people building those brands. Graduate recruitment plays an integral role in building Tiger Brands’ talent pipeline, and each year we employ new graduates in different disciplines across the organisation.

Tiger Brands is South Africa's largest food manufacturer with a broad portfolio of leading food, beverage, personal care and home care brands that are retailed both locally and exported worldwide. Tiger Brands employs in excess of 10 000 people at over 70 sites throughout Africa.


Our Core Competence

Tiger Brands has a track record of developing, acquiring and growing iconic brands through brand building and innovation, and so satisfying a range of consumer, shopper and customer needs. We have traditionally focused on the South African market and provided consistently superior returns for our investors.

We are making progress in expanding the footprint of the business and becoming a recognised ‘multi-country, local player’ in selected emerging markets, through our strategy of selective acquisition and growing our FMCG brands that are desired by the majority of consumers.


Our Organisational Culture
Tiger Brands’ employees are passionate, energetic and committed to delivering results in a high performance and fast-paced environment. Employees boast a diverse knowledge and experience of the FMCG category; a wealth of experience across the value chain; best in breed management, internal controls and processes; and a world-class Supply Chain philosophy. Employees reap the benefits of a wide range of opportunities locally and internationally to develop their careers, knowledge and experience.

Tiger Brands’ remuneration philosophy is focused on competitive remuneration as well as reward and benefits for employees based on individual performance. This ensures a high performance culture. Policies allowing for flexible working conditions afford employees the opportunity to structure their working day to achieve work/life balance. Outstanding employees are recognised for their superior contribution through the Tiger Stripes Recognition programme.

Vision

To be the world’s most admired branded consumer packaged goods company in emerging markets.


Our Group Structure


domestic_food.png  The Domestic Food division is a leading manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of food brands. The division has brands in the following categories: grains, groceries, snacks & treats, beverages, value added products, and out of home.  
 hpc.png The Home and Personal Care (HPC) division is a leading manufacturer, distributor and marketer of personal care, babycare and homecare brands.  
 fishing.png In the Fishing division Oceana is involved in the fishing, processing, marketing and trading of a wide variety of marine species and cold storage operations.

Sea Harvest Corporation is involved in deep-sea fishing, fresh and frozen fish and the processing and marketing of fish products.
 
 international__exports.png Tiger Brands has an Exports and International division with direct and indirect interests in international food businesses in Chile, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Cameroon.  


Some Of Our Brands

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What Do We Offer Our Employees?


Graduate recruitment plays an integral role in building the Tiger Brands talent pipeline. The company seeks graduates who are self-motivated team players, efficient, flexible and able to think on their feet in an ever-changing world.

There are a wide range of careers available at Tiger Brands, across the disciplines of Engineering, Technical, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Logistics, Procurement, Customer Management, Shopper Marketing, Marketing, Research & Development, Finance, Information Technology and so on.

Through its significant operations both locally and internationally, Tiger Brands can offer its employees excellent career development opportunities to either advance their career within a specific business or laterally across different functions.

In addition to the graduate programme, Tiger Brands is committed to attracting and developing young talent in the organisation through the learnerships we offer to employees and the workplace experience opportunities available to national diploma students.

Tiger Brands young talent projects focus on addressing the ‘scarce skills’ shortage experienced by the organisation in the supply chain, engineering, technical, customer management and shopper marketing fields.

Who Are We Looking For?

grad_programme.pngSuccessful candidates in the graduate programme should have the desire to build a career with a leading branded FMCG company, would have a sound academic record at an accredited institution and recently have completed their 3 or 4 year tertiary qualification in a field of study aligned to our business requirements (see below). Graduates must have displayed the potential for high achievement and innovation throughout their qualification, have not worked full time (more than 1 year, not including workplace experience) in their field of study, must be computer literate in MS Word and Excel and have a valid driver’s licence.


The type of qualifications that are viewed favourably to enter the graduate programme include:
• BCom with majors in Logistics, Marketing Management, Supply Chain
• BEng/BSc Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
• BSc Biochemistry, Chemistry, Food Science, Nutrition and Food Science, Pharmacy
• BTech Engineering (Electrical/Industrial/Mechanical) Biotechnology, Food Science, Food Technology


The Graduate Recruitment Process

employees.png  In line with the Tiger Brands Employment Equity strategies, preference will be given to Employment Equity candidates that meet our requirements. Applications from international students are welcomed to fill the talent pipeline for our international operations.

Applications for the 2012 Tiger Brands Graduate Programme open on the 1st June 2011 and close on the 31st August 2011.
 
 
For more information please visit our website.

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