Junior Agronomist (Supply Chain) at ReelFruit

ReelFruit (www.reelfruit.com) is the largest dried fruit processing, marketing and distribution company based in Nigeria. ReelFruit converts Nigeria’s abundant supply of tropical fruits that would have gone to waste into delicious snacks. We are on a mission to delight our customers with healthy snacks, and launching innovative processed fruit products. We retail a range of dried fruit snacks across over 400 locations in Nigeria and have exported our products to Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and Belgium. We also retail on Amazon.com. ReelFruit is headquartered in Lagos with regional offices in Abuja and Port Harcourt.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Junior Agronomist (Supply Chain)

Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The ideal candidate would be responsible for to managing the upstream supply chain operations of our entire value chain.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop better planting, cultivation, and harvesting techniques, and solve problems for stakeholders (farmers).
• Research and promoting agricultural strategies to improve farmers’ productivity within the supply network
• Visiting fields to monitor field agents and oversee farm activities
• Testing samples for nutritional deficiencies, diseases, or other changes.
• Assisting with raw material sourcing, testing, and selection.
• Keeping detailed records regarding field agents, farmers, crops, and samples.
• Generating reports and presenting findings to manager, clients, or other interested parties.
• Conducting training on products and techniques through educational presentations.
• Managing teams of field agents, farmers, and scientists while conducting field visits or laboratory work.
• Developing planting and irrigation schedules, budgets, and timelines.
• Forecast, budget, and procure raw material volumes and specifications
• Generate purchase orders for suppliers and accurately collate invoices to process payments
• Track all orders, purchases, and delivery logistics
• Oversight of all purchase and service contracts to ensure the company’s interests are protected.
• Conduct himself/herself both professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to the company
• Purchase goods ensuring the optimum price / quality ratio on the market
• Monitor the supply to meet delivery deadlines always
• Ensure that all purchases are done by following the financial plan, cash forecast/budgets
• Anticipate the supply activities related to projects and convey them to the purchaser on time.
• Participate in project procurement plan of the company
• Provide technical support on supply chain management
• Support in managing the Field agent’s and farm management activities
• Monitor team performance to upskill team where necessary
• Monitor suppliers’ performance
• Manage interdepartmental and external communications
• Manage supply chain database / dashboards efficiently
• Update purchase/supply records and generate real-time reports on a weekly / monthly / quarterly / annually.

Educational Qualification / Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Agronomy, Agricultural Sciences, Agric Extension Management, Crop Science or related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience as an agronomist or plant field agent in food processing.
• Proficiency with MS Office suite and diagnostic scientific software.

Application Closing Date
5th April, 2022.