Job Overview:
This position will be responsible for quantity and quality in selecting and purchasing beans, maintaining sustainable relationships with fermenters/ pod-farmers, ensuring Marou has the best cocoa beans.
Responsibilities:
Cacao bean selection and purchasing:
- Responsible for quality in bean selection/ purchasing (based on Marou Internal Standard)
- Responsible for quality in improving fermentation processes (Giving advice for farmers based on Marou Guideline)
- Responsible for good practices of pre-fermentation process to ensure best fermentation.
Cacao Sourcing Development:
- Survey and update the bean supply and market
- Survey, expand, discover new potential pod farmers / fermenters/ areas of cacao
- Evaluation of current practice, productivity, farming issue base on Internal Guideline / expert advice.
Relationship management:
- Maintain and develop the relationship with fermenters/ pod-farmers
- Well management of cacao network from farmer to fermenter.
- Coordinate with related departments to participate in projects to develop cacao beans
- Solid communication with and provide support to trainer/ expert (if any)/ Line Manager
Contract/policy execution:
- Responsibility for execution of purchase contracts, bonus policies.
- Solid communication with, and/or provide support to finance and logistics team
Sustainability Development:
- Support for implementation of sustainability cacao development projects and strategy in terms of agronomy specialty in cacao tree, and quality for cacao bean fermentation.
- Understand the risks of quality variation and proactively solve the raised issues regard to quality and farmer relationship.
- Training of farming practices, fermentation process to reach the standard quality bean.
- Participate in the cacao traceability project by delivering training to fermenters on the use of mobile applications and ensuring the maintenance of the system platform FA mapping by Traceverified
- Other tasks assigned by Manager/Head of Department.
Requirements:
- Graduated from University majoring in Food Technology, Biotechnology, Agriculture, Plant Science
- 1-2 years of experience working in the agriculture field
- Sensory ability is an advantage
- Interest in sustainable agriculture and responsible sourcing.
- Willingness to travel as often as required
- Fluent in English (both written & spoken)
- Proficiency in MS Office (word, powerpoint, excel,...)
- Good communication, negotiation & teamwork skills
- Honest, responsible, adventurous.
Working time: Monday - Friday
Working location: Binh Chieu Industrial Park, Thu Duc City, HCMC.
