Consultant Field Liaison Manager at TUME Middle Africa Consulting Limited

GENERAL JOB DESCRIPTION:

This position has the overall responsibilities of:

• Create and implement agricultural ingredients sourcing strategies from farmers, farmer groups, societies and cooperatives that meet international standards, are innovative, cost-effective and incorporate the growing complexities and challenges within the industry.
• Achieve quality and volume sourcing targets based on business needs for organic and industrial grade tomatoes, diverse spices, seed fruits and other agricultural produce.
• Build, engage and establish sustained relationships with key farmers, village buying agents, brokers, societies, cooperatives and others in the counties of operation to assure consistent supplies.
• Manage the sourcing process, stakeholders and supply chain effectively and efficiently – within budget and policies of the company.
• Support the Internal Control Systems (ICS) department to achieve and maintain all local and international certifications and ensuring zero non-compliance to those certification standards.

EDUCATION AND COLLATERAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Procurement, Supply Chain or a relevant business field with ten (10) or more years’ experience sourcing and specifically managing performance & productivity of farmer organizations. Knowledge / experience in tomato and fruit purchasing is an added advantage.
• Excellent understanding of farmer organizations, sourcing and procurement techniques as well as dexterity in ‘reading’ the market. Experience with tomato growing farmers and Kenya’s tomato value chain will be an added advantage.
• Understands local and international certifications and how to practically manage them.
• Ability to effectively communicate with farmers and management clearly, accurately and articulate the company’s vision and get farmer buy-in to enable sustained supply.
• Self-starter. Result- oriented with strong analytical, and outstanding strategic, supervisory, leadership, interpersonal, mentoring, negotiation, decision making, communication and organization skills.
• IT Skills: MS Office particularly Word, excel and PowerPoint.