Job Overview

This position will be responsible for quantity and quality in selecting and purchasing beans, maintaining sustainable relationships with fermenters/pod farmers, ensuring Marou has the best cocoa beans for the APAC region. Support the implementation of sustainability cacao development projects and strategies in terms of agronomy specialty in cacao trees.

Responsibilities

Cacao bean selection and purchasing

• Responsible for quality in bean selection/ purchasing (based on Marou Internal Standard) for APAC region.
• Responsible for quality in improving fermentation processes (Giving advice for Fermenters/farmers based on Marou Guideline)
• Responsible for good practices of pre-fermentation process to ensure the best fermentation.
• Annual fermentation training to suppliers to reach the standard quality of beans.

Cacao Sourcing Development

• Survey and update the bean supply and market for the APAC region
• Survey, expand, discover new potential pod farmers/ fermenters/ areas of cacao
• Evaluation current practice, productivity, farming issue based on Internal Guideline / expert advice.

Relationship management

• Maintain and develop the relationship with Suppliers/fermenters/ pod-farmers
• Well management of cacao network from farmer to fermenter.
• Coordinate with related departments to participate in projects to develop cacao beans
• Solid communication with and provide support to trainer/ expert (if any)/ Line Manager

Contract/policy execution

• Responsibility for execution of purchase contracts, bonus policies
• Solid communication with, and/or provide support to finance and logistics team

Sustainability Development

• Support for implementation of sustainability cacao development projects and strategy in terms of agronomy specialty in cacao trees, and quality for cacao bean fermentation.
• Understand the risks of quality variation and proactively solve the issues raised regarding quality and farmer relationships.
• Living income follow up and analysis for the whole APAC region for the next step of sustainable program.
• Cooperate with Technical Advisor team for training farming practices.
• Participate in the cacao traceability project by delivering training to fermenters on the use of mobile applications and ensuring the maintenance of the system platform – FA mapping by Traceverifier

Other tasks assigned by Manager/Head of Department.

Requirements

• Graduated from University majoring in Food Technology, Biotechnology, Agriculture, Economic
• 2-5 years of experience working in the agriculture field and 2 years of experience working in Supervisor position.
• Sensory ability is an advantage
• Willingness to travel as required
• Ability to communicate in English is good
• Proficiency in MS Office (word, powerpoint, excel,...)
• Good communication & negotiation skillsTeamwork skills
• Honest, responsible, creative and innovative, adventure.
• Working time: Monday - Friday

Working location: Binh Chieu Industrial Park, Thu Duc City, HCMC.