Job Objective
Responsible for monitoring, developing, and ensuring the plant local potato volumes and managing potato quality, supporting the plants to achieve finished product quality targets and co-ordinate with farms and purchasing on the quality delivers, strategic plan for potato and seed, and long & short-term deals.
Accountabilities
- Forecast demand and create local supplies plans that ensure the availability of quality potatoes throughout the year as per production planning schedules
- Manage Potato supply from field to production to meet production requirements (Volume, Timeline, Quality, Flavour) with optimum cost
- Manage CAPEX, and project to serve local potato growing
- Ensuring identification and thereafter sustaining uninterrupted local supplies of Potato for the plant
- Identify/ create/ develop/ grow/ sustain new as well as existing local agro contract/non-contract farming pockets
- Training and mentoring of farmers, including best practices related to sustainable agriculture
- Developing agriculture schedules, budgets, and schedules
- Take samples and test for nutritional deficiencies, diseases, or other changes
- Developing better planting, planting, and harvesting techniques, and improving crop yields
- Visiting agricultural fields, diagnosing and treating diseases, and inappropriate agricultural methods
- Acting as primary contact point for local farmers/ vendors, obtaining technical guidance, and conducting quality checks
- Identify the new local vendors/ pockets that would complement/ supplement the existing plan and increase penetration of the program and create opportunities to increase quality and quantity
- Maintain an ongoing relationship with the farmers, and suppliers
- Get agreements signed off by local vendors
- Drive the Agro capability development agenda for the agro region – driving the agro-technological knowledge sharing and competency building within the team
- Monitor and ensure compliance with the plan vs actual
- Follow up with farmers in outside fields
- Respect our code of conduct
Measures
- Potato Delivers Vs Plan
- Potato price control
- Cost control
- Stock management
- Headcount optimization
Requirements
- Deep Agronomy knowledge (experience with potato)
- Experience in Fertilizer, Seed, Crop Protection products
- Incident Management Skills.
- Time management.
- Efficient Management of Resources
*Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.