A. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
(1) Building the development strategy of the Material area
- Building the development strategy of the Material area in the medium and long term;
- Setting up agricultural projects: surveying, planning to develop material areas, calculating investment efficiency for projects by year, yield, and price;
- Preparing reports on the raw material market developments, forecasting the raw material market situation, advising the buying price of raw materials and the selling price of by-products to the Board of Directors (BODs);
- Building and controlling the farming process according to the standards required by the company, directly participating in and supervising this process;
- Developing and controlling the standards of control norms related to agriculture: production cost/ha; promulgating appropriate cost norms for farmers;
- Planning to implement agricultural projects after receiving investment policy approval from the Company.
(2) Organizing the development of the Material area and ensuring the supply for production
- Building and advising on the investment policy, and buying of raw materials for each period;
- Building a plan to purchase raw materials according to the production plan of the Company;
- Managing and coordinating yield, checking the quality of raw materials related to buying activities;
- Managing and monitoring the buying activities weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly;
- Developing and promulgating a system of regulatory documents related to the development and buying of raw materials.
Investing, buying from the Company's raw material areas
- Planning and implementing investment and buying activities at the AOP price approved by the Company;
Investing, buying from farmers' material area
- Consulting, and resolving customer feedback (farmers) related to researched and tested farming techniques and methods;
- Monitoring and controlling the mandatory requirements of farming processes according to the standards of the Company and the agriculture industry;
- Carrying out testing, experimenting, receiving, and transferring technology management from the Company;
- Managing and controlling related terms: contract, acceptance, payment, capital disbursement & recovery of investment debt from state projects.
(3) Building and issuing investment-buying policies, and at the same time be responsible for managing and supervising the acceptance - disbursement of investment capital and debt recovery
(4) Activities of foreign relations for agricultural development
- Leading, planning, and implementing civil activities (to improve relations with farmers);
- Responsible for building external relationships to ensure logistics activities for the agricultural sector (police, customs, border guards, relevant departments).
- Participating, and proposing the scientific and technical research of the community & external partners;
- Developing financial solutions (with financial funds, banks... if necessary) to serve the objectives of Agriculture and support farmers;
(5) Performance management and resource development
- Maintaining the supply coordination, optimizing the cost during growth;
- Controlling the buying - logistics costs within the approved budget;
- Supply chain’s operating management and optimization of the Division/Company’s assets for supply activities;
- Building, managing, and improving the KPI norms;
- Advising, proposing, and criticizing the strategies of the Administrative Council and BODs;
- Catching up on the market situation and proposing solutions to improve competitiveness;
- Coordinating with Human Resources and related units for training and development for the human of Divisions;
(6) Risk management
- Building and deploying solutions to protect and forecast legal risks for the Division
- Managing & coordinating with functional units to build the risk control process in the operation of the Division;
- Implementing processes and ensuring the execution quality;
- Controlling and minimizing the risks of the division and inter-department risks;
- Developing & controlling the risk management items/criteria (Guideline Risk Management) of the Division;
(7) Reporting
- Periodically report to the Administrative Council, General Director/BODs as assigned from each period;
- The recommendation report to improve capacity and optimize operations as required;
- Analytical reports, products, services, and operation issues of the Division as a requirement;
- Representing the company to negotiate and sign contracts according to authority.
B. REQUIREMENTS:
- University graduate: major in Agriculture - Forestry/Economics;
- At least 12 years of experience in the position of Agricultural Director of large-scale companies;
- Knowledge of in-depth agricultural management;
- Understanding the process of developing raw material areas and buying agricultural products for domestic and foreign markets;
- Understanding the technical characteristics of sugarcane;
- Project management skills;
- Skills in setting up operating procedures for the entire agriculture operation;
- Ability to build the annual plan;
- Ability to think strategically;
- Ability to influence senior management and board;
- High-performance and dynamic team development skills;
- Experience in leading and developing internal and external relationships;
- Good civic skills;
- Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills;
- In-depth understanding of Lean production models and good practices, TPM, 5S, KAIZEN, Safety;
- Good communication and presentation skills;
- Effective budget management and human resource management skills;
- Ability to plan strategies to develop organic sugarcane growing areas and households;
- Knowledge of agricultural legislation, especially the sugar industry;
- Understanding of agricultural science for sugarcane cultivation in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, developments in climate change affecting agricultural areas;
- Understanding of the traditional sugarcane market with supplies coming from different regions in the region, demand, and market prices;
- Know the sugarcane market in Asia to develop appropriate buying;
- Skills in coordination and implementation of effective control tools for agricultural activities such as farming household management program, cane material buying program through bidding channel (E.Bidding);
- Good communication and negotiation skills to negotiate with farmers, processing units, and cooperatives;
- Certificates ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, ISO 17025, BRC, ORGANIC, KOSHER, HALAL, IFS- VP, Engineering, ERP, CMMS
Interested candidates can send their resumes to ngocmai.tran@employmentvietnam.com for a confidential discussion.
