Job Description

Sucafina is a leading sustainable “farm to roaster” coffee company, with a family tradition in commodities that stretches back to 1905. Today, with more than 1046 employees in 32 countries, the Group is a leading player in the world of green, roasted, instant coffee merchanting.

As per our company’s need to hire a capable, energetic, and driven Crop Survey Officer for our Research Department, with a go-getter attitude, we are extending this opportunity to come join the Sucafina Family. If you exhibit the following Attributes and Requirements, please send us your CV through Ethiojobs.

Personal Qualities:

An individual who is ambitious, driven, and passionate who embodies our company’s values which are:

• Adaptability – Be quick & reactive to market evolutions
• Entrepreneurship – See challenges as opportunities to be profitable
• Expertise – Know your job, be brilliant in execution, and strive to continuously learn
• Humility – One team, one family, no arrogance, no rock stars
• Integrity – Deal always fairly and honestly
• Passion – Make your work challenging and fun

Responsibilities and duties:

Summary of the Role: Crop Production and Supply & Demand Analysis

• Structure and analyze all relevant coffee supply & demand data
• Conduct fieldwork through crop surveys and regular farm visits
• Collect all production-related information including yields, acreages, costs of production, pests, and disease levels
• Structure, consolidate, and analyze all relevant crop survey data
• Provide sound analysis and ensure efficient and timely communication with analysts
• Establish clear, objective, and efficient reports
• Coffee weather monitoring and forecasting
• Ensure close stakeholder linkage and feedback
• Customer focus - Build close relationships with stakeholders and ensure alignment
• Proactive in driving processes and tasks to achieve results.
• Ability to work with people
• Able to work in a multicultural environment
• Strong team orientation as key to factor access
• Able to create and develop resourceful ideas and solutions, to improve and process, information in the area of work
• Task ownership and responsibility of own decisions and actions.
• Organized methodical and structured working approach.
• Ability prioritizes tasks, follows up, meets deadlines, and manages expectations.
• Open-minded with a positive attitude towards change.
• Professional conduct and overall adherence to work ethics.
• Perform other jobs as required.

Technical Competences and Key results expected:

• Articulate research findings from fundamental market analysis
• Support overall research functions with market data and insights
• Knowledge of agronomic practices and techniques
• Properly designed crop surveys and follow up visits
• Timely and sound crop and scenario analysis
• Good communication with the team
• On-time, relevant, complete, and accurate data collection and reporting
• Valuable recommendations trading decisions

Duty Station: Primarily based in the SUCAFINA Addis Ababa office with regular field travel to Areas of operation.

Job Requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, or related fields.

Experience:

• Mid Level (2+ years in the commodity industry with International exposure).

Other knowledge, additional competencies:

• Excellent skills in English & Amharic (writing, speaking, listening)
• Knowledge of other local dialects is an additional asset
• Competence in Computer literacy including but not limited to Data encoding, utilizing online research tools, and other web-based platforms are required
• Excellent skills in using Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook); experience in using MS Teams is an advantage
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in an intercultural team
• Very good skills to communicate with actors on different levels and different organizations
• Ability to work under stress and respond to tight deadlines
• Understanding of commodity crop cycles and the key drivers of production
• Technical aptitude to explain agronomic findings to a lay audience
• Flexibility and preparedness to perform a changing array of duties according to the needs of the Company
• Preparedness to work with a high requirement of time, travel, and output pressure

How to Apply

Interested and qualified applicants can send their CV through : www.ethiojobs.net