Agronomy Manager

Position Title: Agronomy Manager

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Requisition : 41173

Develop priorities and time frames for agronomy research and development objectives. Align agronomy objectives and priorities with Agriculture strategic plan. Devise a strategy for continuous improvement of yield and quality of process potatoes, seed potatoes and sweet potatoes. Oversee dissemination of agronomy technical information. Maintain a high level of innovation. Interact with industry role players, locally and abroad. Represent McCain SA on global platforms and participate when required.

• Determine potato (commercial and seed) and sweet potato trials and allocate responsibilities in order to increase yield and improve quality
• Oversee dissemination of agronomy technical information to potato (commercial and seed) and sweet potato Agriculture teams
• Determine sweet potato multiplication and coordinate production to adhere to raw material plan
• Strategic involvement in CSI projects
• Support South Africa Agriculture team – wherever necessary
• Assist with value adding on Agri Audit App
• Coordinate potato tuber moth, weevil and aphid monitoring projects for mitigation of risks on potato (commercial and seed) and sweet potato production
• Oversee value adding projects e.g. remote sensing, soil moisture monitoring projects, etc.
• Climate reporting
• Identify potential new varieties
• Identify potential new varieties
• Conduct variety adaptation and BMP trials and create BMP guidelines

• Internal:
  Potato Procurement and Supply Managers, Agronomists, Field Services Manager;
  Field Officers, Trials Officers, Global Agronomy Leadership team, Plant Managers, RMI and RMU Managers, QC teams;
  Farm managers;
  Seed Store Manager
• External:
  Farmers, Representatives of seed companies & Input suppliers, Researchers, DAFF registrations team, Agricultural Research Council, Universities

• Education:
  
  MSc Agriculture. Agronomy/Crop Science/Plant Science/Soil science or related field
• Experience:
  
  Minimum 10 years in agricultural science field of which 5 years should be agronomy related, in a crop production and research role
• Preferably registered as a Professional Natural Scientist with SACNASP (Natural Scientific Professions Act 27 of 2003)

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Job Family: Agriculture

Division: South Africa

Department: Delmas Agronomy

Location(s): ZA - South Africa :
Mpumalanga :
Delmas

Company: McCain Foods (S Africa)