Agricultural Technology Lead
Ingredion
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- Innovation & solution development – Identify, develop solution & technologies into practices to improve waxy & regular cassava yield & productivity. Actively participate in development plan of waxy cassava program. Identify opportunities of technologies that will improve performance of Ingredion’s farmer networks. Capture key technologies and prioritize key practices to adopt at scale, instruct and supervise agronomists on field trials
- Stem multiplication – Establish and oversee the clean stem bank in multiple locations & large-scale production of clean materials to support growth of waxy root production by working through brokers, key growers or other 3rd parties.
- Knowledge & Technical support – Responsible for education section in farmer app & work with Agronomists/ Sustainability officers for training materials (content, poster, infographic image, VDO). Work with internal & external parties to develop training materials. Support agronomists on recommendation of practical solutions to farmers and resolve difficult cases that are beyond ability of individual agronomists. Consolidate and finalize recommendations of practical solutions and broadcast in Farmer app.
- External stakeholder relationship – Represent company in academic forum, develop connections & maintain relationship with academics, authorities, consultants, key advanced farmers
- Safety and Quality System: Responsible for reporting the potential or the risk that might impact the safety of workers or working environment or food safety food safety management systems to upper ordinates or identified persons. Coordinate to analysis root causes, setup corrective / preventive actions and summarize report. Cooperate with implementing Food Quality and Safety Management systems such as FSSC 22000, GHPS, HACCP, HALAL, KOSHER, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, NON – GMO and others according to company policy.
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree or higher degree in Agriculture and/or equivalent experience.
- Minimum 5 years of hand-on work experience in Agriculture business, particularly in crop, bio-stimulant, crop protections, fertilizer, crop production in field crops & fruit crops.
- Minimum of 1-2 years team management is a plus.
- Experience in working with suppliers, customers, farmers, academic with strong stakeholder engagement.
- Technical knowledge training experience.
- Stem multiplication experience.
- Advanced Agriculture Technology experience is advantageous (drone, mechanization, precision agriculture, etc.)
- Working knowledge & experience with cassava is a plus.
- English fluency, both written and spoken.
- Innovation, research oriented, analytical thinking, multi-tasking.
- Self-motivated, agility, can do mindset, proactive working style.
- Driving skill & able to travel alone with high mobility.
- Good project management skill with result oriented.
- Proficient MS office.