Raw Material Officer - Winnipeg Canada

Raw Material Officer - Winnipeg Canada

JOB PURPOSE AND REPORTING STRUCTURE :

To oversee the varietal selection program for MENAMEX, including local trial management and synthesis. Communicating this to procurement, processing, sales, and external customers. Assisting the barley procurement and malt sales by leading the sustainability farming and low carbon projects.

INTERNAL LIAISIONS : MENAMEX Procurement, Processing and Commercial Sales and MEG staff.

EXTERNAL LIAISONS : Universities, Institutes, associations, industry breeding companies, consultants, and contractors, Brewing and Distilling Customers.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

VARIETAL SELECTION PROGRAM

• Oversee and manage the varietal selection and monitoring program.
• Ensure Commercial Sales Force, Processing and Procurement strategies are fully aligned on varietal options regarding their agronomic and functional characteristics.
• Identify and forecast key variety market share for open market origination and for sales force forecasting.
• Manage the trials data in Fairview database (implementation, handling extraction)
• Set the direction for the Barley Breeding lines to move through approval, their management, and potential sales.
• Map, evaluate and drive the local trial networks and their functioning where applicable.
• Monitor, synthetize and communicate internally on external trials networks.
• Communicate and maintain relationship with BU stakeholders and Group counterparts.
• Act as the Functional Variety Expert for the sales team and origination team when interacting with external customers.
• Support the local teams in the supply chain on competitive intelligence of barley and other field crops with short- and long-term views.

LEAD SUSTAINABLE SOURCING PRACTICES

DESIGN & SUPPORT LOW CARBON FARMING / REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE

ADDITIONAL DUTIES

GENERNAL

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS :

Malteurop is an Equal Opportunity Employer