Background:

The role coordinates the execution of commercial seed production activities which includes SAP Grower Accounting maintenance, Velocity/ Scouts / Kinexis maintenance, contracting, planting, detasseling and harvesting operations.

Key account relationship management of Tanzania’s main established seed producers and ensuring 97% grower retention rates are maintained.

Responsibilities:

• Lead building and maintaining a reliable and sustainable grower base, to ensure reliable supply of commercial seed to the commercial team within Tanzania.
• Lead analytics for field processes, to ensure the correct decisions for planning and liaise closely with Production Manager, Field and Plant Management teams.
• Lead the planning and coordination of production activities, Grower contracting, Planting, Detasseling and Harvesting and distribution across the geographies.
• Lead HSE efforts according ISO45001 standards focusing on legal compliance and identifying safety risks applying the HIRA methodology.
• Lead the development, update and compliance with quality assurance standards and management system set by ISO9001:2015
• Create, manage and continual tracking and compliance of the Operational budgets.
• Identify and deploy operational improvement, tracking and best practices and processes to continually seek improvements in reliability and cost efficiencies.
• Promote and coordinate the Velocity data management tool, to effectively analyze and utilize field data to manage productions effectively. This extends to new technology deployment.
• Manage Velocity and SAP data, to ensure correctness for contracting and field processes.
• Utilize onePSS as a platform to implement best practices, for example, Visual Management to track Operations KPI`s on Tier 2 and 3 meetings.
• Promote and implement best practices with focus on Quality and Reliability to improve them every year.

Qualifications:

• Minimum a diploma or bachelor degree in agronomy or 10 year experience in seed production.
• Fluent in English
• MS Office software (Excel, E-mail, Word, Project etc.)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Results focused with ability to work on own initiative
• Strong teamwork development capability (flexibility to work across the areas and positively influence others)
• Establish clear direction
• Effective and timely decision making

• Lead building and maintaining a reliable and sustainable grower base, to ensure reliable supply of commercial seed to the commercial team within Tanzania.
• Lead analytics for field processes, to ensure the correct decisions for planning and liaise closely with Production Manager, Field and Plant Management teams.
• Lead the planning and coordination of production activities, Grower contracting, Planting, Detasseling and Harvesting and distribution across the geographies.
• Lead HSE efforts according ISO45001 standards focusing on legal compliance and identifying safety risks applying the HIRA methodology.
• Lead the development, update and compliance with quality assurance standards and management system set by ISO9001:2015
• Create, manage and continual tracking and compliance of the Operational budgets.
• Identify and deploy operational improvement, tracking and best practices and processes to continually seek improvements in reliability and cost efficiencies.
• Promote and coordinate the Velocity data management tool, to effectively analyze and utilize field data to manage productions effectively. This extends to new technology deployment.
• Manage Velocity and SAP data, to ensure correctness for contracting and field processes.
• Utilize onePSS as a platform to implement best practices, for example, Visual Management to track Operations KPI`s on Tier 2 and 3 meetings.
• Promote and implement best practices with focus on Quality and Reliability to improve them every year.

• Minimum a diploma or bachelor degree in agronomy or 10 year experience in seed production.
• Fluent in English
• MS Office software (Excel, E-mail, Word, Project etc.)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Results focused with ability to work on own initiative
• Strong teamwork development capability (flexibility to work across the areas and positively influence others)
• Establish clear direction
• Effective and timely decision making