Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, May 05, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
About The Role
The Global Sourcing team brings high-quality, life-changing inputs to our clients at low cost as possible. We source over $70M worth of inputs to One Acre Fund's regional warehouses across 7 countries. As a team, we develop a flexible sourcing strategy, navigate within a complex and evolving regulatory environment and develop tight quality controls to guarantee inputs make it from supplier to One Acre Fund warehouse at the best possible price and quality. It is our job to represent the voices of our smallholder farmers at the top of the value chain, bringing them the same purchasing power, state of art quality control mechanisms, and in time deliveries as any large-scale agribusiness.
As a Seed Supply Chain Specialist, you will oversee the following Measurements in Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and Zambia:
• 5% cost savings
• 90+% on time and in full delivery (OTIF)
• No quality issues reaching the farmer

Responsibilities
You'll manage the team responsible for purchasing all seed for all of our One Acre Fund program countries. You'll achieve this by coaching, empowering, and supporting your team to:
• Work with country teams to set a high level purchasing strategy including market scanning, supplier selection process, negotiations and contracting.
• Bring high-quality seed on time and in full to all country clients as efficiently as possible.
• Mitigate seed supply chain changes and fuel year-over-year cost savings through supplier relationship management and seed industry connects.
• Lead seed partnerships with suppliers ensuring supply chain reliability.
• Support and integrate input procurement and partnerships for crop commercialization.
• Support the Rwanda Seed team in ensuring all seed is internally tested at Gabiro before distribution to farmers
• Guarantee standard controls and SOPs are followed, data are accurate and updated real-time.
• Set the seed team vision and improve becoming the most efficient team.
• Fuel personal growth through tailored coaching unleashing the full potential of your team members.

Qualifications
Across all roles, these are the general qualifications we look for. For this role specifically, you will have:
• 3+ years of experience in procurement or supply chain management.
• Experience coaching direct reports. Remote management experience.
• Enjoy collaborating, with good supplier management skills in using your to work.
• Experience in agriculture or the East African seed sector preferred but not strictly required.
• Fluent English and Kinyarwanda

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

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