Area Field Production Coordinators – 2 Posts at Bayer
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Area Field Production Coordinators – 2 Posts at Bayer
Area Field Production Coordinators
Bayer
The role coordinates the execution of commercial seed production activities which includes SAP Grower Accounting maintenance, Velocity/ Scouts / Kinexis maintenance, contracting, planting, detasseling and harvesting operations.
Key account relationship management of Tanzania’s main established seed producers and ensuring 97% grower retention rates are maintained.
Location: Mbeya and Songea, Tanzania
Key Tasks & Responsibilities:
Lead building and maintaining a reliable and sustainable grower base, to ensure reliable supply of commercial seed to the commercial team within Tanzania.
Lead analytics for field processes, to ensure the correct decisions for planning and liaise closely with Production Manager, Field and Plant Management teams.
Lead the planning and coordination of production activities, Grower contracting, Planting, Detasseling and Harvesting and distribution across the geographies.
Lead HSE efforts according ISO45001 standards focusing on legal compliance and identifying safety risks applying the HIRA methodology.
Lead the development, update and compliance with quality assurance standards and management system set by ISO9001:2015
Create, manage and continual tracking and compliance of the Operational budgets.
Identify and deploy operational improvement, tracking and best practices and processes to continually seek improvements in reliability and cost efficiencies.
Promote and coordinate the Velocity data management tool, to effectively analyze and utilize field data to manage productions effectively. This extends to new technology deployment.
Manage Velocity and SAP data, to ensure correctness for contracting and field processes.
Utilize onePSS as a platform to implement best practices, for example, Visual Management to track Operations KPI`s on Tier 2 and 3 meetings.
Promote and implement best practices with focus on Quality and Reliability to improve them every year.
Key Working Relations:
Procurement
Field Supervisors
Functional leads, Field and Plant Ops
Global implementation networks and task forces
QMS management
Engineering and Maintenance teams
Site functional leads, QA, SPI, CSO, Pre-commercial
Growers and other field contractors
Qualifications & Competencies:
Minimum a diploma or bachelor degree in agronomy or 10 year experience in seed production.
Fluent in English
MS Office software (Excel, E-mail, Word, Project etc.)
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Results focused with ability to work on own initiative
Strong teamwork development capability (flexibility to work across the areas and positively influence others)
Establish clear direction
Effective and timely decision making
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