Agriculture Manager: Musina needed at Tiger Brands
Job title : Agriculture Manager: Musina
Job Location : Limpopo,
Deadline : May 23, 2024
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WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Maintain Systems and Good Agricultural Practices for procurement of factory tomatoes
- Technical agricultural support to nurseries and producers with AVCASA and BASOS as minimum standards
- Procurement of raw material that meet required prescribed quality specifications
- Quality management in order to achieve positive yields – both field and factory yields
- Ensure that procedures (supplier quality assurance for the farmer are drawn-up and followed by conducting audits
- Ensure all fresh produce received free from pesticides residues Assist with technical advice
- Adherence to Musina annual MPS
- Sound volume estimation capabilities and Price mandating process
- Management of planting and delivery scheduling inline with factory capacity
- Management and Control of credit supplied to producers
- Development of effective, compliant and energetic agricultural team
- Developing and maintaining good producer relationships
- Must be a seasoned negotiator
- Applying Problem solving techniques and Settlement of disputes
- Must be able to work autonomous – trustworthy
- Draft and manage agricultural annual budget
- Development and implementation of successful BEE programme for raw material supply
- Trial plots and cultivar evaluation and development
- Innovations to save cost
- Manage and control all agricultural and nursery administration
- Container (bulk bins) management and control
- Representing and informed participation with all industry role players
- Mediator between Tiger, producers and industry role players
- Volume risk mitigation
QUALIFICATIONS
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE TABLE
Key attributes and competencies
- Education: Relevant Tertiary degree
- Producer selection based on GAP principals
- Full adherence to MRL and food safety principals
- Managing scheduled sowing and pulling of seedlings with nurseries
- Pre seasonal contracts to be signed and in place for nurseries and producers
- Drafting tomato planting and delivery schedules
- Transport and bin management from depots and producers
- Compiling and management of Agri-budget
- Determination of annual raw material prices and payments to producers by means of comparative input cost calculations
- Managing constant raw material flow to units
- Managing quality and healthy floor stock levels of raw material
- Manage and develop dynamic agri-team
- Full compliance to annual volume requirement or Musina MPS
How to Apply for this Offer
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