Job Tittle: Market Manager Agriculture Development
Level: L5
Reports to: Market Category Manager Agriculture Development Africa
Location: Ghana
About the Function:
Our Procurement team are innovators, always seeking new ways to help our business, people and much-loved brands thrive. We're dedicated to improving the £12 billion+ we spend every year, building brands of premium quality, while crafting balanced value and growth. Together, we're crafting the services, partnerships and innovations that meet our future needs.
Our procurement team delivers outstanding end-to-end value across our supply chain and offers innovative supplier solutions. Together, we're driving our 'Society 2030: Spirit of Progress' plan across suppliers and agency partners to build a more balanced world. Wherever you choose to carve your career, we'll support and encourage you in our inclusive culture.
Want more jobs like this?
Get Science and Engineering jobs in Accra, Ghana delivered to your inbox every week.
About the role:
- Develop and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies.
- Ensure security of local raw material supply (quality on time in full).
- Source raw materials in the most cost-effective manner at the same time keeping a good eye on quality.
- Analyse and calculate costs of procurement and ideal productivity opportunities.
- Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power of suppliers as well as devise negotiation strategies and secure profitable long-term deals.
- Identify and mitigate local raw material sourcing risks inclusive of short, mid, and long-term horizons.
- Discover and partner with trustworthy vendors and suppliers including diverse suppliers as well as devise strategies to develop/empower the suppliers.
- Deploy digital farming platforms to ensure smallholder farmers have accurate records and traceability is guaranteed in our sourcing regions.
- Implement regenerative agriculture projects in-country, working collaboratively in cross-functional teams in an agile and delivery-oriented manner.
- Organize and execute farmer engagement workshops, GAP trainings and field visits to ensure our local smallholder farmers are well equipped to be profitable in their operations.
- Map all the key stakeholders, develop and implement robust stakeholder engagement plans.
Flexible Working Statement:
Flexibility is key to our success. From part-time and compressed hours to different locations, our people work flexibly in ways to suit them. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported from day one
Diversity statement:
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please ensure that you capture this information when you submit your application.