Location: Sulaimanyah
Job Type:
Permanent
Sectors:
Default
Closing Date:
2025-04-13
About vacancy
mselect is looking to hire an Agro Local Field Manager for an FMCG client in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. Candidates must have a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience. Fluency in English, Arabic and Kurdish is a must.
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
Measures
Requirements
*Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.
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.
