Nutrition and Quality Manager at Olam Agri

Olam Agri is a market-leading, differentiated food, feed, and fiber agri-business with a global origination footprint, processing capabilities, and deep understanding of market needs built over 33 years. With a strong presence in high-growth emerging markets and products across grains & oilseeds, animal feed & protein, rice, edible oils, specialty grains & seeds, cotton, wood products, rubber and commodity financial services.

Olam Agri is at the heart of global food and agri-trade flows with more than 40 million MT in volume traded annually. Focused on transforming food, feed and fiber for a more sustainable future, it aims at creating value for customers, enabling farming communities to prosper sustainably, and strive for a food-secure future.

We are recruiting to fill the position below

Job Title: Nutrition and Quality Manager

Location: Ilorin, Kwara

Job Description

• Olam Agri's IFP Nigeria business is a leading animal feed and day-old chick producer, providing quality affordable poultry and freshwater fish feeds, and chicks to farmers.
• We operate one of Nigeria’s largest poultry feed mills and day-old chick facilities in Kaduna state, and in Kawara state, we operate a state-of-the-art aqua feed plant, along with a poultry feed mill and a soy crush facility.
• We have attained a market Leadership in all the verticals. IFP business is focused on driving the livestock business opportunity in Nigeria with continuous investments into the sector.

Key Deliverables

• The incumbent should have a wide knowledge about the nutritional and quality specifications of different raw materials used in animal feeds.
• Knowledgeable about the quality control system used in the animal feed industry (NIR calibration, wet chemistry proximate analysis, mineral analysis, process control, and in-market quality).
• Well experienced in the least cost animal feed formulations with a strong understanding of poultry, cattle (beef & dairy) and small ruminants (sheep & goat) formulations. Experience in Aqua feed would be advantageous.
• Implement and monitor the quality assurance policies and standards
• Maintain expertise in nutritional trends, and keep up-to date with regulatory changes and feed safety.
• Ability to conduct R&D trials in a safe, ethical and reliable manner.
• The incumbent will work closely with production managers, feed mill managers, and farm managers for optimal feed production.
• The incumbent will support the technical and commercial team by providing training, information and services to customers.

Requirements

• The incumbent should have a Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Sciences. A postgraduate degree in animal nutrition is a plus. 
• A minimum of 10 years of work experience in nutrition and quality assurance in the feed business is required.
• The incumbent should have very good people management, communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to collaborate and influence a matrix of internal and external stakeholders at varied levels.

Application Closing Date
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