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Our client is a world-leading soft commodity services group specialising in Coffee, cocoa, and cotton with operations in over 40 countries. The role will involve working closely with the Cocoa Procurement Manager, with a focus on areas in Africa and will oversee the sourcing, quality management and supply chain of cocoa beans from various origins. The role involves building and maintaining relationships with their procurement, shipping and supply chain teams on the ground in their origin countries, both internally and externally. The role will also be based in London or West Africa Origin. The main responsibilities will be:
- Establish, enhance and maintain key supplier relationships in several African origins.
- Assist in information gathering, supplier selection, contract creation and execution
- Assist in managing internal bean sourcing teams in origin and price risk management
- Help improve local processes and procedures to maintain profitability, high quality standards and operation excellence.
- Help to develop a robust quality monitoring system from origin to factory above and beyond
- Manage quality staff on origin
- Maintain high standard of quality testing
- Assist origins in developing budgets including the establishment of fixed and variable cost calculations for daily pricing.
- Development and maintaining of pricing tool across origins
- Promote, monitor, and strict implementation of EUDR requirements.
- Track customer commitments for origin programmes and coordinate execution in origin
The successful candidate will have a Bachelors or Master Degree in a business or finance related subject or equivalent experience. A minimum of 1 year previous experience working in origin/developing countries within a commodities/agricultural or supply chain environment. Someone who has a strong interest in sustainability, agronomy and regenerative agriculture. You will also have strong communication skills and demonstrated experience in dealing with budgets and tight deadlines. Have the ability to work within developing country cultures, be a self-starter and able to build working relationships. Fluent in English and French language will be an advantage.
