Seed Manager

Company

BOORTMALT is a global malting company with a 3 million tonnes production capacity. The group is present on 5 continents with 27 malting plants. Boortmalt’s expertise is widely acknowledged by brewers, distillers, and food industries, who rely on the supply of top-quality barley malts.

The Boortmalt Group is a subsidiary of the agricultural and agribusiness cooperative Axereal. Our relationship with Axereal, Europe’s largest grain cooperative, ensures us access to high-quality barley year-round.

Boortmalt Ethiopian is seeking passionate candidates for the position. If you are dedicated, experienced, and motivated to work in a dynamic environment, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

Why Work For Boortmalt?

We offer an attractive salary and benefits package and as part of a global organization can offer career opportunities internationally. As Masters of Malt, we want to be a great employer, focusing on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health, and wellbeing. We live our values, putting people at the heart of what we do.

Companies Core Value

“Strive” - our ambition is to be the best maltster that's why every day we commit to challenge ourselves to achieve the highest level.

“Care” - our strength is magnificent when we care for our earth, our colleagues, and our business partners. We encourage trust, respect, and treat each other with respect. We believe that Diversity makes us stronger.

“Inspire” - We adopt a long-term orientation delivering sustainable performance through innovation and digitization, becoming praised Masters of Malt.

“Explore” – thinking out of the box and embracing pioneer ideas to become a source of motivation, we like challenging the status quo to develop full potential.

Key responsibility

• The Seed Manager is in charge of the development and the management of Boortmalt supply chain seed supply.

• Define annually the seed supply strategy of the company

• Identify the seeds needs in terms of quantities and varieties in close collaboration with the supply chain manager and   Boortmalt’s sourcing manager

• Identify the sources of seeds.

• Define the budget of the seed activity.

• Manage the seed supply

• Manage the relationships with breeders so do with basic and possibly pre-basic seeds suppliers (local and foreign): negotiation, representation contract, relevant declarations, etc.

• Manage the relationships with the local seed producers for both spot purchase and contracted production: negotiation, contract management, etc.

• Follow, agronomically, the seed production in order to guarantee of the quality and the quantity of the seed supply.

• Manage all marketing and commercial work needed in order to guarantee the distribution of all the seeds produced and/or purchased in close collaboration with the supply chain department: field day organization, documentation, etc.

• Manage all the post production processes: seed cleaning, certification and logistics until the delivery to farmers’ organizations.

• Manage the administrative work liked to the seed multiplication including all legal and administrative documents required.

• Closely follow all the steps in terms of deadlines in order to guarantee the delivery on time of the seeds.

• Financial and administrative follow up of the seed activity.

• Collection of the financial and administrative documents (contracts, payment requests, etc.)

• Prepare the relevant letters and make them signed by the head of agriculture.

Qualifaictions:

• Bachelor Degree in Agriculture (Agronomy, seeds science, plant science, crop protection, crop science  and other relative professional.
• -Six years relevant experience in related Industry. 

How To Apply

If you meet the minimum requirement, please send your updated CV to jobs.boortmaltethiopia@gmail.com. Kindly put the position you are applying for on the subject of your email, and refrain from sending additional credentials other than your CV.