Project Agro Lead

Job brief

Under direction from Company management and Agro lead, support business to identify and implement projects for development of chip-stock and seed value chain. To implement Positive Agriculture agenda as per plan and lead stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Ensure support for identification and implementation of projects for development of Chip-stock, extrude and seed value chains
• Work with Public/Private sector to identify cost efficient solutions for Mechanization and irrigation technologies in Agriculture.
• Provide visibility of policies and respective key unlocks for business and value chains.
• Participate in trainings and other forums showcasing Best Practices and developing its lift and shift to growers in Ethiopia.
• Ensuring designing capability program for teams based on skill matrix and Training Need Analysis
• Lead implementation of Projects/interventions under Positive Agriculture and PepsiCo Positive.
• Work in close liaison with Supply chain team to bring operational efficiency and productivity for function.
• Record analyze and prepare overall agro operations data
• Apart from the above, employee is expected to perform other accountabilities, time to time assigned by the manager.

Requirements

• At least 3 years experience at managerial level with any agribusiness company. 

Skills

• Highly analytic – ability to analyze complex talent data, processes and draw key insights 
• Attention to detail – ability to scrutinize data and plans and identify risks/gaps
• Influencing skills: to be able to create buy-in and support for project management processes and practices and to influence progress against agreed plans.
• Creative skills to design fit for purpose solutions and optimize functional strategy in developing market Strong delivery bias – ability to deliver high quality outputs 
• Proficiency in working with various project management and succession planning methodologies and models

Differentiating Competencies

• Confidence to deliver on large scale projects and engage stakeholders
• Correct and timely collection of projects insight and recommendations for way forward.