Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
Job Overview:
This position will be responsible for quantity and quality in selecting and purchasing beans, maintaining sustainable relationships with fermenters/ pod-farmers, and ensuring Marou has the best cocoa beans.
Responsibilities:
- 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 the 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 of current practice, productivity, and farming issue based on Internal Guidelines / 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 providing support to trainer/ expert (if any)/ Line Manager
Contract/policy execution:
- Responsibility for the execution of purchase contracts, and bonus policies.
- Solid communication with, and/or providing support to the finance and logistics team
Sustainability Development:
- Support for implementing sustainability cacao development projects and strategy regarding agronomy specialty in cacao tree, and quality for cacao bean fermentation.
- Understand the risks of quality variation and proactively solve the raised issues regarding quality and farmer relationships.
- Training of farming practices, and 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 the Manager.
