Technology and Development Manager at Advanta Seeds

Administrative supervisor: Business Growth Lead – Africa

 

Functional Supervisor: Global TD  Director

Interface: Breeding team, Sales team, Marketing team, Supply Chain, HR, Customers, Regulators, National Research Institutes, scientific professionals etc. 

 

JOB MISSION:

 

Responsible for identifying the opportunity, selecting the suitable products/technologies based on Agro-climatic zones, testing them, positioning of the products&technology in their correct use to make them feasible to the market and registering the products/technologies to facilitate business.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:   – 

 

Designing projects for new product introductions or right positioning of existing products and technologies, aiming to make the production feasible and improve productivity.

 

Identifying the opportunity, selecting the new products based on the agro-climatic zones and testing the new products with scientific experiments.

 

Upon successful evaluation, managing the registration process for crop products and making them available to commercial team by registering them in stipulated time lines.

 

Efficient network relationships with government agencies and product registration regulators / institutes

 

Development of crop testing protocols, design experiments, and effective implementation and evaluation in generating quality data etc.

 

Assessing and analyzing cost reduction and quality gains together with the technical and production areas & extend technical support to commercial team.

 

Developing technical catalogs/package of practices/product instructions/ Tech notes of all products/crops and providing to the commercial team

 

Training of commercial team on technical aspects of products/crops

 

Assisting commercial team in complaint handling

 

Responsible for coordinating regional agricultural fairs, together with sales and marketing departments

 

Coordinating and working closely with the marketing team in developing marketing strategy and communication tools

 

Providing feedback to R&D team based on the observations during testing of products

 

 

EDUCATION

 

• Masters in Agriculture, Agronomy, Agronomic Engineering

 

 

SKILLS

 

• Deep knowledge in technical aspects of  major crops &products

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

4-5 years

 

 

LANGUAGES

 

Fluent English and basic working knowledge of French is an added advantage

 

 

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

 

• Seed management;
• Security Standards and Rules;
• People and project management;
• Protocols development
• Scientific data analysis, reporting and computing skills
• Crop and market knowledge

 

 

 

BEHAVIORAL SKILLS

 

• Focus approach
• Result orientation
• Collaboration and coordination skills
• Assertiveness;
• Pro-activeness/self-initiative
• Attention to details and accuracy
• People and project leadership;
• Strategic thought

Note: Willingness to travel and mobility for moving out.