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  • Business Analyst

    Business Analyst

    About the Role
    Advanta is seeking a well-rounded and skilled Business Analyst who will be responsible for the implementation and support of business analytics across the Africa & Middle East region.This is an exceptional individual with a proven track record of delivering results and is comfortable working collaboratively across a diverse team and is adaptable to a very dynamic and fast paced environment.
    Duties and Responsibilities

    Providing analytical support to the region through market surveys, analysis of data and presenting the same in required formats.
    Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
    Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports.
    Working on Long Range Plans in liaison with key stakeholders across the organization
    Providing pricing analysis in coordination with the Commercial team and the finance function
    Help in the preparations of budgets in coordination with Finance Lead and functional Leads
    Working closely with the commercial team to collate market information, analyse market trends and present these in agreed upon formats
    Sales tracking against sales plan and presenting these to the team in agreed format and frequency
    Prepare Presentations for recurring organization meetings eg monthly S&OP and other ad hoc meetings
    Put together agenda, minutes and action plans for all meetings and ensuring follow up of
    actions arising from such meetings
    Provide support to various other reporting requirements as required by A&ME/Global office
    Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing insightful reports.
    Managing projects, developing project plans, and helping in monitoring performance.
    Create structure and uniformity on data and templates.
    Updating, implementing and maintaining procedures.
    Any other responsibilities as per the business requirements of the A&ME region

    Qualifications & Experience

    A bachelor’s degree in business or related field or an MBA.
    A minimum of 5 years of experience in business analysis or a related field.
    Project management skills and the ability to multi-task to deliver deadlines
    Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
    The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
    Excellent documentation/cataloguing skills.
    Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.
    Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
    Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
    Ability to work independently and with others
    Ability work with new tools and systems
    Working knowledge of SAP

    Apply via :

    wanjeri.obi@advantaseeds.com

  • Technology and Development Manager

    Technology and Development Manager

    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.