Job Description
We invites qualified applicants to fill this position.
Terms of engagement: 3 years renewable contract.
Position Brief:
The Union seeks a skilled mill manager with good business decision making ability to carry out milling, grading. quality analysis, farmer training, implementation, budget preparation, marketing, and ensuring maximum mill productivity and profitability.
Duties and Responsibilities
▪ Initiation and implementation of policies, strategies to achieve the coffee mill mission, vision and objectives on administration, costs, human resources and mill operations.
• Ensuring smooth operations in receiving, milling, storing, and dispatching coffee parchment, while also planning manpower to expedite the delivery of coffee to the mill.
▪ Building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders in milling, such as regulators. buyers. and suppliers.
▪ Securing the premise and its coffee stocks and insuring against potential loss and deterioration.
• Ensuring strict adherence to quality, health, and safety guidelines to prevent accidents and meet environmental quality tests.
Providing technical mentorship and support to managers of primary producer co-operatives to address coffee quality issues.
▪ Collaborate with government agencies, county governments. the Ministry
of Agriculture. and cooperatives to promote the coffee mill's mission through industry initiatives and partnerships.
Skills, Competencies and Experience.
The office holder will he required to have the following skills. attributes and competencies;
1. A bachelor's degree in business-related field, preferably in cooperatives management, agribusiness. accounting/finance, Economics. Business, and administration, and 5 years of senior management experience in a coffee sub-sector.
2. Hold a valid Coffee liquorer License.
3. Good leadership and people management skills.
4. Proficiency in ICT.