Manage planning, strategy and production of seed for a company.
Tasks
- Manage company seed production areas
- Manage production staff in each location, providing direction to each farm manager
- Negotiate and coordinate grower contracts for other organisations
- Negotiate and coordinate contracts for processors to process, bag and deliver seed
- Identify new production areas, ensuring production supply
- Manage production of high quality seed in budgeted quantities for domestic, and international markets
- Oversee parent seed function, ensuring budgeted levels of parent seed are maintained
- Manage divisional budgets and plans
Personal Requirements
- excellent communication skills
- work unsupervised
- work as part of a team
- like working in rural industry
- organisational skills
- computer skills
- good negotiation skills
- problem solving skills