COMPANY DESCRIPTION
The Soufflet Group is a French family-owned business which is collecting and adding value to agricultural raw materials through industrial milling and malting among other activities. France’s top private cereal collector, the Group is also a major player in supplying inputs to farmers cultivating various field crops.
In malting, it is a front-rank world player on the malt market with 28 malt plants in Europe, Latin America, and Asia, located at the heart of the barley producing regions.
Varietal selection, seed multiplication, choosing the best quality barley for its malt plants and the precision of its manufacturing process all enable it to produce the finest malt for its brewer customers.
Soufflet has started its operation in Ethiopia in 2017 and is setting up a manufacturing unit and the associated value-chain, aiming to source locally 100% of its malting barley needs. To develop its procurement plan and build the value-chain, Soufflet is looking to hire Field Executive on the malting barley value chain.
https://www.soufflet.com/en/Malthouse
JOB DESCRITPION
Reports to the Barley Procurement Manager and to the Agronomy Manager
Scope of Work
The malting barley Field Executive is in charge of establishing and maintaining operational relationships with barley producers (primary cooperatives, unions, farmer leads, farmers’ loan groups, farmer service centers, commercial farmers, inputs suppliers and relevant stakeholders engaged in malt barley value chain) for promoting the growth of malting barley. In close collaboration with the barley procurement manager, (s)he supports producers in malting barley production, procurement, collection and transport to the selected warehouses, assess the needs and organize the training of producers to enable them supply good quantity and quality malting barley to the malt factory located in Addis Ababa.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES