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.