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Mel Ambrose

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Key Account Manager at ADM
📍 Johannesburg Metropolitan Area, South Africa

Mel Ambrose is a Key Account Manager for Nutrition at ADM, focused on strategic business growth and long-term international client relationships. She leverages her experience from roles at IMCD Group, Agridient, and Kerry Group to drive results. A graduate of Durban University of Technology, people who have worked with her describe her as optimistic and highly professional.

Her personal and professional life is driven by a deep passion for flavours and their power to connect cultures, evoke emotions, and make everyday moments memorable. This interest in the sensory aspect of food appears to be a core motivation in her career within the nutrition and ingredients industry.

She was entrusted to launch and single-handedly develop the entire South African subsidiary for her former employer, Agridient B.V.

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Experience
31 Years
Current Role
Key Account Manager
Job Level
Middle
Location
Johannesburg Metropolitan Area, South Africa
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Flavour Innovation
States that her passion has always been flavours and their power to connect cultures and evoke emotions, viewing her return to this field as a "dream job".
Strategic Growth
Her stated career objective is to use her experience to grow a business strategically, a skill she demonstrated by launching a subsidiary for a previous employer.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Key Account Manager
ADM
7-2015 - 7-2025
PRINCIPAL MANAGER FOOD & NUTRITION
IMCD Group
8-2012 - 6-2015
Sales Manager South Africa
Agridient B.V.
6-2007 - 7-2012
Key Account Manager
Kerry Group
6-2007 - 7-2012
Key Account Manager
Cargill Flavour Systems
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Education
1993 - 1997
Bachelor's Degree
Durban University of Technology
1988 - 1991
High School
Buffelsdale Secondary
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