Bayer
Role purpose
- The role holder is responsible for managing field production activities and process to ensure the achievement of commercial seed hybrid production volume and quality targets
- This includes the sourcing and recruiting growers, providing agronomic support to the growers, and managing the relationship with the growers to ensure the delivery of high-quality seed to Bayer.
- This is an excellent opportunity to work with leading technology and talented cross-functional teams that are driving to deliver the best agriculture products and solutions to farmers.
Key responsibilities and tasks
- Carry out annual grower evaluation to ensure that compliant and high performing growers are retained on the grower register.
- Ensure that field capacity allocations are in line with the country crop plan and implement grower assignments according to the crop plan.
- Contingency planning and sourcing of additional growing capacity in the event of high-volume crop plans.
- Ensure compliance with internal procurement policies and SCCI regulations in the engagement and management of growers.
- This includes registration of growers with SCCI as required.
- Assignment of appropriate grower accounts in SAP and the full management of the SAP grower accounts processes.
- Ensure full adoption of the SI 23 of 2018 of the Plant Variety and Seeds Act 236 in the management of growers and SCCI relationships.
- Supervise land preparation, planting, crop development, detasseling, male removal, dry-downs, harvest, and post-harvest activities to ensure quality and yield volumes are achieved.
- Participate in dispute management with growers.
- Contribute to production performance reviews and improvement planning, and exercise diligence in full implementation of improvement actions.
- Ensure Bayer’s Human Rights fundamentals and ESH fundamentals are implemented in grower operations, and ensure appropriate action is instituted for non-compliance.
Experience, Skills and Qualifications
- Undergraduate degree in agricultural sciences
- Minimum 7 years work experience in seed production management
- Current SCCI Inspector registration
- Demonstrable competence in seed production and seed processing operations
- Must be a holder of a valid driving license
- Must be willing to travel up to 90% of the time