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Africa Coffee Program Lead
Type of contract: Permanent contract
- Master Degree in Agriculture, Management, or equivalent
- 10 years experience as agriculture project manager in sustainability operations with strong project management and facilitation/engagement skills
Position Summary
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As a Coffee Program Lead your main role is to lead the Nespresso coffee sustainability and sourcing in Asia and Africa. Your main mission is the following:
- Define strategy for the regions and implement
- Oversee the Nespresso sustainable quality coffee sourcing
- Manage stakeholders for trust and efficiency
A day in the life of…
Sustainable Quality Coffee Sourcing:
- Oversee the sourcing of coffee volume from the region including financial and physical traceability
- Ensure the quality of field data capture in the management system F.A.R.M.S
- Identify key risks and opportunities: Volume and price during harvest, labour conditions, Deforestation, Biodiversity, cluster development, COVID
Strategy and field implementation:
- Manage direct and indirect teams located in Kenya and in each country under management responsibillity
- Translate the global impact strategy into a regional and country specific strategies.
- Establish long-term roadmaps, targets, technical assistance, projects and interventions, training (suppliers, farmers and agronomists)
- Design local projects and interventions to address root causes of key local challenges
- Guarantee the good execution of all activities in direct connection with suppliers
- Contribute to the HQ consolidation on progress vs. strategy, agronomy expertise, key challenges management (Coffee sourcing, Child labour, Gender equality, Living income, Biodiversity…)
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What will make you successful
Skills/Competencies/Attributes:
- Team management skills
- Proven track record in delivering results by working with cross-functional teams
- Communication skills to engage with local partners and global organisations
- Ability to work in a multinational and multistakeholder environment
Education
- Master Degree in Agriculture, Management, or equivalent
Experiences:
- 10 – 15 years experience as agriculture project manager in sustainability operations with strong project management and facilitation/engagement skills
- Strong understanding of the African and Asian context & in purchasing & demonstrated on-the-field experience in rural development projects