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Key Responsibilities (But not limited to):

Crop Management:

• Delivers strategy including financial, outputs, recoveries, yield, reporting frequency and quality measures, ensuring sector remains operational and financially viable
• Manage work schedules, training, monitoring / verification, KPI’s and accountable systems to various Management teams
• Identify weaknesses, strengths, strategy and action plans for each Agronomy Department ie Crop, People, Environment, Financial and Data
• Assists with pre-season planning for annual cropping program ensuring targets are met

Operations Management:

• Maintains an overview of the organisation structure / job positions, recommends changes
• Ensures staff performance is measured through performance appraisals, training and development identified, and addressed via the Human Resources Department
• Oversees staff disciplinary matters, arranges for the required action to be taken, approve leave
• Manages upcountry warehouses for efficient storage and security of inputs and tobacco, discusses problems relevant management
• Develops monthly resource use and expenditure reports and review work plans
• Maintains and/or supervises staff to maintain all documentation, records, files, and documents in a timely and professional manner and ensure that all resource transactions are accounted for
• Ensures the security of all Project resources at all times by stringent monitoring and follow up and documentation
• Manages all inventory and assets of the company and maintain proper records, and conduct monthly inventory updates and reports
• Manage, monitor and verify all functions of Marketing and logistics through line Managers.  

Resource Management:

• Financial controls of operational budgets
• Supervises operations at all levels and provide necessary support to ensure that targets are met
• Manages the implementation of all programs as directed by the Director of Agronomy
• Works closely with the Logistics Manager ensuring that all Market centre procedures are adhered to and frequently verified

Communications Management:

• Prepares and submits all reporting documents required by the Director – weekly, monthly operations and production reports, activity reports
• Conducts meetings with Executive Management and all Divisional Managers on a regular basis and maintains records of outcomes and actions
• Maintains strong communication links with Managers through a viable network and feedback system
• Form working relationships with other agencies in the area to coordinate activities where necessary
• Compiles quarterly and monthly crop reports as and when required by deadline
• Assists in the implementation of the plan of action, participates, reviews achievements and constraints, and provides feedback accordingly
• Develops a team approach with good working relationship with all subordinates within his region ensuring a disciplined approach to work
• Ensures time lines of required operational procedures are kept, notify management of irregularities

Cooperative Activities:

• Guides subordinates in the standardisation of pre-contract issues for Regions, and ensures that these are submitted to the relevant area
• Guides and liaises with line subordinates on how to handle Unions on Tobacco farming contracts
• Analyses Union problems, proposes solutions and reports on the concerns
• Monitors upcountry inputs distribution, bookkeeping, monthly during period of inputs distribution
• Monitors debt recovery through rationing sales of green tobacco by the different primary societies, data processing and analysis

Safety Health Environment:

• Checks that employees observe safety measures and reports substandard acts and non compliance
• Ensures the area first aider and SHE representative are available and doing their duties accordingly
• Identifying hazards in his/her area and reports to the SHE coordinator, ensures monthly SHE meetings
• Checks implementation of safety measures by all workers and reports all near misses and accidents in his area to SHE coordinator
• Ensures that his/her subordinates are conversant with the emergency evacuation procedure, that safe working skills are taught where required and ensure any new employee is well versed on fire drill requirements, including evacuation procedure
• Accidents are to be correctly investigated and reported and that corrective action is taken
• Ensure that all bins with separated wastes are dumped correctly into the skips where wastes are kept before taken to the dump site
• Decides how to manage the Field Operations to ensure that the Agronomy Department remains viable, and staffing adequately meets the goals and objectives of the Department

Key Qualifications (But not limited to):

• Degree/Diploma in Agriculture, Agronomy, Crop Science, Botany or related field support essential
• Proven experience in agriculture, tobacco specifically of at least 5-7 years
• 5 years in a Senior Management level

Should you be an expatriate willing to relocate to Tabora looking for new opportunities in a growing leader within the Tobacco industry, please don't hesitate to apply for this vacancy.