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 Ethiopian 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 a Malt Barley Procurement Manager.
Job Summary:
The malting barley procurement manager is in charge to establish an operational team (commercial and technical team, collection points, transportation to temporary storage and to the factory) for promoting the growth of malting barley. He participates to the development strategy in the Regions where the company projects to develop its procurement activities to supply its malting factory located in Addis Ababa. He is assuring the raw material sourcing activities from the out-growers program, primary cooperatives and unions and/or trader to supply the adequate quantities of quality malting barley to the malting factory. He participates in the definition of trade policies of the company for all agriculture related matters.
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