Senior Manager - Agro Development

• Crop Protocol

• Co-create, implement, and review larger strategic special projects
• Leading the Field agronomists in their day-to-day operations and carrying out monthly reviews to check the monthly proceedings.
• Drive, develop, and foster a strong ABI culture of continuous improvement within the Agro Team.
• Broadening the vision and operation of our field demonstration projects - in order to make it a center of visual demonstration, showcasing all the best practices at one point, and a centre to calculate the Farm Income
• Planning and organizing Growers Day in India
• Overall budget management of the program

• Monitoring the overall farmers relationship Management
• Managing the Mandi/Vendor Relationship to ensure Supply Security
• Driving external partnerships along with the field agronomists, partnership supervisor and research agronomist
• Making critical reports and presentations to external partners and stakeholders
• Partnership Development- Bringing new partnerships that can support and upscale the overall development of the program
• Be the driver of reputation with all external stakeholders including working on creating external communications material

• Ensuring integrated working with the research, B&Q, raw material & the larger procurement team
• Work in tandem with the R&D team, and to ensure that knowledge flow takes place smoothly between the two teams
• Collaborate with the legal and corporate affairs team on a continuous basis to understand legal compliance and its impact to the business Subsequently work with internal and external legal support for filing and managing of Agro operations in the country
• Working closely with GBR team for Data Analysis of Commercials Production
• Supporting Field Agronomist in identifying the most suitable growing regions for malt barley cultivation.

Procurement Process

• Ensuring the smooth Procurement operations and creation of effective Pricing and Buyback Policy
• Drive a focus on Barley quality, and create the best-in-class barley growing and procurement program
• Ensure a reliable supply of high-quality raw materials through local sourcing and competitive commercial terms

• Global Procurement and Agriculture colleagues
• Procurement Raw material team in India and Zone
• Agro Research & Development team
• Legal & Corporate Affairs team
• Global Barley Research team
• Corporate Communication Team
• Brewing & Quality team

• Existing partners for knowledge building, up-skilling, program quality growth, etc
• Scoping new and proposed partners for the overall development of the program

• Minimum MSc in Agriculture / MBA in Agro Business
• 5+ years of work experience will be preferred.
• Experience in managing teams will be preferred.
• Experience working with farmers to understand major challenges in a production environment
• Familiarity with small grains production practices, with a perspective on how to improve crop productivity and work in a collaborative mode with the farmers.
• Must have experience in developing, implementing, and running agro-business programs.
• Understanding of working with farmer co-operatives/producer organizations will be preferred.
• Developing partnerships relevant to the internal needs of the program and team
• Ability to work in a team by taking everyone along and effectively managing multiple projects & initiatives.
• Previous experience with research and development teams will be preferred.
• Candidates with experience in managing a team of agronomists and field agri officers will be preferred.
• Proficiency with computers, MS office & diagnostic computer/agro software
• Experience in presenting business proposals and budget proposals
• Valid driver s license & willing to travel
• Needs to overcome socioeconomic and cultural barriers to understand the core of the issues being faced by our farmers and team on the field
• Unwavering focus on quality, ethics, and a policy of taking no-shortcuts