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.

Responsibilities

Cacao bean selection and purchasing

• Responsible for quality in bean selection/ purchasing (based on Marou Internal Standard)
• Responsible for quality in improving fermentation processes (Giving advice for farmers based on Marou Guideline)
• Responsible for good practices of pre-fermentation process to ensure best fermentation.

Cacao Sourcing Development

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

Relationship management

• Maintain and develop the relationship with 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 tree, and quality for cacao bean fermentation.
• Understand the risks of quality variation and proactively solve the raised issues regard to quality and farmer relationship.
• Training of farming practices, fermentation process to reach the standard quality bean.
• 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 Traceverified

Other tasks assigned by Manager/Head of Department.

Requirements

• Graduated from University majoring in Food Technology, Biotechnology, Agriculture
• 1-2 years of experience working in the agriculture field
• Sensory ability is an advantage
• Willingness to travel as required
• Ability to communicate in English is preferable
• Proficiency in MS Office (word, powerpoint, excel,...)
• Good at communication & negotiation skills
• Teamwork skills
• Honest, responsible, creative and innovative, adventure.

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