Green Way Farms PLC (Brand Name: GreenPath Food) is currently seeking a professional, high-performance individual to serve as Supply Chain Officer.
This individual will have the unique opportunity to help shape the future of a young, environmentally, and socially-conscious agriculture business in Ethiopia, one of Africa’s most promising economies. Ideal candidates have a passion for East Africa, a dedication to environmental sustainability, and the ability to successfully support the company’s horticulture production efforts as the company scales over the next 5 years
Green Way Farms is a specialty food company that produces premium, organic food products through a network of smallholder Partner Farms. Green Way products are exported to high-end buyers across Europe and the Middle East.
The company currently operates from its Butajira Production Area with a team of 30+ professional staff, 50+ contracted laborers and 100+ Partner Farms. Green Way operates its flagship Farmer Service Center with a cold store, nursery, and packhouse facilities in Butajira, SNNPR.
As a young, but rapidly growing company, Green Way aspires to become East Africa’s largest smallholder-grown food company, and a premium brand recognized globally for its positive social and environmental impact. To achieve this vision, over the next 3 years Green Way plans to dramatically scale its Butajira operations, expand to multiple new geographies across Ethiopia and grow its product portfolio to include new and lightly processed food products.
Mission of Role
The mission of the Supply Chain Officer role is to provide most effective and efficient procurement, procurement process and procedures for quality goods and services, establish high quality supply chain and logistics systems for outputs, minimize product losses & perishability and conduct analysis that improves supply chain efficiency on both Inputs to farms and Outputs from farms.
Responsibilities & Activities
Green Way is a growing startup that requires flexibility and self-initiative from its team. As a result, all Green Way team members are expected to provide active support across departments. In addition to other occasional responsibilities, the key activities and corresponding outcomes for this role include:
Input Procurement
Logistics
Required Experience
Preferred Experience
Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Reporting
The position reports to the Supply Chain Manager
Location
This position is based full time in Addis Ababa with frequent travel to Butajira, SNNP Region
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